Economic and
political trouble in
Europe lead to
FASCISM
FACIST LEADERS
FASCIST governments…
 Lead
by dictator
 Ruled with violence and fear
 Extreme nationalism
 Had a strong military
 Had total control over government
Adolf HitlerGermany
Adolf Hitler
Benito MussoliniItaly
Benito Mussolini
Hideki Tojo-Japan
Tojo
Winston ChurchillGreat Britain
Winston Churchill
Joseph
StalinU.S.S.R.
Joseph Stalin
Churchill, FDR (U.S), Stalin
Yalta
The Holocaust
Kristallnacht
a planned
attempt to
rid the
world of
Jewish
people
Anti-Semitism
a feeling
of hatred
towards
the Jews
Kristallnacht
Germany saw
Jews…

Germany saw Jews as being
“unfit for society”.
They were a problem that had
to be solved
pogroms
killing of Jews in
certain towns as a way
to embarrass, torture
and punish the Jews
Kristallnacht
“The Night of Broken
Glass”
Nazi soldiers destroyed the
stores and synagogues of
the Jewish people
Concentration camps like
Auschwitz and Buchenwald
6 million Jews were killed
1 ½ million Jewish children were killed
Millions of blacks, gypsies,
homosexuals and people with physical
and metal handicaps were killed
Germany Begins
WWII
Invades
Poland
Invades France
Attacks London in the
Battle of Britain
U.S. stays out of
the war…
ISOLATIONISM
U.S is not involved
Bombing of Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor
U.S.
declares
war
against
Japan
Dec. 7, 1941
Internment camps
Japanese-Americans either
served in the army or
were sent to live in
“camps” that
were only for
the
JapaneseU.S. was
afraid of
Japanese spies
Japanese Internment Camps
Turning Point in Pacific
US beats
Japan in
Battle of
Midway
Midway
U.S.S.R beats
Germany at the
Battle of Stalingrad
Germany becomes weaker
and weaker
Turning Point in Western Europe
D-Day
D-Day
Allied forces land to take back
Normandy, France
Women Go to Work
with Rosie the Riveter
Women
took jobs
in the war
factories
WWII women
Harry Truman becomes U.S.
president after FDR dies
Truman gives
the order to
drop the two
atomic bombs
on Japan
Atomic Bomb
Destruction
atomic bomb destruction
Japan
surrenders
ending WWII
Japan surrenders
After the War
Marshall Plan
Provided
money to help rebuild
Europe
Attempted to prevent the spread
of communism
Germany gets split
East
piece is run by
U.S.S.R. and is
communist
Western piece is
democratic
Japan & U.S.
become allies
Democratic government is set up
U.S. and Japan are friends
United Nations
is Created
Organization where countries
can talk about problems and
try to avoid war
United Nations