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When did the Munich Conference take place?
Who are the 3 leaders of the Axis powers?
What was the key water way in North Africa?
Who was the Desert Fox?
What year did the Spanish Civil War start?
What party did Francisco Franco belong to?
On what date did Germany invade Poland
What is the Phony War?
The Global Conflict: Allied Successes
I.
Occupied Lands
A.
Nazi Europe
1.
2.
3.
4.
Occupied lands were an economic resource to be
exploited
Nazis stripped countries of works of art and factories
Slavs, other minorities worked as slave laborers in
German war industries
Nazis took revenge on resistance movements (torture,
murder)
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B.
Nazi Genocide
1.
By 1941, Nazis devised
plans for the “final
solution” (genocide of all
European Jews)
a.
b.
Concentration or “death”
camps built in Poland and
Germany (such as
Auschwitz, Bergen Belsen,
Dachuau)
Jews became slave
laborers, some used in
medical experiments,
others were shot or killed
in gas chambers
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2.
3.
4.
By 1945, over 6 million Jews killed – massacre
became known as the Holocaust
Almost 6 million other “undesirable” people
killed as well
Some Jews rebelled against Nazis, but efforts
were unsuccessful
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5.
Some non-Jews helped hide
Jews from the Nazis, while
others were collaborators,
helping the Nazis hunt down
Jews
a. Vichy France sent 10’s of 1,000s
of Jews to concentration camps
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How were occupied lands exploited by Germany?
How many Jews were killed in the Holocaust?
How many people were killed in the Holocaust?
What was the name of the portion of France that
helped collaborate with the Germans?
What did Eisenhower make local Germans do
when he discovered the concentration camps?
What was the model concentration camp?
What does the phrase, “Arbeit Macht Frei” mean?
Where was this phrase written?
Amon Goeth
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C.
The Co-Prosperity Sphere
1.
Japan created the Great East Asia CoProsperity Sphere
a.
b.
c.
Used the slogan “Asia for Asians” – said they
would help Asians escape western colonial rule
Japan’s goal – empire in Asia
Japan tortured, killed Chinese and other
conquered people, seized food crops, made local
people into slave laborers
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II.
The Allied War
Effort
A.
The Big Three –
FDR, Churchill,
Stalin – 1942 –
agreed to finish
war in Europe
before finishing
war in Asia with
Japan
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1. 1944 – D-Day –
opening of 2nd
front in Western
Europe
a. Stalin thought this
was a deliberate
policy (by Britain,
U.S.) to weaken
the Soviet Union
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B. Total War
1. Britain, U.S. directed
economic resources
into the war effort
a. factories
switched from
consumer goods
production to war
production
b. govt. rationed
consumer goods,
regulated gas
prices + wages
c. war ended
unemployment of the
depression era
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2.
Democratic govts.
Censored press, used
propaganda to win
public support,
limited citizens’
rights
a. Japanese in U.S. +
Canada sent to
internment camps
when govt. saw them
as a security risk
Bugs Bunny
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C.
Women + The War
Effort
1.
Millions of women
replaced men in essential
jobs
a.
b.
Worked in war industries,
staffed offices, served in
armed forces in noncombat roles
European women fought
in resistance groups
against the Axis
Warm Up
• What was the name of the model concentration camp?
• How many people were killed during the holocaust?
How many were Jews?
• What was Vichy France?
• What was the Great Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere?
• Who were the “Big Three”?
• What was D-Day? Who was unhappy with how long it
took to start a second front against Germany?
• What happened to Japanese Americans during WWII?
• Who was “Rosie the Riveter” and what did she
represent?
III. Turning Points
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El Alamein, Egypt – 1942
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British General Bernard
Montgomery stopped Rommel’s
advance in Egypt
U.S. General Dwight Eisenhower
led Anglo-U.S. force from the
west (Morocco, Algeria) –
Rommel’s army trapped in
Tunisia, surrendered in May 1943
III. Turning
Points cont.
B. Invasion of Italy –
1943
1. U.S. +
British troops
landed in
Sicily +
southern Italy,
defeated
Italian forces
one month
later