UNIT 7 CHAPTER 37:
NEW CONFLAGRATIONS
WORLD WAR II
AP World
History Zerbst
WHAT ARE WE LEARNING?
 Road to war
 New technology & tactics
 European theater of war
 Pacific theater of war
 1942
 War crimes
 The Holocaust
 Atomic bomb – Hiroshima & Nagasaki
 Global economic & political shift – age of the
superpowers
WWII JUST THE FACTS
 1939-1945
 61 nations involved
 Axis (Germany,
Italy, Japan
 Allies (GB, France,
Canada, Australia,
New Zealand, USSR,
USA)
 Waged over 2/3 of
earth
 Cost $1.6 trillion (4-5
trillion today)
 55 to 60 million
killed
 6 million in
genocide
 Changed the
balance of power
ROAD TO WORLD WAR 2: STAGE 1 –
AGGRESSION AND APPEASEMENT
1933
 Hitler withdrew from
League of Nations
1935
 Rearmament
 Italy invaded Ethiopia
 France begins
collective security
agreements
AGGRESSION & APPEASEMENT:
CONTINUED
1936
 Troops into the
Rhineland
 Spanish Civil War
(1936-1939)
 Franco – fascist
 Spanish Govt. – Soviet
assistance
AGGRESSION & APPEASEMENT CONT.
1937
 Tojo takeover
 Axis alliance
formalized
 Rape of Nanjing
AGGRESSION & APPEASEMENT CONT.
1938
 Anschluss (union)
 Sudetenland
announcement
 Munich agreement
 Peace in our time
http://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=FO725Hbzfls
ANSCHLUSS: POINT OF VIEW
CZECHOSLOVAKIAN GRAB
CFU – ON WHITEBOARDS
 Name of the policy that allowed Hitler to make
land grabs
 What was the conceptual ideology behind
Hitler’s acquisition of Austria, Czechoslovakia,
and later Poland?
 Name the British politician that signed the
Munich Pact?
 Why did most Germans love Hitler in the 1930’s?
 What was the attitude of Great Britain, France,
and Russia toward Hitler in the 1930’s?
PROPER WAR
1939
 Czechoslovakia
 Lithuania
 Italy invaded Albania
 Sept. 1, Poland
 Nazi-Soviet pact
BLITZKRIEG TIMELINE
 Sept. 1, 1939 Poland
 36 days
 Denmark (April 1940)
 6 hours
 Norway (April 1940)
 62 days
 Belgium (May 1940)
 3 days
 T h e N e t h e r l an ds ( M a y 1 9 4 0 )
 4 days
 L u x e m b o ur g ( M a y 1 9 4 0 )
 1 day
 France (May 1940)
 17 days
 Y u g o sl av i a ( A p r i l 1 9 4 1 )
 11 days
 Greece (April 1941)
 14 days
PROPER WAR 1942
NEW TECHNOLOGY
Radar
Sonar
Jets
Synthetic
materials
Rockets
Atomic energy
Computer science
STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW…
Maginot Line
Vichy France
Battle of Britain
(1940-1941)
Lend-Lease
program
Operation
Barbarossa (June
22, 1941)
MORE STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW…
Pearl Harbor(1941)
Turning points
1942
 Midway – June
 El Alamein – JulyNovember
 Stalingrad – AugustFebruary 1943
D-Day June 1944
Strategic bombing
Hiroshima
CFU - WHITEBOARDS
 What year was the turning point for WWII?
 Was blitzkrieg successful? Why?
 How did new technology make total war more
destructive than in WWI?
 What new group of people were actively
targeted in WWII?
 Where did WWII begin?
 What was the US’s role in WWII prior to Pearl
Harbor?
 What KIND of battle was the Battle of Britain?
 List all the causes of WWII.
STALINGRAD: SEARCHING THE
SOURCES
 Who wrote it?
 How could the date it
was written change
the meaning or value
of the document?
 What is the point of
view of the author?
 What does your
document say?
 Why is your document
an important source of
information?
 How would you use
your document to
prove the following?
 Examine the documents
that follow and analyze
the impacts of World
War Two on world
societies. What political,
cultural, and economic
conditions contributed
to this situation? Was the
Cold War inevitable?
What additional
documents could you
use to assist you in
answering this question?
WAR CRIMES
Japanese
 Civilians
 Comfort women
 POW’s
 Bataan Death March
Germans
 Gestapo
 Nuremberg Laws
 POW’s
HOLOCAUST
6,000,000 dead
Ghettos
Lebensraum
Death/labor
camps
“First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out-Because I was not a Socialist.
Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out-Because I was not a Trade Unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out-Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me--and there was no one left to speak for me.” Martin Niemoller (1892-1984)
STRATEGIC BOMBING
HIROSHIMA/NAGASAKI
BATAAN DEATH MARCH-APPLYING
PRIMARY SOURCE MATERIAL
 Who wrote this?
 Is this a reliable
source?
 What bias does this
source contain?
 What does this
source tell us about
war crimes?
 How would you use
this document to
answer the
following prompt?
 Describe the
political, moral,
and military
rationale used by
the United States to
drop atomic bombs
on Hiroshima and
Nagasaki.
ECONOMIC & POLITICAL SHIFT
Super powers
End of British
empire
Nuclear power
Industrial capacity
Pent-up demand
DID YOU GET IT?
 Road to war
 New technology & tactics
 European theater of war
 Pacific theater of war
 1942
 War crimes
 The Holocaust
 Atomic bomb – Hiroshima & Nagasaki
 Global economic & political shift – age of the
superpowers