The Road to World
War II
APUSH Take Five for Pat Points…
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Some historians believe that the Paris
Peace conference in 1919 was the
beginning of WWII….assess the validity of
this statement.
Foreign Policy in the New Era (1919-1932)
Fragile World Peace
League of Nations
Henry Cabot Lodge
Washington Conference of 1921
Sec. of State Charles Hughes
Five-Power Pact
Kellogg-Briand Pact
European Debt
Dawes Plan
Hoover’s Foreign Policy
European nationalism
Benito Mussolini
National Socialist (NAZI) Party
Adolf Hitler
Benito Mussolini
Adolf Hitler
FDR’s Foreign Policy (1933---)
World Economic Conference
European debts
U.S.-Soviet-Union relationship
Latin America
“Good-neighbor” policy
Inter-American Conference
Isolationism
Father Coughlin & William Randolph
Hearst
Neutrality Acts (1935, 1936, 1937)
APUSH Take Five for Pat Points…
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Why didn’t the League of Nations work?
Take Five for Pat Points
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What were the reasons for the US not
joining the League of Nations? Were we
correct?
Rise of Fascism
The Formation of the Axis Coalition
Japanese aggression
Panay
German aggression in Europe
Appeasement
Austrian invasion
Lebensraum
Sudetenland
Munich Agreement
British Prime Minister: Chamberlain: we have
achieved “peace in our time”
Violation of the Treaty of
Versailles
Jews fleeing Germany
Nazi-Soviet Agreement
Nonaggression Pact
Joseph Stalin
Joseph Stalin
European Expansion (1939-1941)
Germany invades Poland
U.S.S.R. invades Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania
and Finland
Italy invades North Africa and the Balkans
Polish “blitzkreig”
A Divided Europe
Allied powers
Great Britain and its Empire,
France
Axis powers
Germany, Italy and Japan
The “Phony” War
Anticipation…anxiety…nothing…
Preparation along the Maginot Line
“Blitzkreig”
Scandinavia, Denmark, Norway
Low Countries
Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and
Belgium
Outflanking the Maginot Line
German fighter plane
Increased German Aggression
“Blitzkrieg”
The fall of France
Vichy France
Philippe Pe’tain
Dunkirk
Free French Resistance
Charles de Gaulle
Charles de Gaulle’s Free
French
Wounded in WWII
Fleeing Paris
War Destruction
Appeal of Great Britain
Battle of Britain
Winston Churchill
U.S. lifts the arms embargo
U.S. Destroyers
Winston Churchill
Pat Points…
Why did the US enter WWII?
 Who was the “Desert Fox”?
 What was so important to the allies in the
middle east to protect?
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U.S. Public Opinion-Isolationists vs.
Preparedness
Burke-Wadsworth Act
American First Committee
Lend-lease Act
The role of the British Empire
Dominion states come to Great Britain’s aid
Canada, New Zealand, Australia, S. Africa
and India.
Materials and troops for the war effort
The British Empire stands alone
North Africa
Fighting against the Italians
General Rommel
Egypt-protecting the Suez Canal
Fighting against the Germans
General Rommel
Continued German Aggression
Invasion and control of Eastern Europe
Hungary, Romania & Bulgaria
Invasion of Yugoslavia
Sending German troops to Greece
Invasion of the U.S.S.R.
Breaking the non-aggression pact
Operation Barbarossa
“scorched earth policy”
Soviet winter
The Road to War
German expansion
Invasion of the Soviet Union
Submarine warfare
Reuben James
Atlantic Charter
Tripartite Pact
Germans in Stalingrad
The U.S. Enters the War
Japanese Aggression in the Pacific
Attack on Pearl Harbor
Admiral Yamamoto
Attack of Guam, Wake Island, Malaya &
Singapore
U.S. Declaration of War
Japanese internment camps
U.S. Publicity campaign
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto
Japanese “Zero”
U.S. Declaration of War
Off to War
A War on Three Fronts
Europe
Stalingrad
North African Offensive
George S. Patton
General Montgomery
General Rommel
The Pacific
Battle of Bataan
Death March
“island-hopping”
Battle of Midway
Guadalcanal
Dolittle Tokyo Raids
U.S. Tank Division
U.S. “Ace” in WWII—Maj. Richard
Bong=40 “kills”
Gen. Montgomery in N. Africa
Guadalcanal
Mitchell Paige—Congressional
Medal of Honor
Turning point of the war (1943-1945)
Allied offensive in Europe
Casablanca Conference
Air raids
Battle of Kursk
Invasion of Italy
D-Day
The Normandy Invasion
Reconquest of Belorussia
Liberation of France
Battle of the Bulge
U.S. B-17 “Flying Fortress”
The Normandy Invasion
D-Day Troops
General Eisenhower at
Operation Overlord
U.S. Destroying Romania Oil
fields
Plot against Hitler
Gestapo
SS Officers
Hitler sends his sympathies
Other world events
The Death of FDR
President Harry S. Truman
Bringing an End to the War
Allied forces invade Germany
Berlin
VE Day
Hitler’s suicide
Allied offensive in the Pacific
Iwo Jima and Okinawa
Kamikaze
The development of the atomic bomb
Manhattan Project
General Leslie Groves
Albert Einstein
Truman’s ultimatum to Japan
Hiroshima
Enola Gay
Nagasaki
VJ Day
Iwo Jima
“Kamikaze raids”
Atomic Bomb
The Mushroom Cloud
V-J Day-Japan Surrenders
Take Five…
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Was it necessary for Truman to drop
the second bomb on Japan in WWII?
Why or why not?
The American Homefront-A New
Prosperity
Wartime production
Labor shortages
“maintenance of membership”
wildcat strikes
Smith-Connally Act 1943
Fear of inflation
Anti-Inflation Act 1942
Revenue Act of 1942
War Production Board
Donald Nelson
Take Five
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Describe the home front during WWII.
What jobs were women and other
minorities doing? What happened to
the Hispanic population during WWII—
they were deported during the Great
Depression…
Minorities in the War…
Hispanics
Zoot Suit Riots
Braceros
Japanese Americans
Japanese Internment Camps
Chinese Americans
Native Americans
“Code- Talkers”
African Americans
Women in the war
“Rosie the Riveter”
Women in the Military
Decline of the family
“Baby boomers”
“Victory Bonds”
Rosie the Riveter
The Homefront (con’t)
Entertainment and Leisure
Rationing for the cause
Swing clubs, movies
and magazines
Costs of the war
Human causalities
Financial costs
Overall results of the war
Take Five…
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Do you think that you could be convinced
to “break the rules” or harm someone if
someone in authority told you that it was
acceptable?
The Holocaust
Balfour Declaration
Kristallnacht “Night of the Broken Glass”
The Wannsee Conference
Concentration camps
Auschwitz
Resistance, Hiding and Jewish sympathizers
Oskar Schindler
Other Nazi atrocities
Holocaust denial
Auschwitz-”Hell’s Gate”
Nazi “Doctors”
Destroying Evidence
Nuremberg Trials
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16 Doctors were
found guilty
7 convicted to death
Japanese Atrocities
Mass executions (China)
Torture of P.O.W.’s
Bataan Death March
Soviet Atrocities
Torture of Poles
NKVD
Labor Camps