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While America is in its own time of depression so is Europe after the devastation of WWI The European economy is in shambles and many of the cities have been destroyed by the war. reparations The Central powers are having to pay wartime reparations ( payments to other countries for war cost ) People are largely without hope especially in GermanyTRANSCRIPT
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The Coming War
The Coming War While America is in its own time of
depression so is Europe after the devastation of WWI
The European economy is in shambles and many of the cities have been destroyed by the war.
The Central powers are having to pay wartime reparationsreparations (payments to other countries for war cost)
People are largely without hope especially in Germany
The Coming War In countries like Germany, politicians are trying
to get public support Parties such as the Nazi Party are using strong using strong
nationalistnationalist feelings, corruptioncorruption, and strong arm strong arm tacticstactics to gain control of the government.
ItalyItaly also votes in a political party that pushes a nationalist platformnationalist platform.
The use of nationalistic feelings give these countries something to focus on and a sense of power.
The Coming War While feelings of nationalism is driving
several countries who were ravished by the war, others who remained untouched are still being driven by imperialism (Japan)imperialism (Japan)
Out of these countries will come strongstrong leadersleaders with very definite agendas. The opposing sides will have leaders of equal determination.
Germany, Italy and JapanGermany, Italy and Japan will start the events that will lead to World War II
Dictators & Defenders
Axis PowersAxis Powers
Allied PowersAllied Powers
Dictators & DefendersItaly
Benito Mussolini Italy’s prime minister by 1922, -starts fascism
Fascism—political movement in which government controls society
Italy invades Libya, attacks Ethiopia in 1935
Dictators & DefendersGermanyAdolf Hitler, another fascist leader, rises to power in
1933
Nazi Party is Hitler’s political organization• Hitler promises to strengthen Germany’s
economy and military-heavy war damage payments from World
War I weaken Germany• Hitler stops all payments, builds military• Hitler invades Rhineland in 1935; France and
allies do nothing
Dictators & DefendersJapan• Japan occupies part of China in 1931, U.S.
condemns action• Japan, Germany, Italy ally in 1940 (imperialism)
• U.S. blocks steel to Japan, freezes assets of Japanese companies
• Hideki Tojo, Japan’s prime minister, wants U.S. out of Pacific
Dictators & DefendersEnglandPrime Minister is Winston Churchill who leads
his country in the face of an all powerful German army.
RussiaUnder the dictator Josef Stalin initially makes a
secret pact with Hitler but is betrayed and joins the Allies.
United StatesU.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt led the
country for four terms due to America’s confidence in his leadership
Dictators & Defenders
ChurchillStalin
Roosevelt
WWIIGermany Invades…• Allies unwilling to use force to stop Hitler
from taking more land, try diplomacy instead
• Hitler breaks promises, invades Poland, Britain, France declare war on Germany,
hope Soviet Union will help• Soviet leader Josef Stalin secretly plans to
side with Hitler.
WWII• Germany invades more countries, conquers France in June, 1940• After France, Hitler launches Battle of
Britain• German air force tries to defeat Great
Britain by heavy bombing• Britain withstands bombing, but
desperately needs help
WWIIGermany Invades the Soviet Union• Hitler launches surprise invasion of Soviet
Union, June 1941• Soviets defend Moscow, Leningrad in
long, bloody campaigns• Soviets switch to Allied side, lose 1
million people by 1944
WWII
WWII• Most Americans favor isolationism—staying out
of Europe’s affairs• Americans eventually realize Hitler’s threat;
cannot remain neutral • Lend-Lease Act of 1941 lets Roosevelt lend
allies military supplies • German U-boats sink American supply ships
crossing Atlantic • U.S. unofficially at war • PropagandaPropaganda starts for all countries
PropagandaPropaganda
The DucktatorsThe Ducktators Education for DeathEducation for Death
* Information aimed at influencing the opinions or Information aimed at influencing the opinions or behaviors of large numbers of people. Propaganda often behaviors of large numbers of people. Propaganda often presents facts selectively (thus presents facts selectively (thus lying by omission). Gives by omission). Gives loaded messages in order to produce an emotional rather loaded messages in order to produce an emotional rather than rational response. Designed to change people’s than rational response. Designed to change people’s attitude toward the subject in the target audience to attitude toward the subject in the target audience to further a political agenda.further a political agenda.
WWII Attack on Pearl Harbor• December 7, 1941, Japan attacks naval
base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii• U.S. Pacific Fleet stationed there; 2,300
killed, 19 ships destroyed• Congress declares war on Japan one day
after Pearl Harbor• U.S. leaders decide to enter Europe first,
wait to fight in Pacific
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WWII America enter the war in Africa and drives
Italy and Germany out of Africa before entering Europe(1942).
Allied forces next attack and defeat Italy (1943)
Largest armada in history approaches France on D-Day, June 6, 1944
Allies move through France, free Paris push toward Berlin
WWIIVE-Day• Roosevelt dies April 1945, Harry Truman becomes president -by then Allies are close to Hitler, but
he kills himself on April 30• Germany surrenders on May 8, 1945, V-E
Day (Victory in Europe)• Truman turns attention to war in Pacific
WWII The Holocaust• Hitler wants to “purify” German race, remove
Jews from Europe- also wants to eliminate homosexuals, gypsies,
many with disabilities
• “Final Solution”—imprison them in concentration camps and kill them
• Holocaust -Over 6 million Jews killed in camps with an estimated 11 million people killed in camps over 6 years
• The Jewish communities even in the United States had seen discrimination.
WWIIThe Pacific Theater (War with Japan)
Pacific strategy: take islands gradually, “island hopping” to Japan
• U.S. hops toward Japan 1942-1945-also bombs cities, factories, facilities in Japan
• U.S. believes invasion of Japan would take hundreds of thousands of men
WWIIThe Atomic Bomb• Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, August 6, 1945• Truman demands immediate surrender, Japan
refuses, second bomb falls on Nagasaki three days later (over 220,000 combined deaths)
• Second bomb ends war almost immediately
• Japan stops fighting August 14, 1945, V-J Day (victory in Japan)
WWIIThe War’s Impact• More death, destruction in World War II
than in any other war• 20 million soldiers killed, millions of
civilians also dead
Georgia & WWIIAirplanes• Bell Aircraft’s Marietta factory builds B-
29 Superfortress bombers-employs 28,000 at peak production; over 6,000 women work there
Factory in GA due to Roosevelt’s influence to do something for his adopted home.
Georgia & WWIIShipbuilding• German U-boats sink many U.S. cargo
ships at start of war• Savannah, Brunswick shipyards build 447-
foot-long Liberty Ships• Many Georgia men and women leave
farms to work in shipyards
Georgia & WWIITraining Troops in Georgia Georgia and Texas have the most troop
training bases in U.S. Camp Gordon- infantry, tanks, & P.O.W.’s Camp Stewart- Anti-aircraft training Fort Benning-Airborne, officer training
Georgia trains troops at multiple bases and even uses colleges
Georgia & WWIICarl Vinson- Georgia U.S. Congressman
wrote many bills that helped to build the U.S. Navy into the strongest in the world.
Richard Russell- helped to bring war-time opportunities to GA including over a dozen military bases
Carl Vinson
Richard Russell