Treaty of VersaillesRise of Italian fascismRise of Hitler and the Nazi Party Great DepressionJapanese expansionism Anti-communismAppeasementMilitarismNationalismU.S. isolationismMaps

In Germany, depression, unemployment and hard times led to a dramatic increase in votes

for Hitler and the Nazi Party.Election date Votes in

millionsShare

May 20, 1928 0.81 2.6%

September 14, 1930 6.41 18.3%

July 31, 1932 13.75 37.3%

November 6, 1932 11.74 33.1%

March 5, 1933 17.28 43.9%

Voting for Hitler’s party increased as unemployment rates rose

Appeasement

Appeasement is the act of giving in to an enemy’s demands in hopes of avoiding further conflict.In 1938, Hitler demanded that Czechoslovakia cede the Sudetenland to Germany. He claimed that the German population living there was being mistreated.The British and French prime ministers agreed to Hitler’s demands without consulting Czechoslovakian leaders, in the hopes that this would avoid a war in Europe.

World War Two, 1941-1945

Main Points

• U.S. Entry into Conflict• Impact on Society, Economy,

Politics• Main Events• End of the War

Burning Ships in Pearl Harbor

Yellow = AlliesPink = Axis

Orange = Axis controlled

Cream = Neutral

A Total War

• War Mobilization• Federal Control of the Economy• Westward Shift of people and

industry• Sacrifice and Patriotism• Millions of men to war

Building Support for War• Office of War Information• War as fight for American

Way of Life, freedom• Censorship• Only positive images• http://www.youtube.com/

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War Propaganda

Masculinity and War

Women in Industries• Industries vacated by soldiers• Single & Married• 45% of workers in shipbuilding• Women’s “duty” to work on the “home

front” while men were “away” fighting• High wages, freedom, enjoyment,

personal pride

Rosie the Riveter

Gendered Propaganda

Women = Home = Homefront

African Americans

• Segregated Units• 125,000 into San

Francisco & Oakland• Housing & school

shortages • Segregation in schools

increased

German Expansionism • Two fronts

– Western Europe & France

– Russia• Blitzkrieg and massive

industrial output• Air Raid on England• Control of Northern

Africa through Italy

Allied Successes

• Battle of Coral Sea, May 1942– Pacific Success

• Battle of Midway, June 1942– Overturned J- Supremacy

• Battle of El Alamien, Fall 1942– Northern Africa

• Operation Torch, May 1943– Eisenhower’s invasion

Hitler Weakens

• Turned east and tried to invade Russia

• Stalled for months, winter hit, millions died–August 1942-February 1943

• Hitler pulled out of Russia and lost momentum in war

The End is Near

• Operation Overlord, Summer 1944• Second Western front• Landed in France• Beaches of Normandy• D-Day, June 6, 1944• 2 million participated• Liberated Paris

D-Day June 6, 1944

End of the War• Germany

Surrounded• Island Hopping in

Pacific• February 1945:

Yalta Conference (UKR)– Britain: Churchill– Russia: Stalin– US: Roosevelt

Race and the War

• Home front• Segregated Units• A. Philip Randolph • Fair Employment

Practices Commission

Japanese/American Internment

• Executive Order 9066 on February 19, 1942

• 110,000 relocated to “War Relocation Camps”

• 150,000 in Hawaii• 1944 US Supreme Court

supported it• Over half were US citizens• $1.6 billion in reparations

Holocaust

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Holocaust

–Over six Million killed in gas chambers & concentration camps

–“Final Solution” –U.S. State Department had

information–Anti-Semitism in U.S

End of the War• Roosevelt Died• Poland Sacrificed

to Stalin• Atomic Testing• “Manhattan

Project” • $2 billion = $20

billion today• Trinity Test Site,

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Post-War Situation

• Japan– Truman agreed to dropping two Atomic

Bombs– Hiroshima & Nagasaki, 1945– Nearly 120,000 died immediately

• USSR– Roughly 25-35 million dead– Fear of Germany– Suspicion of the U.S. – Control over eastern Europe

Continued

• World Economy– International Monetary Fund– Investment, loans, economic growth

• World Politics– United Nations– Security Council– Member nations– Debate, conflict resolution

Significance

• Ended the Great Depression• Migration to the American West• New economic opportunities for

Women and People of Color• Brief unity and ongoing racism• Defeat of Nazis and crippled Germany• Destroyed Europe• U.S. and Soviet Union became

superpowers