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World War II

World War II. Versailles, June 1919. From left to right: Prime Minister David Lloyd George of Great Britain Prime Minister Vittorio Orlando of Italy Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau of France President Woodrow Wilson of the United States. The Versailles Treaty. Land Reparations

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World War II

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  1. World War II

  2. Versailles, June 1919 • From left to right: • Prime Minister David Lloyd George of Great Britain • Prime Minister Vittorio Orlando of Italy • Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau of France • President Woodrow Wilson of the United States

  3. The Versailles Treaty • Land • Reparations • War guilt • League of Nations

  4. The Versailles Treaty (continued) • German army reduced • Germany barred from having tanks, an air force, or submarines • Occupied DMZ west of the Rhineland Map showing German territory lost and the Rhineland DMZ

  5. The League of Nations Although President Wilson was the driving force behind the creation of the League of Nations, the United States did not join it.

  6. Rise of the Nazis • Germany’s economic woes • Political instability • Fascism • National Socialist German Workers’ Party

  7. Adolf Hitler

  8. The Nazis promoted a view of Germany as surrounded by enemies and threatened on all sides

  9. The Nazis Gain Power Hitler sworn in as Chancellor, 1933

  10. Japan

  11. The Invasion of Manchuria and the “Rape of Nanking”

  12. Italy Dictator Benito Mussolini addresses his followers

  13. The Invasion of Ethiopia Emperor Hailie Selassie of Ethiopia

  14. Germany Rearms German troops march back into the Rhineland, 1936

  15. Building an Axis Signing of Tripartite pact to form the Axis Alliance Hitler and Mussolini Rome-Berlin Axis

  16. The Spanish Civil War Generals Francisco Franco and Emilio Moré, leaders of the coup

  17. Spanish Civil War (continued) Italian soldiers in Spain

  18. New Weapons and Tactics Hitler tests weapons in Spanish Civil War

  19. The Destruction of Guernica

  20. Germany Takes Austria Nazi troops enter Austria

  21. The Munich Conference British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain (left) and Hitler confer at the Munich Conference A weeping Czech woman reluctantly salutes Nazi soldiers as they march into the Sudetenland

  22. Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact

  23. German Advances, 1939

  24. American Foreign Policy, 1932–1941 • Isolationism • Neutrality Acts • FDR • Lend-Lease • The Atlantic Charter Churchill and FDR at sea during the Atlantic Charter talks

  25. Germany TakesFrance • France surrenders, 1940 • The French Resistance A Frenchman weeps as German troops march into Paris

  26. The Battle of Britain A London air raid shelter

  27. The Battle of Britain (continued)

  28. Germany Invades Russia

  29. Japanese Aggression General Hideki Tojo Locations of Japanese forces in November 1941

  30. Pearl Harbor

  31. The U.S. Declares War FDR signs the declaration of war against Japan

  32. The Battle of Midway The USS Yorktown receives a direct hit during the battle of Midway

  33. The Battle of Stalingrad

  34. North Africa

  35. Italy Surrenders Allies enter Rome

  36. The D-Day Invasion U.S. troops wade ashore at Normandy

  37. The Liberation of Paris Paris, 1944

  38. The Battle of the Bulge An American soldier guards German troops captured during the Battle of the Bulge U.S. troops advance through the snow toward the town of St. Vith, Belgium

  39. The Firebombing of Dresden

  40. Germany Surrenders

  41. V-E Day

  42. The Pacific War, 1944–1945 U.S. soldiers raise the American flag after capturing Iwo Jima

  43. Birth of the Atomic Bomb Preparing the atomic bomb to be dropped on Hiroshima

  44. Hiroshima

  45. Japan Surrenders

  46. Total War • Concept of “total war” • Mobilizing the economy • Rationing • Women in the work force • Propaganda • Military tactics Two old women stand amidst the ruins of an almshouse in Berkshire, England

  47. Mobilizing the Economy A worker inspects 1000-pound bomb cases

  48. Rationing and Victory Gardens • Gasoline, coffee, sugar, meat, other goods are rationed • “Victory Gardens” and other measures

  49. Women in the Work Force

  50. Propaganda Journalists interview Tokyo Rose

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