World War II Begins Ch 24.1, p.480. Terms ______________ Appeasement ______________ Dominate Violation.

World War II Begins

Ch 24.1, p.480

Terms

• ______________• Appeasement• ______________• Dominate• Violation

German Path to War

• Hitler tells ppl that Germans need land and can find it to the east – in the USSR.– So that __________________________________

________________________________________.

• Hitler then disregards Treaty of Versailles– Builds Air Force and drafts new army of 500,000

Response

• France, GB and Italy all get upset– Hitler ignores them and marches his troops into

the Rhineland.– Odd…this is a demilitarized zone.

• _____________________________________________________– We call this process “appeasement”

New Alliances

• _______________ become good friends– M wants a new Roman Empire– H wants a supreme Aryan racial state

• ________________ also sign an anti-communist agreement– Essentially saying they are against the USSR

Anschluss! (union)

• In 1938, _______________________ by putting Nazis in charge and having them invite him into Austria.– So much for appeasement.

Appeasement?

• Hitler kindly asks the allies at the __________ _______________ if he can have a part of Czechoslovakia (Sudetenland) b/c Germans live there.– Allies believe this will be his last grab

• Then H attacks the rest of Czechoslovakia.– The time for appeasement is over.– ________________________

Nonagression?!

• _____________________________ ______________________ so he can attack Poland

• Which H promptly does– France and Britain declare war 2 days later.

Japan

• We should have discussed this earlier.• In 1931 ______________ dressed up as

Chinese soldiers and ___________ a railway as a pretense to attacking Manchuria– So they could blame Chinese ppl for the attack– League of Nations investigates– Japan withdraws from LoN

Chiang Kai-shek

• Ignoring Japan’s Emperor, the military leader _________________ kept invading China

• Eventually leading to the ______________ – where more than 100,000 civilians were killed for no apparent reason

New Asian Order??

• Originally, Japan wanted to dominate Asia and attack the USSR with Germany

• But when Hitler makes the _____________ _________ – Japan heads South and attacks China more.

Enter US

• In 1940, the ___________________________ ___________– Preventing oil and scrap iron from the US – Japan gets pissed

• Pear Harbor draws near

Q&A

• What was Hitler’s motivation for German expansion?– __________________________

• Why did Japan want to seize other countries?– _______________

• What was the name of the allied policy of ignoring problems?– _______________

World War II

Ch 24.2, p.485

Words

• ____________• Isolationism• Neutrality• _________• Involvement

Poland Blitz

• Hitler lays a ___________ or “lightning war” on Poland– Panzer divisions and air support– By Sept. 28, 1939, ___________ is split btwn

Germany and USSR

Early Victories

• Germany waits through winter– Then proceeds to blitz Denmark and Norway– France builds a silly defensive wall _________

__________• Germany walks around the wall and destroys France

France

• A temporary German gov’t. is set up called ________________– United States initially responds by hiding• Isolationism is popular and we really want neutrality as

an American public

– FDR starts ____________ the allies anyway, all under the table…of course

Battle of Britain

• In 1940 ___________________ with his Luftwaffe– He targets civilians instead of military bases…• This doesn’t work. But a lot of needless civilian deaths

occur.

Attack the USSR?

• Hitler assumes that GB has not surrendered b/c they are waiting for the USSR– Hitler _____________, the largest nation and

army in the world.– He sends three large units of soldiers – They are all halted as soon as ________ arrives in

1941• Soviet winters…

Pear Harbor

• Also in December of 1941 the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor– The goal was to destroy the US Pacific Fleet and

scare the US out of preventing a ______________ _______________

– Instead Pearl Harbor unifies the US and we decide to enter WWII• Hitler declares war on US directly after Pearl Harbor

Allied Advance

• _______________: England, US and USSR– set aside politics and only focus on military victory

European Theater

• At first Germany was crushing everyone, but the soviet winter and _________________ _________________________.– In N. Africa: General Rommel was defeated by

England– By 1943, Hitler knew things were looking bad

Asian Theater

• Japan was stopped at the Battle of the Coral Sea on May 8, 1942.– Then the US won the Battle of Midway in June– ________________________________

__________________________through the pacific, closer and closer to Japan

Questions

• What brought the US into WW2?– ___________________________________

• What is the German term for a lightning war?– _________________

• Who was the German panzer commander nicknamed the Desert Fox?– __________________

The Home Front and Civilians

Ch 24.3, p. 490

Verbiage

• Mobilization• __________• Blitz• Widespread• Circumstance

Total War Extreme

• WW2 was more extreme than WW1 in terms of:– ___________________________________

__________________________________

USSR

• _____________________________ in battle– Snipers and aircrews

• Out-produced all other nations w/ respect to tanks and artillery

• Extreme ________ problems:– In the 900-day siege of Leningrad citizens were

forced to eat dogs, cats and mice (1.5 M died)

USA

• Super fast mobilization for two front war– Pacific/Europe

• Auto industry goes military• African Americans attacked b/c of racial

tensions– _____________________________________

• Japanese Americans forced into isolation camps in the desert

Germany

• Hitler did not push for a “total war” until it was too late (1942).– Before this, Germany relied on ____________

_____________________________________– This strategy doesn’t work against the USSR

Japan

• Instead of using women to mobilize the war effort, Japan brought in laborers from Korea and China

• By the end, ________ resolved to employ kamikaze fighter pilots, meaning “divine wind”

Bombing

• _____________ Germans attack London nightly

• __________ England/allies cause firestorm in German city

• Japan US destroys ¼ of all dwellings– Using B-29 Superfortresses– Two ___________ at Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Questions

• How did Germany intend to supply their military?– _____________________________

• How was the US two-front war different than Germany’s?– ________________________

• Were minority cultures treated well in the US during WW2?– _________________________________________