Unit 12 - WWII

Unit 12 - WWIIHW#8  P. 772-773, 777-782

Answer: P. 773 Chkpt, P. 777 Chkpt, P. 778 Chkpt What was the main idea of FDR's Quarantine

Speech?

Do Now: Describe the state of Europe from the 1920s to the mid-30s.

I. Causes A. Treaty of Versailles

• 1. Germany Punished severely• 2. Italy and Japan did not receive lands

B. Global Depression• 1. Starvation

C. Totalitarianism• 1. Dictators

A. Stalin B. Mussolini C. Hitler

Causes Cont. D. Militarism E. Aggression

• 1. League of Nations weak

• 2. Powers grab territory

F. Appeasement• 1. Munich

Conference

II. War Begins A. Japan invades China 1937

• 1. FDR condemns • 2. Rape of Nanking

B. Germany invades Poland 1939• 1. Nazi-Soviet Non-aggression Pact• 2. Britain and France declare war

C. Isolationism vs. Interventionism

1. Focus on domestic issues• A. Economy

2. Too costly• A. lives• B. WWI wasteful• C. expensive

3. Neutrality Acts• A. No contact with “belligerent nations”• B. 1939 – Cash and Carry• C. FDR policies too pro-Allies

D. Axis Alliance forms 1940

III. US Entry A. Selective Service Act B. Lend-Lease Act C. Atlantic Charter D. Pearl Harbor

E. Homefront changes 1. Industry works to build the “arsenal of

democracy” 2. Women go to work (Rosie the Riveter) 3. War financed by sale of war bonds and

increasing income taxes 4. Hollywood produces propaganda 5. Rationing 6. Japanese Internment (Korematsu v. US) 7. Treatment of minorities

• A. units still segregated

F. Fighting on land, sea, & in the air

1. Fighting ends in Europe first• a. US & Britain liberate France• b. Soviet Union the first to liberate Germany

2. Operation Torch ends war in N. Africa

3. D-Day 4. Island Hopping in Pacific 5. Atomic Bombs Hiroshima &

Nagasaki

IV. Peace A. Various Conferences set up course of

actions for the Allies• 1. Casablanca (unconditional surrender)• 2. Tehran (liberate France)• 3. Yalta

A. divided Germany (4 zones) B. Soviets agree to help vs Japan

• 4. Potsdam A. Nazis trials B. Potsdam Declaration

• 5. San Francisco (UN)

B. Us occupies Japan with MacArthur C. War crimes trials of Nazis

(Nuremburg Trials) and Japanese leaders

V. US Demobilizes A. Inflation B. Strikes break out C. GI Bill passed to help vets D. Taft-Hartley Act attempts to solve

problems with workers