World War II - Weebly...•Feb. 1945 – Stalin, Churchill, FDR meet – Soviets to enter war with Japan after defeat of Nazi’s Yalta Conference Big Three at Yalta: •Manhattan

World War II

Victory in the Pacific Theater

1942-1945

•After Pearl

Harbor, the

Japanese made

steady advances in

the Pacific

•Captured U.S.

island of

Philippines in 1942

Japanese Advances

•Bataan Death March

• 65-mile march that

killed hundreds of

U.S. prisoners and

10,000 Filipinos

Japanese Advances

•Battle of Midway

June 1942 – Allies

severely cripple

Japanese Navy

Marks beginning of

island-hopping

campaign

Turning Points

•Island Hopping:

Turning Points

•Feb. 1945 –

Stalin, Churchill,

FDR meet –

Soviets to enter

war with Japan

after defeat of

Nazi’s

Yalta Conference

Big Three at Yalta:

•Decided how to divide up Pacific

region, Germany, and eastern

Europe

Yalta Conference

•Japanese soldiers would not

surrender

•Kamikaze – begin attacking ships in

1944

No Surrender

•Manhattan Project

Code-name for

development of atomic

bomb

•July 1945 – Truman

appeals to Japan to

surrender – Potsdam

Conference

Final Defeat

At Potsdam the issue of how to deal with a defeated Germany

was further discussed. Afterwards, Churchill and Truman

shared their fears about the looming Soviet Power

Final Defeat

•August 6, 1945 – Hiroshima bombed •August 9, 1945 – Nagasaki bombed

Little Boy - Hiroshima Fat Man- Nagasaki

•August 10, 1945 –

Truman appeals to

Japan to surrender –

Potsdam Conference

•September 2, 1945 –

Formal surrender

Aboard US Battleship

Missouri (V-J DAY)

WWII had ended

Final Defeat

Show of force to the Japanese

during the surrender

ceremony

World War II 1939-1945

Impact of the War

Major Impacts1. Between 50-70 million killed

2. Economic and physical ruin to much of Europe and Asia

3. Germany was divided between West (Democratic) and East (Communist)

If you base it on

the high total of

70 million, the

Allies account

for around 60

Million of that!

If you base it on

the high total of

70 million, the

Axis account for

around 10

Million of that!

Beaver Stadium = Max

capacity is 107,000

500,000 People

Ten Stadiums =

1,000,000 (One

Million) People

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This is what 50,000,000 people looks like

= 500 large football stadiums

Remember, each

one looks like this!

This is what 70,000,000

looks like! Remember,

each one looks like this!!!!

Nuremberg Trials•Axis power leaders were tried for “crimes against humanity”

•Many were sentenced to death

The United Nations•April 1945 – Representatives of 50 nations met in San Francisco to establish it

•Purpose is to provide a place to discuss world problems and develop solutions

The United Nations•There are two main bodies:

1.General Assembly – Representatives from 193 nations

2.Security Council – 15 member nations, 5 of which are permanent (U.S., Russia, France, Britain, China)

The United Nations

•The Security Council has the real power of the UN

The Holocaust

Warning! – Graphic images

What was the Holocaust?• It’s the term generally used to

describe the genocide of approximately six million European Jews during World War II

• It was part of the program of deliberate extermination planned and executed by Nazi Germany under Adolf Hitler

• Other groups were also persecuted and killed, including ethnic Poles, the Romani (Gypsy), Soviet civilians, Soviet prisoners of war, the disabled, homosexual men, and political and religious opponents

• Nazis called it the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question."

German soldiers on the way to Poland. The inscription on the railway car

reads: "We are going to Poland to strike at the Jews". On the left, an anti-

Semitic drawing of a Jew

•The persecution and genocide were accomplished in stages:

1.Germans used laws (Nuremburg Laws)to legally discriminate against Jews

How were these people killed?

Instructional chart issued to help bureaucrats distinguish Jews from

Mischlinge (mixed race persons) and Aryans. The white figures are

Aryans; the black figures Jews; and the shaded figures Mischlinge.

2. Germany reinstituted Ghettos and forced Jews to live under terrible conditions

• The Jews were not allowed out of the ghetto

• Food supplied by Nazis = under 300Cal a day

• Very crowded with up to 30-40 per room

• No sanitation or running water

• hundreds of thousands of Jews died of disease and starvation.

3. Concentration camps were established in which inmates were used as slave labor until they died of exhaustion or disease.

4. Jews and Romani transported hundreds of miles by train to extermination camps where most were killed in gas chambers.

Romani (Gypsy) children that were victims

of Medical Experiments

Cold Water experiment being performed

on a prisoner by German Scientist

The Burning of Corpses

Polish Jews

after a

execution

Dead inmates at a labor camp

At left: “The last Jew of

Vinnitsa” about to be

executed at a mass grave.

Below: a Jewish child starving

and dying in a “ghetto”

created to place the Jews

before the camps.

Mass Graves

A pile of the victims glasses at Auschwitz

Sorting the shoes of victims in Auschwitz. Like all the other

property of the victims, it was sent to Germany

A letter stating the

cremating capacity of

the five Auschwitz

crematoriums is

specified as 4,756 per

24 working hours.

The furnaces of Krema II in Auschwitz.

A mass execution of Jews in Nazi occupied

Soviet Union.

The SS man is firing at a Jewish woman

who is wounded and trying to get up.

Naked Jews, including a young boy, just before their murder.

Naked = humiliation and exposure to the elements. Plus,

anything useful was often stripped, including the camp

uniforms, so that it could be used again.

Why did Hitler Hate the Jews?• The Nazis had a vision of an Aryan

Supreme German race that did not include Jews and many other groups of people

• Some Germans believed that "Jewish bankers" were responsible for the Treaty of Versailles

• Hitler blamed the Jews for Germany's defeat in World War I

• Hitler and others absorbed some of their parents' racism. Anti-Semitism has a long history

• Another key element of a dictatorship is fear, and a visible scapegoat experiencing the wrath of the state is a good way to keep people from stepping out of line

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