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DEFINE Appeasement Benito Mussolini Joseph Stalin Anti-Semitism Totalitarian page 364

Italy

Benito Mussolini King names him

head of government He bans;

all other forms of government

Freedom of press Seize Countries

Takes over Ethopia in 1935

Takes over Albania 1939

Soviet Union

Leader Joseph Stalin Used force to

obtain obedience 39,157 military

officers prisoned or killed

For people, millions were sent to “labor camps”

Initially, enemies with Hitler

Hitler

Takes over Germany in 1933

1936 ALLIANCE WITH ITALY Mussolini

Takes over Rhineland, Austria, and Sudetenland by 1939

Time Magazine man of Year in 1939

Expands empire from 186,000 square miles to 225,000 square miles

Britain Responds

Britain assures Poland any invasion would mean war with Germany Secretly Britain

trying to get Poland to appease Germany

Germany invades Poland in 1939

Officially starting WWII

Hitler Expands Germany

The Manhattan Project Begins

Leo Szilard and Eugene Wigner Atomic Scientist Jews, fled Germany Meet Einstein in

America Needed to tell

President of discovery Three men send

letter to FDR Largest secret

weapons project in history begins

America’s Road to War

Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact Agreement not to

attack each other Germany free from

two-front war Hitler convinced no

action will be taken by democracies Sept. 1 1939 Hitler

invades Poland Using Blitzkrieg

Poland falls in 1 month http://www.youtube.co

m/watch?v=8ha0qKquG2E

War in Europe

FRANCE AND BRITAIN GERMANY

Take part in a “sitzkrieg” A sitter's war

Do not invade Germany, but are very defensive

Attack Denmark and Norway in April

Attack Belgium and Netherlands in March Dunkirk

300,000 troops evacuated from France

France surrenders by the end of June

Hitler’s Europe

The Two Sides

ALLIED AXIS

France Great Britain

Italy Germany Japan

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Explain Blitzkrieg in detail.

No puedo esparar para el sabado

WWII Continued

France defeat, Britain fears invasion

Winston Churchill Prime Minister of England

Battle of Britain Germans bomb air bases,

shipyards, and industries, and cities

British RAF defeat the Germans in the sky, after months of fighting, Hitler calls off attack

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nbv-x_cQ26I&feature=relmfu

Hitler Invades Russia?

Failure to invade Britain meant Hitler turns east on Russia Operation Barbarossa

INVADES FOR RESOURCE INVADES FOR “LIVING

SPACE FOR GERMAN PEOPLE”

Russia has “scorched earth policy” Destroy their own

country

Series 1

Series 2

Series 3

US REPSONDS TO THE WAR

PREPARE FOR WAR 1940 ELECTION

FDR Strengthens Navy

Passes “neutrality act” Opens trade with

warring nations if they pay cash

FDR signs “Selective Service and Training Act” Peacetime Ages 21-35

FDR wins unprecedented third term

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What were the reasons Hitler gave for invading Russia? What fighting tactic did Russia use? What does that tactic include?

U.S. Japan Relations

Post WWI U.S. does not support

British treaty with Japan

U.S. does not support the “Rape of Nanking”

U.S. places Oil Embargo on Japan in order to keep them from invading Indonesia .

Japan accidentally sinks U.S. boat killing 3, wounding 40

December 7th, 1941

Early 1941, U.S. Japan engaged in peace talks

Pearl Harbor Waves of Japanese

Zeroes Swept in strike battle ship row

Sink 18 war ships; 180 aircraft

2,403 America deaths; 1,178 wounded

U.S. Responds

American armed forces post Pearl Harbor Army smaller than

Romania Navy destroyed by PH

U.S. declare war December 8, 1941 Hitler, declares war on

the U.S. December 11, 1941

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBWWZ-ZEydc&feature=relmfu

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Identify Dwight Eisenhower George Patton Operation Overlord D-DAY Harry Truman

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WWII CONTINUED Chapter 12 SECTION 4

WWII Timeline

Allies take over Africa in 1943

September 1943; Allies take country

of Sicily Italians

overthrow Benito Mussolini and surrender Officially join WWII

on the side of the allies

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Name the 5 beaches in France that the allies attack. Which beaches were the United States responsible for?

Allies take France

Germans re-treat “Champagne

Campaign” August 25th 1944

France is back in control by allies

Feeling was war would be over by Christmas

Leader of France General Charles

De Gaulle

Winter 1944-1945 Map of Europe

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Put these events in correct order D-DAY Hitler takes over the Sudetenland Pearl Harbor Invasion of Poland Hitler Declares War on the U.S.

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Where did the Battle of the Bulge take place? How many troops were fighting? Why were allies short of supplies and food?