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The Coming War

The Coming War While America is in its own time of

depression so is Europe after the devastation of WWI

The European economy is in shambles and many of the cities have been destroyed by the war.

The Central powers are having to pay wartime reparationsreparations (payments to other countries for war cost)

People are largely without hope especially in Germany

The Coming War In countries like Germany, politicians are trying

to get public support Parties such as the Nazi Party are using strong using strong

nationalistnationalist feelings, corruptioncorruption, and strong arm strong arm tacticstactics to gain control of the government.

ItalyItaly also votes in a political party that pushes a nationalist platformnationalist platform.

The use of nationalistic feelings give these countries something to focus on and a sense of power.

The Coming War While feelings of nationalism is driving

several countries who were ravished by the war, others who remained untouched are still being driven by imperialism (Japan)imperialism (Japan)

Out of these countries will come strongstrong leadersleaders with very definite agendas. The opposing sides will have leaders of equal determination.

Germany, Italy and JapanGermany, Italy and Japan will start the events that will lead to World War II

Dictators & Defenders

Axis PowersAxis Powers

Allied PowersAllied Powers

Dictators & DefendersItaly

Benito Mussolini Italy’s prime minister by 1922, -starts fascism

Fascism—political movement in which government controls society

Italy invades Libya, attacks Ethiopia in 1935

Dictators & DefendersGermanyAdolf Hitler, another fascist leader, rises to power in

1933

Nazi Party is Hitler’s political organization• Hitler promises to strengthen Germany’s

economy and military-heavy war damage payments from World

War I weaken Germany• Hitler stops all payments, builds military• Hitler invades Rhineland in 1935; France and

allies do nothing

Dictators & DefendersJapan• Japan occupies part of China in 1931, U.S.

condemns action• Japan, Germany, Italy ally in 1940 (imperialism)

• U.S. blocks steel to Japan, freezes assets of Japanese companies

• Hideki Tojo, Japan’s prime minister, wants U.S. out of Pacific

Dictators & DefendersEnglandPrime Minister is Winston Churchill who leads

his country in the face of an all powerful German army.

RussiaUnder the dictator Josef Stalin initially makes a

secret pact with Hitler but is betrayed and joins the Allies.

United StatesU.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt led the

country for four terms due to America’s confidence in his leadership

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WWIIGermany Invades…• Allies unwilling to use force to stop Hitler

from taking more land, try diplomacy instead

• Hitler breaks promises, invades Poland, Britain, France declare war on Germany,

hope Soviet Union will help• Soviet leader Josef Stalin secretly plans to

side with Hitler.

WWII• Germany invades more countries, conquers France in June, 1940• After France, Hitler launches Battle of

Britain• German air force tries to defeat Great

Britain by heavy bombing• Britain withstands bombing, but

desperately needs help 

WWIIGermany Invades the Soviet Union• Hitler launches surprise invasion of Soviet

Union, June 1941• Soviets defend Moscow, Leningrad in

long, bloody campaigns• Soviets switch to Allied side, lose 1

million people by 1944

WWII

WWII• Most Americans favor isolationism—staying out

of Europe’s affairs• Americans eventually realize Hitler’s threat;

cannot remain neutral • Lend-Lease Act of 1941 lets Roosevelt lend

allies military supplies • German U-boats sink American supply ships

crossing Atlantic • U.S. unofficially at war • PropagandaPropaganda starts for all countries

PropagandaPropaganda

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WWII Attack on Pearl Harbor• December 7, 1941, Japan attacks naval

base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii• U.S. Pacific Fleet stationed there; 2,300

killed, 19 ships destroyed• Congress declares war on Japan one day

after Pearl Harbor• U.S. leaders decide to enter Europe first,

wait to fight in Pacific

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WWII America enter the war in Africa and drives

Italy and Germany out of Africa before entering Europe(1942).

Allied forces next attack and defeat Italy (1943)

Largest armada in history approaches France on D-Day, June 6, 1944

Allies move through France, free Paris push toward Berlin

WWIIVE-Day• Roosevelt dies April 1945, Harry Truman becomes president -by then Allies are close to Hitler, but

he kills himself on April 30• Germany surrenders on May 8, 1945, V-E

Day (Victory in Europe)• Truman turns attention to war in Pacific

WWII The Holocaust• Hitler wants to “purify” German race, remove

Jews from Europe- also wants to eliminate homosexuals, gypsies,

many with disabilities

• “Final Solution”—imprison them in concentration camps and kill them

• Holocaust -Over 6 million Jews killed in camps with an estimated 11 million people killed in camps over 6 years

• The Jewish communities even in the United States had seen discrimination.

WWIIThe Pacific Theater (War with Japan)

Pacific strategy: take islands gradually, “island hopping” to Japan

• U.S. hops toward Japan 1942-1945-also bombs cities, factories, facilities in Japan

• U.S. believes invasion of Japan would take hundreds of thousands of men

WWIIThe Atomic Bomb• Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, August 6, 1945• Truman demands immediate surrender, Japan

refuses, second bomb falls on Nagasaki three days later (over 220,000 combined deaths)

• Second bomb ends war almost immediately

• Japan stops fighting August 14, 1945, V-J Day (victory in Japan)

WWIIThe War’s Impact• More death, destruction in World War II

than in any other war• 20 million soldiers killed, millions of

civilians also dead

Georgia & WWIIAirplanes• Bell Aircraft’s Marietta factory builds B-

29 Superfortress bombers-employs 28,000 at peak production; over 6,000 women work there

Factory in GA due to Roosevelt’s influence to do something for his adopted home.

Georgia & WWIIShipbuilding• German U-boats sink many U.S. cargo

ships at start of war• Savannah, Brunswick shipyards build 447-

foot-long Liberty Ships• Many Georgia men and women leave

farms to work in shipyards

Georgia & WWIITraining Troops in Georgia Georgia and Texas have the most troop

training bases in U.S. Camp Gordon- infantry, tanks, & P.O.W.’s Camp Stewart- Anti-aircraft training Fort Benning-Airborne, officer training

Georgia trains troops at multiple bases and even uses colleges

Georgia & WWIICarl Vinson- Georgia U.S. Congressman

wrote many bills that helped to build the U.S. Navy into the strongest in the world.

Richard Russell- helped to bring war-time opportunities to GA including over a dozen military bases

Carl Vinson

Richard Russell