WHY DIE FOR DANZIG?

• The Nazi-Soviet Pact

• Germany Invades Poland

• The Response of Great Britain and France

• Warsaw

• Blitzkrieg

• Problems for Poland

THE SOVIET RESPONSE

• The Baltic States

• Finland• October 1939

• Problems faced by the Soviets

• The Response of Great Britain and America

THE U.S. RESPONSE

• FDR

• The Neutrality Acts

• Cash and Carry

• William Borah

• The Phony War

ENDING THE PHONY WAR

• Securing the Northern Flank

• Denmark and Norway

• April 10, 1940

• The British Response

• German losses

• Winston Churchill

MARCHING TOWARDS FRANCE

• May 1940

• The Maginot Line

• Luxembourg

• Ardennes Forrest

• Erich von Manstein

THE INVASION OF FRANCE

• Dunkirk

• May 27-June 4th

• Reasons for Stopping

• Mussolini’s role

• June 22, 1940

THE IMPACT OF THE FALL OF FRANCE

• French Commander in Chief, General Maurice Gamelin

• Worldwide implications

• The Vichy Regime

FOCUSING ON THE BRITISH

• The Battle of Britain

• Göring and the Luftwaffe

• Flaws in the plan

• Gains and losses

• Reasons for Victory

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GETTING INVOLVED

• German U-Boats

• Destroyers for Bases

• The Selective Service Act

• The Election of 1940

MOVING FURTHER

• Pleas from the British

• Arsenal of Democracy

• The Lend Lease Act (HR 1776)

• March 1941

THE SECOND FRONT

• The Nazi-Soviet Pact

• Operation Barbarossa

• Mussolini invades Greece

• Hitler invades Greece

THE SECOND FRONT

• Delaying the Plan

• Intelligence gathering

• Stalin’s response

• June 22, 1941

• The Blitzkrieg

THE SECOND FRONT

• Problems for the Germans

• Problems for the Soviets

• Holy Mother Russia

• The effects of Winter

MOVING CLOSER TO WAR

• The Atlantic Charter

• FDR meets with Churchill

• August 1941

• Shared Goals

• Fighting the U-Boats

PEARL HARBOR

• Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto

• Operation Hawaii

• Admiral Husband Kimmel

• “THIS IS NOT DRILL”

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NORTH AFRICA

• Mussolini

• Egypt

• Exaggerations

• The Suez Canal

• Churchill’s response

NORTH AFRICA

• Marshall Rudolfo Graziani

• Numbers

• Timeline

• Commander Sir Archibald Wavell

• General Erwin Rommel

• The Afrika Corps

NORTH AFRICA

• The role of the Navy

• Desert Conditions

• The Ultra Secret

• General Claude Auchinleck

• Rommel becomes a legend

• “Monty”

NORTH AFRICA

• Operation Torch

• November 1942

• Pleas from Stalin

• FDR’s choice?

• Churchill’s choice?

NORTH AFRICA• George Marshall

• Roosevelt meets with Molotov

• November 8, 1942

• Reasons for the invasion

• Henri Petain

• Charles de Gaulle

NORTH AFRICA• French Resistance

• Jean Darlan

• Dwight Eisenhower

• November 10, 1942

• The Darlan Deal

• Suspicions

• Results of the North Africa Campaign

BACK TO THE SOVIET UNION

• Stalingrad

• Summer 1942

• Caucasia

• Hitler’s obsession

THE EASTERN FRONT

• August 1942

• Soviet General Georgi Zhukov

• Romanian Efforts

• The Russian Winter

• January 1943

• Results

BIG DECISIONS• Casablanca

• January 13-24, 1943

• The next move?

• De Gaulle and Geraud

• FDR’s “unconditional surrender” speech

• Results

THE EASTERN FRONT

• July 1943

• Kursk

• CITADEL

• Diverting effort to Italy

• Results

ATTACKING THE UNDERBELLY

• Operation Husky

• Coalition Forces

• Attempts to throw off the Germans

• Montgomery VS Patton

• No more Mussolini

• Field Marshall Pietro Badoglio

ATTACKING THE UNDERBELLY

• Eisenhower makes negotiations

• Italy surrenders

• Germany invades Italy

• The Gustav Line

• October 1943

WARTIME DIPLOMACY

• The Teheran Conference

• Making plans

• OVERLORD

• Eisenhower’s new role

FOCUSING ON ITALY

• Anzio

• Operation Shingle

• General John Lucas

• January 1944

• Lack of supplies

MARCHING TO ROME

• Monte Cassino

• January 1944

• Sending more troops

• Strategy

• May 1944

• General Mark Clark

OVERLORD

• Normandy

• Scheduling

• FORTITUDE

• Numbers

• Paratroopers

• Cherbourg

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SECRET WEAPONS

• V-1s

• V-2s

• ME 262

SECRET PLOTS

• July 1944• Colonel Klaus von

Stauffenberg• Saving Germany• Attempts to overthrow the

Reich• Hitler’s reaction• The long term effects

MARCHING TOWARDS GERMANY

• Leadership

• Eisenhower

• Montgomery

• Patton

HOLLAND

• Operation Market-Garden

• September 1944

• Purpose of the operation?

• Results?

THE BULGE

• The plan

• September 1944

• Goals

• December 1944

• The initial attack

• Spies

THE BULGE

• Heroism

• Christmas

• Setbacks

• Results

THE WAR IN THE EAST

• The New Front

• Hitler’s new plan

• Poland

• Gaining ground

• February 2, 1945

MORE DIPLOMACY

• Yalta

• The big three

• Gaining the upper hand

• Goals

YALTA

• The United Nations

• Reparations

• Help against Japan

• Poland

• The Lublin Poles

• The London Poles

• Polish borders

MOVING IN

• Eisenhower’s intentions

• The Elbe River

• Stalin’s goals

• Hitler’s condition

• Eva Braun

• Admiral Karl Doenitz

• Field Marshal Alfred Jodl

POTSDAM

• Truman

• Stalin

• Churchill

• Attlee

• Conditions

THE WAR IN THE PACIFIC

• December 8, 1941

• The Next Target

• MacArthur

• Problems for the Americans

• The role of the Press

• Bataan

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BOOSTING MORALE

• Tokyo

• The Hornet

• April 18, 1942

• Lt. Colonel James Doolittle

• Results of the Raid

CORAL SEA

• Defending Australia• Admiral Chester Nimitz• Port Moresby• Yorktown

• Lexington

• May 7, 1942• Results

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THE TURNING POINT

• June 4-7, 1942

• Midway

• The Aleutians

• Codes

• Yamamoto

• Results

OFFENSE

• The Solomon Islands

• Guadalcanal

• August 7, 1942

• Fighting in the Jungles

• Japan attempts to retake the island

• Importance of the victory

STATE OF THE WAR: 1943

• Divided Leadership

• New technology

THE NEXT OBJECTIVE

• Rabaul

• February 1943

• Operation Cartwheel

• The Battle of Bismarck Sea

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CARTWHEEL

• Yamamoto

• June 1943

• Good Communication

• Airstrips

CARTWHEEL

• Bougainville

• Rabaul

• February 1944

BACK TO THE PHILIPPINES

• July 1944

• Choices

• Leyte

• October 1944

• Kamikazes

RECAPTURING THE PHILIPPINES

• January 1945

• Luzon

• Objectives

• Manila

• March 3, 1945

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IWO JIMA

• Why Iwo Jima?

• Defensive strategies

• February 1945

• Results

OKINAWA

• Location

• April 1945

• The role of Kamikazes

• Civilian casualties

• Results

• June 1945

DECISIONS

• The Potsdam Declaration

• Hiroshima (8/6)

• Nagasaki (8/9)

• V-J Day

THE HOME FRONT

• Remember Pearl Harbor

• FDR’s Four Freedoms

• The Atlantic Charter

• The “DR.”

• Getting the job done

THE HOME FRONT

• Office of War Information

• Problems with the OWI

• Propaganda

• “Give till it hurts”

• Victory Gardens

THE HOME FRONT

• Advertising

• Comic Strips

• Entertainment

• Music and movies

• The impact of propaganda

THE HOME FRONT

• The Selective Service Act

• The Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps (WACs)

• Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES)

• Women’s Auxiliary Service Pilots (WASPs)

• Female Marines

THE HOME FRONT

• Freedom From Discrimination

• African-Americans

• Native Americans

• Japanese-Americans

THE HOME FRONT

• Mobilizing the Economy

• War Production

• Labor Unions

• Farmers

THE HOME FRONT

• The War Production Board

• The War Manpower Commission

• The Office of War Mobilization

• The Office of Price Administration

THE HOME FRONT

• Social Change

• African-Americans on the Home Front

• A. Philip Randolph

• Executive Order 8802

THE HOME FRONT

• Women in the work force

• Rosie the Riveter

• The effects of working on women

THE HOME FRONT• The Servicemen’s

Readjustment Act (June 1944)

• The “GI” Bill

• Loan Guarantees for small businesses, farms, and homes

• Tuition payments and living expenses

THE HOME FRONT• Japanese-Americans

• Nisei

• Issei

• Rumors

• “A Jap is a Jap”

• Executive Order 9066

THE HOME FRONT

• Science and technology

• National Defense Research Committee

• The Office of Scientific Research and Development

THE HOME FRONT

• Leo Szilard

• Albert Einstein

• The Manhattan Project

• J. Robert Oppenheimer