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World War II
The Great Depression
Collapse of American Stock Market in 24 October 1929 – Crisis of Capitalism and the Free Market
Overproduction of Agricultural Products
Worldwide ripple effect of “global economy”
Manchurian Invasion of 1931
JAPAN in the Pacific
Francisco Franco1892-1975
Spanish Civil War,1936-1939
Popular Front vs Nationalists (Fascists)
Popular Front of Socialists and Communists
Nationalists of army, church, wealthyelites.
The Spanish Civil War
793
Mussolini and Hitler
Rome-Berlin Axis1936
Pact of Steel1939
Anti-Comintern Pact1936
German Expansion
1936 – Reoccupation of the Rhineland 1938 – Anschluss, Austria incorporated
into Germany 1938 – Sudetenland Crisis – Munich
Conference 1939 -- Germany Invades Rest of
Czechoslovakia August 23, 1939 -- German/Soviet Non-
aggression Pact September 1, 1939 – Invasion of Poland
German Expansion, 1936-1939
Liberal Democracy in Retreat
Neville ChamberlainReturns to England fromMunich with “peace for our time”
German Expansion, 1936-1939
German Expansion
1936 – Reoccupation of the Rhineland 1938 – Anschluss, Austria incorporated
into Germany 1938 – Sudetenland Crisis – Munich
Conference 1939 -- Germany Invades Rest of
Czechoslovakia August 23, 1939 -- German/Soviet Non-
aggression Pact September 1, 1939 – Invasion of Poland
War In Europe
Invasion of Poland – September 1, 1939 Britain & France Declare War on Germany Invasion of Belgium, Netherlands & France, May
1940 -- France Surrenders Battle of Britain – Fall 1940 Invasion of Soviet Union – June 1941 Battle of Stalingrad – 1942-43 German Defeat in North Africa – 1943 Allied Invasion of Italy – September 1943 D-Day – June 1944 Germany Surrenders – May 1945
World War II in Europe
War In Europe
Invasion of Poland – September 1, 1939 Britain & France Declare War on Germany Invasion of Belgium, Netherlands & France, May
1940 -- France Surrenders Battle of Britain – Fall 1940 Invasion of Soviet Union – June 1941 Battle of Stalingrad – 1942-43 German Defeat in North Africa – 1943 Allied Invasion of Italy – September 1943 D-Day – June 1944 Germany Surrenders – May 1945
The Final Solution
“The Jewish Question” Kristallnacht (1938) “Nuremberg
Laws’ Emigration The SS and the Einsatzgruppen 1941-
1945 The Death Camps and the Final
Solution Auschwitz, Buchenwald
Pearl HarborDecember 7, 1941
Triple Alliance
In 1940 Japan Joins Germany &Italy to Form Triple Alliance
World War II in the Pacific
July 16, 19455:29am
First A-Bomb
Europe after WWII
