WWII Review

Life in a Totalitarian State (Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy & Soviet Union)

• Government Controls Human Rights• Mass Censorship• Mass Arrests• Secret Police• One Party System• Booming Economy (Not in Great Depression)• Restoring Lost Glory

Causes of WWII

• Treaty of Versailles• Rise of Fascism & Nazism• Appeasement- Sudetenland & Munich

Agreement• Fascist Aggression (Italian occupation of

Ethiopia)• Non-Aggression Pact- Germany does not have

to fight a two-front war

Alliances

Allies• United States• Great Britain• Soviet Union• France• Italy

Axis• Germany• Japan• Italy

World War II

• Operation Barbarossa (German Invasion of Soviet Union)

-Eventual loss due to Climate & Geography• December 7,1941

Japanese Attack Pearl Harbor

-US enters War

Main Turning Points of WWII1. Entry of US2. Battles of Stalingrad &

Midway3. Cracking of Japanese &

German Codes

Yalta Conference

– Big Three (Roosevelt, Stalin & Churchill)– Decisions• Divide Germany• Soviets taking eastern Europe• Set Up United Nations

The Holocaust (Final Solution)

• Deliberate murder of six million Jews• Carried out by Nazi Germany• Planned in great detail & required cooperation

of a lot of people• SS, led by Himmler, Heydrich & Eichmann, will

be in charge of Holocaust • Led to the formation of Israel after the WWII.• Leaders of Holocaust tried at Nuremburg Trials

(Charged with “Crimes Against Humanity”

The End of the War

• VE Day (Victory in Europe) May 1945. – Fall of Berlin

• VJ Day (Victory over Japan) September 1945– Dropping of Atomic Bombs

• Hiroshima• Nagasaki-Emperor becomes a Constitutional Monarch (No Longer Divine)-Japan becomes a representative democracy

Post-War Programs

United Nations• Goal is to maintain global

peace, promote trade & protect human rights

• Security Council-Most important- Job is to maintain

international peace & security

- 5 Permanent members: US, Russia, Great Britain, China & France

Marshall Plan• US Plan that gave massive

aid to western Europe to rebuild after WWII.

• Goal is to stabilize economies & governments so they will not fall to communism

Major Impacts of WWII

• US & USSR are now Superpowers• Europe is divided between two sides• Cold War• Japan becomes a Constitutional Monarchy• US rebuilds & reindustrializes Western Europe

& Japan• US no longer in Isolationism