U.S. IN WORLD WAR II

Memorial of the raising of the American flag on Iwo Jima

CAUSES OF THE WAR

• Treaty of Versailles failure

• League of Nations

• Munich Agreement

• Political Values

• U.S.A. Neutrality/Pearl Harbor

TREATY OF VERSAILLES

• June 28, 1919. After WWI

• Germany rebuilds armed forces in 1935

• Reoccupied DZ in Rhineland

TREATY OF VERSAILLES cont.

• Annexation of Austria and Sudetenland

• 1939, occupied the rest of Czech

• Sept 1st, 1939, Hitler invaded Poland

Invasion of Poland

LEAGUE OF NATIONS

• Goals

• Similar troubles with Treaty of Versailles

• Germany, Japan, and Italy’s withdrawal

• U.S. not getting involved

MUNICH AGREEMENT

• 29 September, 1938, Munich Germany• Permit for Nazi Germany• Sudetenland’s importance

Government officials meeting in Munich

POLITICAL VALUES

• U.S.A.

• Nazi Germany

• Imperial Japan

U.S. NEUTRALITY• Neutrality Act of 1937

• Trade cut off with Japan

• Japan’s plan

• Defeat of France/Collapse of Britain

PEARL HARBOR

• Background

•Bombing of Pearl Harbor

•December 8, 1941. U.S.A. enters WWII

Sinking of USS Arizona

MILITARY INVOLVEMENT IN AFRICA

• Allies/Axis in Africa

• Operation Torch

• Areas of fighting in Africa

• Major leaders during the campaign

• The end of the operation

Landing of troops in North Africa

MILITARY INVOLVEMENT IN EUROPE• D-Day June 6, 1944

• U.S. battle plans

• Operations Overlord and Dragon

• Military officials and their roles

• V-E Day May 8, 1945

D-day landing

MILITARY INVOLVEMENT IN THE PACIFIC

• Retaliation to Pearl Harbor

• U.S. Navy battles

• Use of Marines (island hopping)

• Military leaders and strategies

• V-J Day September 2, 1945

Pilots on Carrier

MAIN CAUSES OF VICTORY

• Battle strategies

• The fall of Hitler/Mussolini

• Japan’s bad planning

• The United States new war tactics

DIPLOMATIC VIEWS

• Franklin Delano Roosevelt

• Main diplomatic missions of WWII

• Wartime Diplomacy

Franklin D. Roosevelt portrait

TECHNOLOGY ADVANCEMENTS

• Weaponry: aircraft and vehicles• Advances in communications and Intel• Small arms development• Medicines• The Atomic bomb

Atomic Bomb causing a mushroom cloud

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