World War Ii Posters

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Causes

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Treaty of Versailles

Rise of dictatorships

Appeasement of Agressors

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Treaty of Versailles

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Many Germans felt that their country was unfairly punished after World War I. The Versailles treaty left Germany with massive war debts, shortages of raw materials, and a weakened military.

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Rise of dictatorships

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During the depression of the 1930's, dictators took advantage of political unrest and created powerful military regimes.

Mussolini's gained power in Italy in 1928.

Nazi party took over Germany in 1933.

In Japan, nationalistic military officers began to exert power in 1931.

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Appeasement of Agresssors

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The League of Nations and the Western democracies offered only weak opposition to acts of aggression by Japan, Italy, and Germany during the late 1930's. This policy of appeasement gave totalitarian regimes time to consolidate power and to forge massive war machines.

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Effects

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The United Nations founded

Atomic age opens

Balance of power shifts

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The United Nations founded

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The ineffective League of Nations gave way to the Inter-Allied Declaration in 1941. In June 1945, 50 nations signed a charter forming the United Nations.

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Atomic Age Opens

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Japan surrendered after American atomic bombs destroyed the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The further development of atomic weapons lead to the new chapter in the arms race.

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Balance of Power Shifts

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Because the war exhausted the resources of most industrial countries, the United States and U.S.S.R became world superpowers. Competition between these two nations created the Cold War.

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Blitzkrieg

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"the lightning war". Relentless air attacks on Allied territory were immediately followed by movements of armored vehicles into the weakened area.

Took heavy toll on the European allies early in the War.

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Battle of Britan

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In 1940, waves of German Luftwaffe aircraft dropped tons of explosives on London and other British cities, killing and wounding thousands of innocent civilians. But the British refused to surrender. The Royal Air Force (RAF) engaged German planes in dogfights over English Channel before the Germans could drop their deadly cargo.

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Pearl Harbor

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The Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor crippled the American Pacific fleet. The U.S Navy lost five battleships and fourteen smaller ships, and over 2000 sailors were killed. The United States immediately declared war on Japan. Within months, Americans were fighting on two fronts- Europe and the Pacific.

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The "Big Three" at Yalta

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On February 12, 1945, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Premier Joseph Stalin met to establish plans for occupation and division of Germany. They also set the date for the founding meeting of the United Nations.

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Head of Manhattan Project

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Rober Oppenheimer

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What did officials fear that Germany was doing?

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Becoming close to developing an atomic weapon too.

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In 1945 Harry Truman ordered

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the bombing of two Japanese cities

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Oppenheimer strongly supported

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the control of nuclear weapons.

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Hitler ignores World War I Treaty

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In 1936, Hitler reoccupied the Rhineland (region near the French and German border) in direct violation of the Versailles treaty. With ever bolder moves, he annexed Austria in 1938 and Czechoslovakia in 1939. Finally when German troops entered Poland in September 1939, the Allies responded and World War II began.

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Japan's Rising Sun

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During World War II, Emperor Hirohito was the focus of nationalistic pride for the Japanese. However, political power was actually in the hands of military leaders.

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The Japanese Leaders' goal

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to rule eastern Asia and expunge Western influence in the area.

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Estimate of deaths in Auschwitz

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2500000 executed and 500000 starved

3000000 died overall.

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Number of woman that joined the work force

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More than 2 million

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Americans pitched in by

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growing "victory gardens" and by recycling raw materials for war machinery.

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Americans were issued

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ration books limiting their monthly purchases of sugar, gasoline, meat coffee, butter and shoes.

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D-Day Invasion

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On June 6, 1944, the Allies staged a massive landing in Normandy. Named "Operation Overlord," the offensive was the beginning of the end for Hitler's plan of European domination.

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Within One year of D-Day

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Allied forces entered Berlin. Hitler's Third Reich collapsed with his suicide and Germany's unconditional surrender in May 1945.

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Island Hopping in the Pacific

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Within 6 months of crippling the U.S Navy at Pearl Harbor, Japan was the master of eastern Asia. But by autumn of 1942, the United States had recovered its losses and started the difficult process of liberating the region island by island.