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| A person who rules a country with absolute power or total control |
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| Leader of Germany prior to and throughout WWII. Head of the Nazi Party. |
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1) Treaty of Versailles
2) Dictator rule in Europe
3) Worldwide depression
4) Weakness of League of Nations |
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Focused on placing Germans in front of all others
Becomes more and more anti-Semitic over time |
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| Japan seeks to find natural resources and invades China |
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| U.S. seeks to remain isolationist and passes Neutrality Acts in both 1935 and 1937. |
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| Germany seeks to expand into other "traditionally German" areas. They take the Rhineland, Austria, and the Sudetenland by 1938. |
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| Britain and France appease Germany by giving them the Sudetenland in exchange for a promise not to take anything else. |
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| To give in to avoid conflict. Britain and France unsuccessfully used a policy of appeasement with Germany prior to WWII. |
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| Soviet-German Non-Aggression Pact |
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| USSR and Germany agree not to attack one another. This clears the way for Hitler and Germany to attack Poland. |
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| "Lightning War" - the style of fighting used by Germany in WWII. Three waves of attack - planes, then tanks, then soldiers. |
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| This September, 1939, German attack is considered the beginning of WWII. German took Poland in only one month. |
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| Germany, Italy, Japan, and their allies |
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| U.S.S.R., Britain, France, and later the U.S. and their allies |
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| Largely air war over Britain ith the German Luftwaffe desperately trying to bomb Britain into submission. The citizens of Britain survive by using blackouts, RADAR, and and air force consisting of quick, agile Spitfire fighter planes against the slower German bombers. |
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| December 7, 1941 - a Japanese sneak attack on the U.S. Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii killing 2300 soldiers. This brought the U.S. into the war. |
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| FDR creates a draft to increase the size of the United State military. |
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| Supervised the conversion of industries to war goods manufacturing |
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| Helped to raise funds to support the war effort. Sold with help from a successful propaganda campaign. |
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| U.S. citizens are asked to grow own food to allow the government to send food to the front. |
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| U.S. citizens are asked to same metals, cloth, rubber, etc. to aid in the war effort. |
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| Successful ad campaign that urged women to enter the workforce during the war to support the war effort. |
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| Navajo Indians used to put secret messages in code and to break the codes of the Japanese and Germans. |
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| Citizens of the U.S. on the West Coast are concerned that Japanese Americans might be acting as spies. FDR issues Executive Order 9066, ordering all Japanese people in the west to go to internment camps for the duration of the war. |
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| Korematsu vs. United States (1944) |
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| Fred Korematsu sued over having been placed in an interment camp and loses his case. This decision is later overturned and the U.S. apologizes to those interned during the war. |
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| U.S.S.R. defends this city against German attack despite huge losses. The Soviets lose more people during this war than any other country. |
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| D-Day Invasion (June 6, 1944) |
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| U.S., France, UK and Canada land troops at Normandy, France against German defenses. This creates a two front war for Germany with USSR in the east and the others in the west. |
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| May 7, 1945 - Germany surrenders to the Allies in Europe. The fighting in the Pacific would continue, however. |
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| During the war, Germany executed 6 million Jews, gypsies, homosexual and handicapped people in an effort to "purify" the human race. |
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| The deliberate killing of a certain group of people. |
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| The U.S. policy in the Pacific of creeping closer and closer to the islands of Japan in order to launch an attack. |
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| The secret development of the atomic bomb by the United States. |
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| The two Japanese cities hit by U.S. atomic bombs in August of 1945. The devastation leads Japan to surrender on V-J Day (August 15, 1945). |
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| German officials were tried in court in Nuremberg, Germany. They were accused of war crimes. The chief prosecutor was Robert H. Jackson of Jamestown, NY. |
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1) 55 million deaths
2) Europe and the Pacific are largely destroyed
3) Half of deaths were civilians (non-military) |
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