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World War II
1939 - 1945
Aim:
Using the sudden, mass attack called
the
Europe
and North Africa
the Germans are trying to clean up the city. For this work they
are using only Jews. Jews must sweep the streets, clean all
the public latrines, and fill all the street trenches. Plastered
sometimes they are not. It seems that most of the orders are
Maginot Line
Fortification
France Falls
June 10, 1940
On ______________
Mussolini declared war on
Britain & France
The Axis Powers took Paris by June 14th
June 22, 1940
___________________
France surrendered
Germany took the northern part of France & set up a
Vichy
puppet govt set up in ___________under
Marshall Henry Petain
____________________
Charles de Gaulle
A French General, _______________,
Movement
Winston Churchill
__________________,
the new
Luftwae
Germanys plan was to attack with the __________
could
launch
a
major
ground offensive
(______________________)
Royal Air Force
Radar
________________
Enigma
___________~
A German
Battle of Britain
The ____________
continued until
*Allies learned a
crucial lesson*:
_________________
Hitlers advances could be blocked
_________________
__________________________
President
could
lend
or
lease
arms
&
the US
Atlantic charter
The Holocaust
AIM: During the
Holocaust,
Hitlers Nazis
killed six million
Jews and five
million other
non-Aryans
Nuremberg Race
Laws
A citizen of the Reich is
that subject only who is
of German or kindred
blood and who, through
his conduct, shows that
he is both desirous and
fit to serve the German
people and Reich
faithfully
people
humans)
AIM:
Led by the
United
States,
Great
Britain and
the
Soviet Union,
the
Allies scored
key
victories and
won
the war
The Allied
Victory
Yalta conference
____________________
Germany must
surrender
unconditionally
Germany will be divided
Four
into _________
zones
The Soviet Union will
allow free elections in
Eastern European
countries
Soviet Union will declare
war on Japan
___________________
to fire Mussolini (July
Mussolini in charge of
fighters
found
Mussolini
disguised as a German
Normandy Invasion
Europe in Ruins
60 million dead
WW II left ___________________,
50 million people
without homes & billions in damage
Many European cities & the countryside were
completely destroyed
Warsaw, Poland had 1.3 million people in 1940 & in
1945 they had only 153,000 people remaining
Europe in Ruins
People were also displaced by the war, factories destroyed, no
water, electricity & little food
Misery Continues after the war
Since most railways were destroyed, food could not reach the
cities. In August, 1945 4,000 citizens of Berlin were dying
everyday
Postwar Governments & Politics
After the war, the countries of Germany, France & Italy were
ashamed & many people in those countries turned toward
Communism
An Attempt at Justice
Japan was completely destroyed & all of their holdings were taken
away
The US will occupy Japan
Demilitarization in Japan
Demilitarized
MacArthur institutes a process of ___________________
disbanding Japanese armed forces
In February 1946, MacArthur & his American political
Parliamentary democracy
advisors drew up a constitution (____________________)
The US also sent 2 billion dollars in emergency relief
1.) Protests
Violence
Deportation
Isolation
Final solution