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    World War II was the largest war in human history from 1939-1945. It involved countries around the globe and resulted in over 70 million deaths. The war was caused by lingering effects from WWI like the Treaty of Versailles, the rise of totalitarian regimes like Nazi Germany and fascist Italy, and the failed policy of appeasement. Major powers on the Allied side included Britain, the Soviet Union, and the United States, while the Axis powers were Germany, Italy, and Japan. The war ended in 1945 with Allied victories in Europe after D-Day and in the Pacific after the US dropped atomic bombs on Japan.

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    World War II was the largest war in human history from 1939-1945. It involved countries around the globe and resulted in over 70 million deaths. The war was caused by lingering effects from WWI like the Treaty of Versailles, the rise of totalitarian regimes like Nazi Germany and fascist Italy, and the failed policy of appeasement. Major powers on the Allied side included Britain, the Soviet Union, and the United States, while the Axis powers were Germany, Italy, and Japan. The war ended in 1945 with Allied victories in Europe after D-Day and in the Pacific after the US dropped atomic bombs on Japan.

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    World War II was the largest war in human history from 1939-1945. It involved countries around the globe and resulted in over 70 million deaths. The war was caused by lingering effects from WWI like the Treaty of Versailles, the rise of totalitarian regimes like Nazi Germany and fascist Italy, and the failed policy of appeasement. Major powers on the Allied side included Britain, the Soviet Union, and the United States, while the Axis powers were Germany, Italy, and Japan. The war ended in 1945 with Allied victories in Europe after D-Day and in the Pacific after the US dropped atomic bombs on Japan.

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    World War II

    Ms.Roma Singh
    Assistant Professor
    Gyan Vihar School of Education
    What was WWII?

    • Largest war in human history.


    • Involved countries, colonies,and
    territories around the entire world.
    • By the end, over 70 million were
    dead.
    • It lasted from 1939 until 1945.
    Causes

    • W WI and the Treaty of Versailles


    • Appeasement
    • Rise of Totalitarianism
    WWI and the Treaty of Versailles
    • Germany lost land to surrounding nations
    • War reparations
    – Allies collect $ to pay back war debts to US
    – Germany pays $57 trillion (modern day
    equivalent)
    – Germans are bankrupt, embarrassed, guilt
    ridden, and angry.
    • Desperate people turn to desperate leaders
    Appeasement
    • Giving someone something to make them happy and leave you
    alone.
    • Hitler demanded land that wasn’t Germany’s and others just gave it
    to him.
    • Nations were trying to prevent war…it didn’t work. (Isolationism)
    • Appeasement just showed Hitler that he could do whatever he
    wanted.
    Rise of Totalitarianism

    • A system in which the state and its leader


    have nearly TOTAL control.
    • Individual rights are not viewed as important as the
    needs of the nation.
    – No right to vote
    – No free speech
    – Government controlled economy
    – Often a police state
    Totalitarianism

    USSR:
    Germany & Italy: Japan:
    Communist
    Fascist Military
    Dictatorship
    Dictatorship Dictatorship
    Adolf Hitler-
    Germany

    Hideki Tojo -
    Japan

    Benito Mussolini-
    Italy

    Josef Stalin-
    USSR
    What is Fascism?

    • Political belief that says the individual is


    less important than the nation.
    • Glorifies violence, believes it is needed to
    “prove” strength of a people.
    • Uses nationalism and racism.
    • Dictatorships.
    • Italy and then Germany became fascist.
    How did WWII
    start?
    •
    Germany invaded Poland to get
    lebensraum
    What did Hitler Want?
    • Militarism- soon after becoming chancellor he
    begins rearming Germany breaking the Treaty of
    Versailles
    • Rhineland- moves troops into the Rhineland
    territory again breaking the Treaty of Versailles
    • Lebensraum- “living space”
    – Austria - annexed peacefully in 1938
    – Sudetenland – territory in Czechoslovakia
    • Given to Germany by Great Britain and France
    – Hitler then invades the rest of Czechoslovakia
    – On to Poland
    How did WWII start?

    • Germany invaded Poland.


    • Allies declare war on Germany.
    • Germany then invades France, Belgium, etc.
    • Then Hitler invades Russia.
    • Germans use “blitzkrieg” to overwhelm other
    armies.
    – Blitzkrieg means “lightening war” in German.
    – Surround with tanks and troops in trucks.
    Who was on each side?

    Axis Powers Allied Powers


    • Germany • Great Britain
    • Italy • Soviet Union
    • Japan • United States
    • France
    – Surrendered to
    Germany in 1940 after
    6 weeks
    What about the Pacific War?

    • The US (mostly) fought the Japanese.


    • December 7, 1941 Japan bombed Pearl
    Harbor in Hawaii to sink US ships
    there.
    – Two hours = most US navy destroyed and
    2,000 sailors killed
    • Japan surrenders after US drops atomic
    bombs on Hiroshima (August 6,1945)
    and Nagasaki(August 9,1945).
    How did WWII end in Europe?

    • Operation Overlord- Allied invasion of


    France. Also called D-Day.
    – Within a month 1 million Allied troops were
    stationed in Europe.
    – Germany is surrounded with the USSR to the
    east
    • Germany surrenders in 1945 after Hitler
    commits suicide.
    How did WWII end in Europe?

    • Allies divide Germany up between them.


    – This helps start the Cold War.
    • Trials are held in Germany (and Japan) to
    try the people responsible for the war.
    – Many are executed and jailed for war crimes.
    What was the Holocaust?
    Genocide during World War II in which Nazi Germany, aided by its collaborators,
    systematically murdered some six million European Jews, around two-thirds of the
    Jewish population of Europe, between 1941 and 1945.

    • Nazi plan to kill all Jews.


    • Why? Hitler’s provided a solution to Germany’s
    problems
    • 6 million Jews murdered in camps in Europe.
    • 5 million others (gypsies, mentally ill)=Total of 11
    million exterminated
    • What is genocide?
    • Purposely trying to exterminate an entire group
    of people (ethnic, religious, racial).
    Quick Facts

    • War Costs
    – US Debt 1940 - $9 Billion
    – US Debt 1945 - $98 Billion
    • WWII cost $330 billion – 10 times the
    cost of WWI & equivalent to all
    previous federal spending since 1776
    Losses of the Major Wartime Powers in WWII,
    1939-1945
    •
    Germany •
    – 4.5 million military – 10 million military
    USSR
    – 2 million civilian – 10 million civilians

    • Japan • Great Britain


    – 2 million military – 300,000 military
    – 350,000 civilians – 50,000 civilians

    • Italy • France
    – 400,000 military – 250,000 military
    – 100,000 civilian – 350,000 civilian

    • China • United States


    – 2.5 million military – 274,000
    – 7.4 million civilians military

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