WWII

Introduction:
Most devastating war in human history
55 million dead 1 trillion dollars

Began in 1939 as strictly a European Conflict

Widened to include most of the world

How It Began
Lots of factors WWI leftovers
Germany defeated in and had to pay cost of war. In huge economic depression Italy victorious but wanted more territory Japan victorious but wanted China

Outside factors

What Were These Outside Factors?

Germany reduced size Organized League of Nations French and Britain unsure U.S. isolationist

Rise of Hitler
Nazi Party organized, 1920s
Nazi party largest in Germany, 1932

Hitler voted as chancellor, 1933 New parliament created

450, 000 members Larger than German army

Hitler Gets Busy

Gestapo Created -- April, 1933 Jewish Boycott April, 1933 Jewish Books Banned & Burned May, 1933 27,000 People in Camps July, 1933 60,000 People in Camps 1938 Illegal to Leave Germany October, 1941

German Territorial Gains

Austria March, 1938 Border of Czechoslovakia Sept., 1938 All of Czechoslovakia March, 1939 Poland Sept., 1939 By Summer of 1940, Germany Controlled Most of Europe
World shocked as France falls to Germans

Those Dumb Enough To Ally

Stalin and the Soviet Union, 1939
Betrayed by 1941

Mussolini and Italy, 1939

Off and on betrayed until Italian defeat in 1943

Alliance That Changes War

Germany allies with Japan Japan was China Hungry Japanese angry over U.S. support of China Agreed to peace negotiations with U. S.

Pearl Harbor Dec. 7, 1941

Damages

U. S. Involved In War

Allies United: U.S.S.R, England and The U.S.

Normandy Invasion, D-Day

D-Day Landing on Normandy Beach

Germany Surrenders May 7, 1945