1. Mrs. Sample

2. CAUSES LEADING TO WAR:
Nationalism
Imperialism
Alliances
World War II
was a direct
result of the
first World War
and would
become the
most
devastating
war of all time.

3.  Adolf Hitler
becomes dictator
of Germany in
1933. He began to
rebuild military and
brought Germany
out of depression
from WWI.

4. NAZISM
 Political group led by Adolf Hitler
 Believed in superior German race.

5. FASCISM
 Political party founded by Benito Mussolini
 Believed in government having absolute
power over all parts of one’s life

6. Major leaders of World
War II
Axis Powers
 Germany-Adolf Hitler
 Italy-Benito Mussolini
 Japan-Emperor
Hirohito
Allied Powers
 Great Britain- Winston
Churchill
 United States-
Franklin Roosevelt
and Harry Truman
 Soviet Union-Josef
Stalin

7. VS.

8.  Just like WWI, two sides formed in
World War 2.
 Axis Powers- Germany, Italy and
Japan
 Allies- Great Britain, Soviet Union
(Russia and other smaller
countries) France, Australia, New
Zealand and the United States
 Others were involved and many
countries decided to remain
neutral just like WW1.

9.  Germany invades Poland in September
1939.
 Great Britain, France, Australia and New
Zealand declare war on Germany to help
protect Poland.

10. Germany
invaded
Poland in1939
Nazi Germany
Invaded Denmark
and Norway in
1940
One month later,
Germany invades
France, Belgium,
Luxembourg
and Netherlands

11. By 1942,
Germany and
the Axis
Powers
would
dominate
most of
Europe
and
have the
Allies
at a great
disadvantage.

12. Holocaust
 The execution of 6 million Jews by
German Nazis during WWII.
 The Nazis did not want to just exterminate
the Jewish race, but also humiliate the
people and their culture.
 Concentration camps, ghettoes, and
extermination camps would be built all
over Nazi-occupied Europe.

13. Holocaust
 The Nazis would transport Jewish people
and political prisoners all over Europe In
cattle cars were they would be packed
inside without food or water to await
starvation and death.

14. Holocaust
 The Nazis established several
extermination camps throughout Europe.
 The largest camps were at Treblinka,
Majdanek, Chelmno, Sobibor, Belzec and
Auschwitz.
 More than one million people died in
Auschwitz making it the most deadly of all
of the camps.

15. Map of Extermination Camps

16. “Arbeit Macht Frei”- translates
to “Work will set you free”-
Seen
on the entrance to Auschwitz
Death camp were Nazi
prisoners worked themselves
to death during the Holocaust.
Inside the
gas
Chamber of
Auschwitz
Extermination
Camp

17. United States enters the War
 Why did the US enter?
 On December 7th, 1941, Japan bombed
the Pearl Harbor U.S. Naval Base and a
war in the Pacific Ocean began between
Allies and Axis Powers of the Second
World War. This attack would
bring the United States into
the conflict as President
Roosevelt declared war on
Japan.

18. Overview of
Pearl Harbor
Explosion from
Japanese attack

19. Stalingrad
 Germany invaded Russia (Soviet
Union) at city of Stalingrad
 Lasted from August 21,1942-
February 2,1943
 Soviet Military was able to push
Germany out of the Soviet Union
 Was turning point in war against
Germany

20.  In western Europe, a secret invasion was
planned to liberate France and Belgium. This
invasion was known as D-Day and was led by
General Dwight D. Eisenhower. Once France
and Belgium were free, the Allies invaded
Germany.
One May 8th, 1945, Germany
surrendered as a result of the D-
Day invasion, but fighting
continued in the Pacific.

21.  President Harry Truman became president
following the death of President Franklin D.
Roosevelt.
 One of his first decisions = should U.S. use
atomic weapons
On August 6th, 1945, the US dropped
a bomb on Hiroshima, Japan.
On August 9th, 1945, the US dropped
a second bomb on Nagasaki, Japan.

22. A nuclear weapon of the
"Little Boy" type, the uranium
gun-type detonated over
Hiroshima. It is 28 inches in
diameter and 120 inches
long. "Little Boy" weighed
about 9,000 pounds and had
a yield approximating 15,000
tons of high explosives.
(Copy from U.S. National
Archives, RG 77-AEC)
A nuclear weapon of the "Fat Man"
type, the plutonium implosion type
detonated over Nagasaki. 60 inches
in diameter and 128 inches long, the
weapon weighed about 10,000
pounds and had a yield
approximating 21,000 tons of high
explosives (Copy from U.S. National
Archives, RG 77-AEC)

23. The mushroom cloud
billowing up 20,000 feet
over Hiroshima on the
morning of August 6, 1945
(Photo from U.S. National
Archives, RG 77-AEC)

24.  Following the use of atomic weapons
in August of 1945, Japan surrendered
and the War in the Pacific was over.
The bombs on Hiroshima and
Nagasaki ended World War II.

25. Effects of World War II
 Thirty to forty-five million people lost their lives.
 Germany (and its capital, Berlin) was divided and
made into two countries. East Germany was
communist. West Germany became a democracy.
 The U.S. and the Soviet Union become
the main two world powers and
competition between the countries would
lead to the COLD WAR.
 The United Nations was formed.

27. West
Berliners
watching
over the
wall at those
in
Communist
East Berlin.

28. West Berliners help East Berliners
escape over the Berlin Wall

29. East Berliners
smash down the Berlin Wall

30. East Berliners run through the
Berlin Wall
Germany is reunited!!!!!