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    WORLD WAR II

    (1939-1945)
    1. ROOT CAUSES
    The Treaty of Versailles - The League of Nations - Hitler´s rise to
    power

    2. IMMEDIATE CAUSES
    System of alliances - The road to war (Appeasement policy)

    3. THE WAR
    The main events from both sides/fronts (the European side / the
    Pacific side)

    4. CONSEQUENCES
    ROOT CAUSES
    ROOT CAUSES

    ➔ Depression
    ➔ Political tension
    ➔ Treaty of Versailles
    ➔ Thirst for expansion
    ➔ Weakness of the League of Nations
    ➔ Hitler´s rise to power (including, policy of Appeasement)
    ROOT CAUSES
    ➔ Depression

    USA Britain Italy

    Japan Germany
    ROOT CAUSES
    ➔ Political tension
    ROOT CAUSES
    ➔ Treaty of Versailles
    ROOT CAUSES
    ➔ Thirst for expansion

    Germany Italy Japan


    ROOT CAUSES
    ➔ Weakness of the League of Nations

    Punch Magazine (1919, March 26)


    ROOT CAUSES
    ➔ Hitler´s rise to power
    ➔ 1889 - born in Austria
    ➔ 1913 - moved to Munich.
    ➔ 1914 - World War I broke out / Joined the 16th Bavarian Reserve
    Infantry Regiment / Deployed to Belgium
    ➔ 1919 - joined the German Workers´ Party (founded by Anton
    Drexler) in Munich
    ➔ 1920 - put in charge of the party´s propaganda / Party was
    renamed National-sozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (Nazi).
    ➔ 1921 - became leader of the party
    ROOT CAUSES
    ➔ Hitler´s rise to power
    ROOT CAUSES
    ➔ Hitler´s rise to power

    ➔ Nov 1923 - attempted to seize power of the Bavarian state

    government / Accused of treason / Sentenced to prison

    ➔ 1925 - published Mein Kampf (My Struggle / My Fight / Mi Lucha)

    ➔ 1930 - the Nazi party became the second largest party

    ➔ 1933 - became Chancellor of Germany

    ➔ Feb 1933 - Reichstag fire

    ➔ Mar 1933 - Enabling Act


    ROOT CAUSES
    ➔ Hitler´s rise to power
    ROOT CAUSES
    ➔ Hitler´s rise to power

    ➔ FOREIGN POLICY

    ◆ Undo the Treaty of Versailles

    ◆ Unite all German speaking people

    ◆ Acquire lebensraum (living space)

    ◆ Destroy Communism
    IMMEDIATE
    CAUSES
    IMMEDIATE CAUSES
    ➔ System of alliances

    ALLIES AXIS
    Soviet Union Germany
    Britain vs. Italy
    France Japan
    USA
    Soviet Union - Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)
    (1922 - 1991)
    IMMEDIATE CAUSES
    ➔ Road to war
    ➔ 1935 - Pact of mutual assistance between France and the Soviet Union

    ➔ 1935 - Hitler announced that the Germans had been secretly rearming (APPEASEMENT)
    IMMEDIATE CAUSES
    ➔ Policy of Appeasement
    IMMEDIATE CAUSES
    ➔ Road to war
    ➔ 1935 - Pact of mutual assistance between France and the Soviet Union

    ➔ 1935 - Hitler announced that the Germans had been secretly rearming (APPEASEMENT)

    ➔ 1936 - Anglo-German Naval Agreement (APPEASEMENT)

    ➔ 1936 - Germany reoccupied the Rhineland (APPEASEMENT)

    ➔ 1936 - Germany and Japan signed the Anti-Comintern Pact

    ➔ 1938 - Annexation of Austria and the Sudetenland (part of Czechoslovakia) into Nazi Germany

    (APPEASEMENT)
    IMMEDIATE CAUSES
    ➔ Road to war
    ➔ March 1939 - Germany took over the rest of Czechoslovakia (APPEASEMENT)

    ➔ May 1939 - Germany and Italy signed the Steel Pact

    ➔ August 1939 - Germany and the Soviet Union signed the Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact
    IMMEDIATE CAUSES
    ➔ Road to war

    Punch Magazine (1939)


    IMMEDIATE CAUSES
    ➔ Road to war

    Lebensraum = living space


    THE WAR
    THE WAR
    ➔ European Side
    ➔ September 1st, 1939 - Germany invaded Poland

    ➔ September 3rd, 1939 - Britain and France declared war on Germany

    ➔ September 17th, 1939 - Soviet troops invaded Poland from the east

    ➔ Sep 1939 to May 1945 - Battle of the Atlantic

    ➔ April to June 1940 - Germany attacked and conquered Denmark and Norway, and later on,
    Belgium, the Netherlands, and France (Lightning War /Blitzkrieg)

    ➔ June to October 1940 - Battle of Britain

    ➔ June 1940 - Italy declared war on France and Britain.


    THE WAR
    ➔ European Side

    ➔ August 1940 - Italy occupied British Somaliland (North Africa)

    ➔ September 1940 - Italy invaded Egypt

    ➔ June 22nd, 1941 - Germany invaded the Soviet Union

    ➔ August 1942 to February 1943 - Battle of Stalingrad (Germany's defeat)

    ➔ June 1944 - Normandy Invasion

    ➔ April 1945 - Hitler commits suicide

    ➔ May 7th, 1945 - Germany surrendered (May 8th 1945 - Victory in Europe Day or V-E Day)
    THE WAR
    ➔ Pacific Side
    THE WAR
    ➔ Pacific Side
    ➔ December 7th, 1941 - Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
    ➔ December 8th, 1941 - the US declared war on Japan
    ➔ December 11th, 1941 - Germany declared war on the USA
    ➔ June 1942 - Battle of Midday
    ➔ 1942 to 1945 - The Guadalcanal-Solomon Campaign
    ➔ February 1945 - Yalta Conference (Stalin (RSS), Roosevelt (US) and Churchill (GB))
    ➔ July 1945 - Potsdam Conference (Stalin (RSS), Truman (US) and Attlee (GB))
    ➔ July 26th, 1945 - Potsdam Declaration/Ultimatum to Japan
    ➔ August 6th, 1945 - the US dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima
    ➔ August 9th, 1945 - the US dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki
    ➔ September 2nd, 1945 - Japan formally surrendered
    Why did Truman decide to drop the
    atomic bombs?

    The lesser of two evils


    How did the dropping of these atomic bombs affect the
    relationship between the US and the Soviet Union?
    CONSEQUENCES
    CONSEQUENCES

    ➔ Enormous human and economic costs


    ➔ Germany and Berlin were divided into 4 zones of occupation.
    ➔ Americans obtained some benefits
    ➔ Creation of the United Nations
    ➔ The emergence of 2 visions of the postwar world: USA vs. URSS
    ➔ Introduction of nuclear weapons and escalation of arms race
    ➔ Cold War
    CONSEQUENCES

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