World War II

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Causes Europe The Pacific

Nationalism -Germany -UK -Japan -USA
Racism -Italy -USA -China
Resources -Bulgaria -France -UK
-Food -Romania -Poland -Australia
-Land -Hungary -Netherlands -France
-Oil
-USSR -USSR
Causes-Germany

Hyperinflation and an
economy in shambles
Causes-Germany

-The Weimar Republic

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-Dolchstolegende
Stab-in-the-back

-Lost Germans
-Lebensraum

-Aryan domination

-Resources

Goals-Germany
-Militant Nationalism

-Agricultural Land

-Oil

-Invasion of Manchuria

Causes-Japan
The War in the Pacific-1931-1941

-1931-Invasion of Manchuria
-1937-Second Sino-Japanese War
-Dec 1937-Rape of Nanking
Three Alls Policy
-June 1938-Yellow River Flood
-July 1939-US Withdraws from commercial
treaties
-September 1940-Invaion of French
Indochina
-August 1941-US Oil Embargo
-Dec 7 1941-Invade Malaya, Hong Kong,
Thailand, Philippines
Pearl Harbor-December 7, 1941

18 American ships sunk or destroyed

188 US Aircraft

2403 Men and Women killed, including

civilians

December 8-US Declares War

December 11-Germany, Italy, and US

declare war on each other
Japanese Internment

February 1942-March 1946

110,000-120,000 Japanese

62% American citizens

442nd Regimental Combat Team

-Battle of Midway June 1942-Ended Japanese expansion
-Guadalcanal Campaign August 1942-February 1943-First
American offensive campaign
-Battle of the Philippine Sea-June 1944-Japanese carrier
force destroyed
-Battle of Leyte Gulf-October 1944-Largest naval battle
in World history, effective end of the Japanese Navy, first
kamikaze attacks

The War in the Pacific

-Battle of Iwo Jima February 1945-5-week battle, 25,000
American casualties, 216 Japanese survivors out of
21,000
-Battle of Okinawa April-June 1945-Japanese home
island, 150,000 civilian deaths (50% of the population),
541,000 American troops, 106,000 Japanese troops,
175,000 casualties, 400+ ships damaged or sunk, 800+
middle school students killed

The War in the Pacific Part 2

Pacific War in 1945

-Philippines casualties 5:1

-Okinawa casualties 2:1
-99% of Japanese defenders on Iwo
Jima dies
-94% on Okinawa
-Japanese merchant fleet 1/10th
-Commercial catch 22%
-1943 US produced 100,000 aircraft
-Japan produced 70,000 in the war
-Mid-1944 US has 100 aircraft carriers
Firebombing Campaign

-Operation Meetinghouse

-May 1945 75% of bombs are incendiary

-Over 100 cities and towns

Operation Downfall

2.3 million Japanese troops in

Japan
28 million civilian militia
Japan estimated 20 million deaths

Estimates:
130,000-4 million US casualties
25,000-800,000 US deaths
Chemical weapons moved into
place
Manhattan Project
-130,000 employees, $2 billion cost

Hiroshima
-August 6
-20,000 soldiers, 70-126,000 civilians

Nagasaki
-August 9
-40-80,000 civilian deaths

The Atomic Bomb

World War II in Europe
The War in Europe

-September 1, 1939-Germany Invades

Poland
-September 17-USSR Invades Poland
-October 12-First Jews deported
occupied areas
-November 30-USSR Invades Finland
-April 1940-USSR massacres 22,000
Polish officers and police
-May 10-Germany invades France,
Belgium, Luxembourg and the
Netherlands
-July to October-Battle of Britain
The War in Europe-1941

-February 11-Afrika Korps arrives in

Tripoli
-March-US begins Lend-Lease
-June-USSR begins deporting Baltic
civilians to Siberia-60,000
-June 22-Operation Barbarossa
-July 31-Hitler asks for final solution
-December-Nazi invasion stalls, sieges
begin in Leningrad and Stalingrad.
The War in Europe-1942-1943

-November 1942-Operation Torch, 2nd

Battle of El Alamein
-November 19-USSR operation to lift siege
of Stalingrad
-November 22-German 6th Army surrounded
-January 1943-Casablanca Conference of
Allies calls for unconditional surrender
-January 31-6th Army surrenders
-May-Afrika Korps surrenders
-July 10-Invasion of Sicily
-September 3-Invasion of Italy
The War in Europe 1944-1945

-January 1944-Siege of Leningrad lifted

-June 6, 1944-D-Day Invasion of France
-June 22-Operation Bagration
-July 24-Mjadanek Concentration camp liberated
-August-Warsaw Uprising begins
-August 25-Paris liberated
-September 10-Allies enter Germany
-December 16-Battle of the Bulge
-February 1945-Yalta Conference
-April 21-Soviets enter Berlin
-April 30-Hitler commits suicide
-May 8-V-E Day