Transcript of World War 2--1937-1945 Why did WW2 happen? What was WW2? Why did the allies win? Who “won” WW2?
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- World War 2--1937-1945 Why did WW2 happen? What was WW2? Why
did the allies win? Who won WW2?
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- Tonight the sun goes down on more suffering than ever before in
the world. The bloodiest war ever: 50-85 million dead, mostly
civilians from bombing, starvation, genocide, and mass murder
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- Fighting across the world on land, sea, air, and under waterin
deserts, jungles, arctic freeze, cities
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- What caused WW2? Complicated, but many think that WW2 in Europe
was really a continuation of WW1.
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- WW2 was not really one war, but was several conflicts lumped
together 1937: Japan invades China 1939: Germany invades Poland
1939: Soviet Union attacks Finland 1940: Italy attacks Greece 1941:
Germany invades Soviet Union 1941: Japan attacks U.S. (Pearl
Harbor) Many countries switched sides during the course of the war
Numerous civil wars (Italy, Yugoslavia, China)
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- OPPOSING SIDES AXIS POWERS vs Germany + Austria Japan Italy
Hungary Romania Finland ALLIED POWERS Soviet Union Britain U.S.
France China Belgium Holland Poland Yugoslavia Greece Australia
Canada New Zealand
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- Germany invades Poland Sept. 1, 1939 Surprise attack Blitzkrieg
use of armor and swift attacks German warplanes invaded Polish air
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- Germany and Soviet Union Divide Poland
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- Germany conquers Europe April-June 1940, German blitzkrieg
through: Denmark, Norway, Belgium, Holland, and France British
retreat from Dunkirk Pro-Nazi French puppet govt set up in city of
Vichy (Vichy France)
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- France falls in six weeks
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- Germans outnumbered-even early in WW2 When Germany attacked
France in May 1940, British and French had more, troops, more
artillery, more tanks Germans concentrated their armor, more
powerful, more mobile Germans also had more planes
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- Nazi Luftwaffe attacks Britain Battle of Britain, summer of
1940. British Royal Air Force victorious, averts German invasion of
Britain 60,000 civilian dead
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- April 1941 Germany overruns the Balkans Italy and Greece
fighting; not going well for the Italians Hitler steps in to save
the Italians, German occupies Yugoslavia and Greece. Few casualties
but German invasion of USSR is delayed
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- Operation Barbarossa: June 1941, Germans attack USSR, The
Eastern Front over 2,000 miles long 6 million Soviet troops vs. 3
million Germans, Hungarians, Romanians, Finns By December 1941, 6
months into the war, Soviets had lost 4 million soldiers, 8,000
aircraft, 17,000 tanks By the end of the War of 27 million Soviet
soldiers and civilians died 10 million Germans killed, wounded or
captured
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- January 1942 Final Solution to the Jewish Question SS Head
Heinrich HimmlReinhard Heydrich
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- Russo-German War 1941-45; largest war in history 5-6 million
Soviet POWs-- more than 3 million died 2 million Germans captured,
more than a 1 million disappeared. Only 5,000 of 90,000 Germans
captured at Stalingrad in 1943 ever returned
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- it was incredibly brutal
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- atrocities were widespread
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- War in Asia: Japanese Expansion Greater East Asia Co-prosperity
Sphere
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- 1937 Japan invades China 1931 - Invades Manchuria December 1937
Rape of Nanjing 250-300,000 Chinese dead, at least 20,000 raped.
50% of the population People were bayoneted, buried and burned
alive, beheaded.
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- The Pacific War In 1940, United States and Great Britain
reacted to Japanese expansion with an oil boycott (Japan got 80% of
its oil from West). In December 1941, Japan attacked the Allied
powers at Pearl Harbor and several other points throughout the
Pacific, destroying much of the US navy. The turning point in the
Pacific War was the battle of Midway in June 1942. From then on,
the Allied forces slowly won back the territories occupied by Japan
including Saipan. In 1944, intensive air raids started over Japan.
In spring 1945, US forces invaded Okinawa in one of the war's
bloodiest battles.
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- Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, 1941 A date which will live in infamy
-FDR American losses: 8 of 8 battleships destroyed or damaged More
than 2,400 military dead Nearly 350 aircraft destroyed or
damaged
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- 1942: Tide of Japanese conquest Philippines U.S.) Hong Kong
(British) Singapore (British) Burma (British) Dutch East Indies
(Indonesia) Numerous islands in the Pacific Indo-China (French)
Attu (Aleutians)
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- Bataan Death March 1942 76,000 Americans and Filipinos captured
in the Philippines Marched 80 miles to POW camps, thousands are
killed
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- 1942, back in Europe, the Allies counterattack 1942: Full
American support to Britain, France, Russia Strategic bombing of
Germany and Europe begins and intensifies oBritish and Americans
push back German forces in North Africa oRussians counter- attack
at Stalingrad
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- 1943: The Allies invade Italy July, allies take Sicily and
attack mainland September, Italy surrenders Germany invades, civil
war in Italy. Fascists under Mussolini against communists,
socialists and other partisans Bloody fighting last nearly 2 years.
Mussolini executed April 1945
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- D-Day June 6, 1944 British, Americans, Canadians land in
Normandy Largest armada ever assembled, 12,000 allied planes vs.
170 German planes Germans put up fierce resistance, but landing is
successful Within 3 months, Americans are at the borders of
Germany, then are stopped
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- German submarine strategy to cut off allied supplies, fails
Convoy system works 80 % of all German submariners die
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- End of the war 1944-1945 but Germany faced overwhelming allied
armor and weapons German units, strength, often composed of wounded
soldiers, old men and boys 2 million Allied troops in the West
alone Germans had almost no air force and so little fuel that oxen
were used to tow airplanes to the runways
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- Fall of the Axis Powers 1945 Russians push Germans from Poland
Auschwitz liberated in January Russians capture Berlin in a battle
that kills another 300,000 people
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- May 1945-Germany Surrenders
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- Europe is devastated
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- In the Pacific Theater June 1942: Tide turns Battle of Midway
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- Americans island hop toward Japan Battles were bloody Japanese
fought to the death (suicide over surrender)
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- Japanese POWs Never live to experience shame as a prisoner. By
dying you will avoid leaving a stain on your honor. -Senjinkun,
Japanese Code of Battlefield Conduct Very few surrendered at first,
more as war wore on and it was clear Japan would lose.
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- By the end of 1944, Japan is basically finished U.S. submarines
cut off Japans oil supply U.S. bombing devastates Japanese mainland
Japan resorts to desperate tactics
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- Japanese kamikaze (Divine Wind)
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- Battle of Iwo Jima: Feb-Mar 1945 2 months of Allied bombardment
on island only 4.5 miles x 2.5 miles. Allies land 2,400 casualties
in the first day Nearly 7,000 Americans killed and 19,000 wounded
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most professionally skilful army of modern times,
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- U.S. drops atomic bombs on Nagasaki and Hiroshima August
1945
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- Japan surrenders September 1945
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- Japanese War Crimes Medical experiments Treatment of POWs mass
executions (Nanjing) rape and forced prostitution (Korean comfort
women)
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- Why did the Allies win? Industrial and economic power
overwhelmed outnumber German and Japanese forces, plus allied air
power and strategic bombing disrupted German and Japanese
production The German army was The most professionally skilful army
of modern times, but Hitler made huge strategic blunders,
particularly attacking the Soviet Union and insisting that his
soldiers not retreat. The Soviet Union took one for the team with
25 million dead; at times faced 98% of German forces Japan and
Germany lacked oil and in the end their militaries couldnt function
without it.
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- Legacies of World War II Increased nationalism amongst colonies
-> decolonization Unleashing of new technology-> nuclear arms
race International Human Rights (UDHR, Nuremberg and Tokyo Trials)
Creation of buffer zone for the Soviet Union (eastern Europe) Cold
war -> avoidance of a global (nuclear) war through proxy
wars
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- Famous Quotations from the Munich Pact I believe that it is
peace for our timeand now I recommend you to go home and sleep
quietly in your beds ~Neville Chamberlain, British PM Thus we begin
our march into the great German future ~Adolf Hitler Britain cannot
go to war over A quarrel in a far-away country between people of
whom we know nothing. ~Chamberlain
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- Books and Movies about WW 2 MOVIES Schindlers List The Best
Years of Our Lives Stalingrad (German) Saving Private Ryan Das Boot
(German) The Great Escape Letters from Iwo Jima Midnight Clear
BOOKS Midnight Clear Correllis Mandolin Love and War in the
Apennines (NF) Schindlers List (NF) Night (NF) Hiroshima (NF) An
Artist of the Floating World