APUSH UNIT NINE Chapter 25 The Global Crisis
APUSH UNIT NINE Chapter 25: The Global Crisis, 19211924
Washington Conference of 1921
Kellogg-Briand Pact
Fascism
Il Duce – Benito Mussolini
Der Fuhrer- Adolf Hitler
Aggressive Militarism
Prelude to War… n Manchuria (1931)
FDR’s Policies 1933 -1938 n n Good Neighbor Policy Pan – American Conference… Cuba… Mexico…
n n London Economic Conference… U. S. S. R. …. Philippines… Tariff Reduction…
Cordell Hull
American Isolationism n n Nye Committee… Neutrality Act…
n n Spanish Civil War… America First Committee…
Ethiopia (1935)
Quarantine Speech
Munich Conference n Appeasement
Rhineland (1936)
China (1937)
Anschluss (1938)
Sudetenland (1938)
Czechoslovakia (1939)
Hitler-Stalin Nonaggression Pact
September 1, 1939
Blitzkrieg
Phony War
Maginot Line
France (1940)
The Miracle at Dunkirk
Battle of Britain
London Blitz
Winston Churchill
Changing U. S. Policy n n n “Cash and Carry”… Selective Service Act… Destroyers for Bases…
Election of 1940 n Wendell Wilkie
“The Arsenal of Democracy”
n “Four Freedoms”
Lend-Lease Act
Operation Barbarossa n n n Hitler …(Mein Kampf) June 22, 1941 Germany attacks the USSR 3 million troops quickly take 500, 000 square miles.
Atlantic Charter
n n “Shoot on Sight”… Economic Sanctions on Japan…
December 7, 1941
n n n “This is a day that will live in infamy” – FDR Congress… Germany and Italy…
“We have awokened a sleeping giant and filled him with great resolve. ” Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto
World War II Alliances n Allied Powers n n United States Great Britain Soviet Union Axis Powers n n n Germany Japan Italy
APUSH UNIT NINE Chapter 26: America in a World at War
Spring 1940 -Summer 1941 n Axis Powers n n n n Germany Italy Japan Romania Bulgaria Hungary Libya n Allied Powers n n Great Britain (and her colonies) French colonies
European Theatre
Operation Barbarossa
Hitler is prepared for a 10 week war n n n “scorched earth” … Soviets… Germans….
Russian Winter n n Germans have no… Soviets counterattack Just like Napoleon… First time in WWII….
Siege of Leningrad n n Germans … Population starves … n n “jellied meat” Over one million civilians die…
Erwin Rommel “Desert Fox”
Stalingrad – The Turning Point of the War
Urban Warfare
Teheran Conference
Italy n n n (July 1943 -September 1943) To open up a third front on Germany … Italy surrenders… April 1945…
Normandy Invasion –June 6, 1944 n Operation Overlord – D-Day n n n Led by U. S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower Troops used deception… Heavy losses but successful within 1 month – 1 million troops land in France
Battle of the Bulge – n n Last desperate German counterattack… Germans use deception… (Christmas 1944)
Yalta Conference
April 12, 1945 n n FDR entering his fourth term as president dies of a brain hemorrhage… Harry Truman becomes president
April 30, 1945 n As Soviet tanks roll overhead ….
May 8, 1945 n. VE Day
Holocaust
“Island Hopping”
World War II: The Home Front n n New Deal Ends… War Production Board Office of War Mobilization Industrial Output n n Henry Kaiser Office of Price Administration Unions Financing the War
WWII and American Society n African Americans… n n “Double V” Campaign CORE… n Mexican Americans n n “Braceros” “Zoot Suit” Riots
n Native Americans n n Code Talkers Ira Hayes…
Women
Radar & Sonar
Japanese Americans n Internment Camps n Korematsu v United States (1944)
Pacific Theatre
Bataan Death March
Battle of the Coral Sea n Battle of Aircraft carriers… (May 1942)
Battle of Midway (June 1942) n Turning point of the war in the Pacific…
“Island Hopping”
Leyte Gulf (October 1944)
Phillipines n (October 1944) General Douglas Mac. Arthur had claimed “I Shall Return”
Iwo Jima (February/March 1945)
Okinawa (April – June 1945) n n More than 250 U. S. ships damaged by Kamikaze - “Divine Wind”…. Their determination proved that the Japanese would not surrender…
The Manhattan Project n Albert Einstein n Enrico Fermi
Locations
Oak Ridge
Los Alamos
The Trinity Test n July 16, 1945: the first atomic bomb was exploded at the Alamogordo air base near Albuquerque, NM.
August 6, 1945 n n The U. S. B-29 bomber “Enola Gay” dropped the first atomic bomb “Little Boy” on the city of Hiroshima… Over 200, 000 would die as a result….
August 9, 1945 n n The U. S. B-29 bomber “Bockscar” dropped the second atomic bomb “Fat Man” on the city of Nagasaki… Over 150, 000 would die as a result…
“Let there be no mistake about it. I regarded the bomb as a military weapon and never had any doubt that it should be used. ” -Harry S. Truman
September 2, 1945 n VJ n Day – The Japanese surrender aboard the USS Missouri
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