World War II Allied Powers Great Britain France

World War II Allied Powers • • Great Britain France USSR (Soviet Union) United States Axis Powers • Germany • Italy • Japan

1933 Hitler establishes the Third Reich and announces his intent to rearm Germany

1933 Hitler establishes the Third Reich and announces his intent to rearm Germany 1936 1. 2. Hitler invades the Rhineland (territory lost in the Treaty of Versailles) Japan, Germany, and Italy form the Axis powers

1933 Hitler establishes the Third Reich and announces his intent to rearm Germany 1936 1. 2. 1938 1. 2. 3. Hitler invades the Rhineland (territory lost in the Treaty of Versailles) Japan, Germany, and Italy form the Axis powers Hitler invades Austria (Anschluss) Munich Conference (Britain, France, Germany, and Italy meet to discuss aggression) Hitler is granted the Sudetenland

1933 Hitler establishes the Third Reich and announces his intent to rearm Germany 1936 1. 2. 1938 1. 2. 3. 1939 1940 1. 2. Hitler invades the Rhineland (territory lost in the Treaty of Versailles) Japan, Germany, and Italy form the Axis powers Hitler invades Austria Munich Conference (Britain, France, Germany, and Italy meet to discuss aggression) Hitler is granted the Sudetenland Hitler invades Czechoslovakia Germany and Italy sign a Nonagression Pact (agree not to invade each other and to split control of Poland) 3. Hitler invades Poland using Blitzkrieg (“lightning war”) * officially begins World War II * Hitler takes France

1941 Hitler invades Russia

The Holocaust • Nazi ideology and policies: – Germanic peoples were a “master race” – Non-Germanic peoples were inferior – Nuremberg Laws (1935): deprived Jews of German citizenship, outlawed mixed marriages, limited the kinds of work Jews could perform – Jews were moved into segregated areas called ghettos

The Holocaust

The Holocaust

The Holocaust

The Holocaust • Hitler’s “Final Solution” – The systematic killing of an entire people – Killing squads – Concentration camps (forced labor, extreme brutality, poor living conditions) – Gas chambers killed thousands and their bodies were burned

The Holocaust

1941 Japan bombs Pearl Harbor

1941 Japan bombs Pearl Harbor 1942 Allied forces attack Japan at Guadalcanal Japan Hawaii (Pearl Harbor) Guadalcanal

“Island Hopping” in the Pacific • Douglas Mac. Arthur (Pacific Allied commander) • “island hop” – skip past Japanese strongholds; attack only islands that were not well-defended but were closer to Japan

1943 1944 German forces are defeated in Russia at the city of Stalingrad (combination of Russian troops & winter) Allied forces attack German-occupied France at the Beach of Normandy (D-Day)

1945 - The End of the War • Mussolini is shot and dragged through the streets of Italy. His body is hung in Milan for public viewing.

1945 - The End of the War • Hitler commits suicide and Germany surrenders to the Allies.

1945 - The End of the War • The United States drops the Atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan. 150, 000 people are instantly killed. Thousands more die from burns and radiation. Less than one month later, Japan surrenders.