World War II: 1939-1945

1. Leading up to the War---Rise of the Nazi Party

```````Germany in economic turmoil

------Adolph Hitler disillusioned WW I veteran

-----scapegoating: gov't, Jews, LGBT, Socialists

-----elected into Reichstag in 1933, becomes Chancellor

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2. Nazi Expansion pre-WW 2:

````-Rhineland, Austria, Sudetenland, rest of Czechoslovakia

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3. Poland invaded in 1939, WW II starts

````````France defeated in 6 weeks

4. The Blitz

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---Hitler stops the Blitz

`````````British use of radar

------attack the Soviet Union---June, 1941

-----actions leading to the Holocaust

5. Trouble mounting in Asia

`--------`Japanese expansion in Asia

----------Pearl Harbor, December 1941

```````````````````U.S. in War----troops sent to Asia, but focus on Europe

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6. The Big Three: FDR, Churchill and Stalin

````````````````Stalin wants a second front

````````````````North Africa, Italy, and the Holocaust

7. D- Day June 6, 1944

`````````````Allied troops move in towards Germany

`````````````Yalta, February, 1945

----------FDR dies, April 1945

-----------VE Day, May 8, 1945

-----Potsdam, July, 1945

----V-J Day, September 1945

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8. The Homefront.

Your textbook's video on U.S. Homefront during WW II: Link

---------Japanese Internment

-------- Women Workers

--------- Double V movement

-----------Zoom Suit Riots

Watch: Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter:

Cold War begins----tensions over Germany and Eastern Europe