Unit 4 Digital Study Guide

Unit 4

Digital Notes

Unit 4 - World War II

These notes will take you through each test question and key topic covered this week in Unit 4. It is designed to help reinforce your knowledge and assist you on each test question. Use it while taking the test! Watch the video and click each plus sign, info button, and pin point!

Totalitarian Dictators in Europe- Between WW1 & the start of WWII several European Countries fell under the control of powerful and ruthless dictators

Joseph Stalin - U.S.S.R

Benito Mussolini - Italy

Adolf Hitler - Germany

Rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party in Germany

After World War I Germany had absorbed the blame of causing World War I - Treaty of Versailles and the financial punishment of having to pay 33 billion dollars. Their economy and government were unstable in the 1920s and it left room for the rise of political and street groups. These groups blamed others for the problems in Germany and played on the people about how they would restore Germany to greatness and get past the embarrassment of the Treaty of Versailles. The Nazis came to power during a very unstable time in Germany where they were experiencing those heavy war debts and the Global Depression had begun. They also used the feeling of the German people who felt humiliated after WWI to use nationalism in their favor. They blamed others for their problems and promised retribution - especially the Jewish population of Europe.

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Roosevelt & the War

The United States and President Roosevelt were still dealing with the Great Depression when the war in Europe began. Most Americans wanted to U.S. involvement in another European war. Therefore, President Roosevelt maintained a policy of neutrality (not choosing a side) because most Americans favored isolationism. He had his eye on supporting the Allies and began to find ways to do so without causing issues in the United States.

Lend Lease

Finally by 1940 and 1941 President Roosevelt was able to work with Congress to allow him to start supplying the Allied nations at war with significant military supplies, money, oil, etc. This would last through the entirety of the war and be a major factor in the Allied victory. Check out the video below to learn more about American manufacturing during WWII.

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Pearl Habor and the results

Japan

U.S. Japanese Relations

Had been aggressive in creating an empire in the Pacific since the early 1930s. Seeking new land and resources. Beliving in their superiority over the rest of Asia.

The U.S. was the largest supplier of oil to Japan and as a result of continued Japanese imperialism the U.S. embargoed (stopped) selling oil to Japan.

December 7,1941 - "a date which will live in infamy" changed the course of history and marks the event that causes the United States to declare war against Japan and begins U.S. military involvement in World War II.

Response

Infamy

The Japanese carried out a successful sneak attack on the Pacific Fleet on December 7th, 1941 killing 2,402. 188 aircraft, 8 U.S. Battleships were damaged, and 4 U.S. Battleships were sunk.

The Japanese were upset with the U.S. and developed a plan to bomb the Pacific Naval Fleet at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii as a preemptive strike on the U.S.

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Japanese Internment

After the attack on Pearl Harbor, in the Spring of 1942 President Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066 which stated that any person of Japanese ancestory on the West Coast of the United States be sent to live in an internment camp until the end of war. Over 100,000 Japanese Americans were sent to camps.

The Two Sides

Axis Powers

Allies

Germany Japan Italy

The United Kingdom(Great Britain, Canada, India, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa) The Soviet Union The United States

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The Holocaust

Nazi Germany committed mass genocide - the intent to destroy a group of people- of over 6 million Jews and other groups in the 1930s and 40s in Europe. The Nazis created work camps and death camps throughout Europe where Jews were shipped via train, many to their deaths. Some were just killed by Nazis in their town and buried in mass graves.

Key Terms - The Holocaust

Final Solution

Kristallnacht

Nuremberg Laws

the 1938 Nazi attack on Jewish citizens, businesses, and synagogues.

a system of concentration camps and extermination camps created to eliminate Jewish people under Nazi control

the legal justification to strip Jewish Germans of citizenship and other civil rights and privileges.

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Key Figures of World War II

J. Robert Oppenheimer

General Dwight D. Eisenhower

Admiral Chester M. Nimitz

Rosie the Riveter

Manhattan Project Director - Atomic Bomb development

a symbol of all women working in the war industries.

Pacific Commander in Chief. Land, sea, and air

Supreme Allied Commander of Allies in Europe

U.S in the Pacific

After the attack on Pearl Harbor the United States was at war with Japan and needed to gear up to take on the Japanese in the vast of the Pacific. It would take a strategy that met the geography of the Pacific and this was the island hopping strategy. Air power became vital.

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Turning Points

Check out this video on Midway and why this battle was important in the Pacific War.

European & Africa During World War II

Click on the map pin point to learn more about specific locations of what was happening there during World War II. Check out the interactive site below!

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Stalingrad

major battle on the Eastern Front of World War II when Nazi Germany and its Axis allies attacked the Soviet City of Stalingrad (named after Joseph Stalin). The city had important strategic value as it sat on the Volga River. Any military that took Stalingrad would control the river and would give an army access to the oil in the southern Soviet Union. Commonly regarded as the turning point in the war on the Eastern Front of World War II and the pushback and destruction of Nazi Germany began in the east.

Important Barrier Breakers in Service to their Country

The Pacific

European Infantry

Army Air Force

Yalta Conference - An important meeting

Go Take the Test!

Watch this quick video about the rise of Hitler and the Nazi party.

Pearl Harbor Attack

Japanese Expansion and Empire

The Arsenal of Democracy