World War II

World War II

Treaty of versailles

• Italy and Japan didn't get anything
• Germany wanted "Revenge"

Economic problems

• Great Depression
• Lack of Resources
• Aggression 

Failure of APPEASEMENT

• Gave Hitler land to stop attacking to prevent war
• Attacked

Nationalism

• Blind Faith
• Killed others for country
• Passionate fighters
• Especially Japan

Dictatorship

• Hitler - Germany
• Mussolini - Italy
• Hirohito - Japan (Emperor) 
• Controlled whole country

Causes of American Involvment

• Pearl Harbor
• End Depression
• Help Allies

Result of allied victory and use of atomic bomb on america

• America = Superpower
• Threat of Nuclear Weapons = destroy Earth
• Cold War

Effects on post-war life in america

• U.S.A. joins U.N.
• '60s civil rights
• Women get more oppotunities

United nations

• New + improved League of Nations
• U.S.A. joins
• Actually impacts internationally

Rosie the Riveter

Propaganda

D-day

• June 6th, 1944
• Air and Sea
• 2,500 Americans died
• We won

D-Day

Nuclear bomb Pros

• Ended Pacific War
• America = superpower
• Destroyed Millitary area

Nuclear bomb cons

• Killed thousands
• Radiation
• Cold War
• Threat of nuclear bomb

Holocaust

• Estimated 6,000,000 Jews dead
• Concentration camps
• Homosexuals, Jews, Poles, Gypsy's etc.

Japanese Internment

• Racism from pearl harbor
• Forced from home
• Becoming like Germany

role of women

• More women worked
• Made weapons, supplies, etc.
• Fueled the army

WORLD WAR 2 (EMPHASIS ON WORLD)

• European colonies Africa 
• Pacific America vs Japan
• Germany + Italy vs Europe