World War II The Making of a New Global Order. Japanese Expansion Before World War II Reasons for:...

World War IIThe Making of a New

Global Order

Japanese Expansion Before World War II

Reasons for:

•Militarists leaders

Results

•Earlier occupation of Manchuria

•Now in 1937, invasion of China proper

-Signaled suspicious intentions

•Results:

European Aggression Before World War IIRoad to War

1. Mid 1930s: Hitler withdraws from League of Nations and built up army – direct violation of Treaty of Versailles

2. G.B and France seem to ignore Hitler (appeasement!) and Hitler “annexes” Austria in 1938 and eyes Czechoslovakia

3. In 1939, Hitler invades Poland and agrees to “split it” with the Soviet (both intend to go-back on this plan, however

Reasons for Appeasement1. G.B./France/U.S. (all democracies)

greatly fear war2. They fear communism more than

Germany3. At a conference in Munich in 1939 (after

Germany takes Austria), the soon-to-be Allied powers allow Hitler to have the German portions of Czechoslovakia if he promises to take no more (they believe him)

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Aggression in Europe, Africa and Asia, 1930-1939

Illusion of Peace

•Neville Chamberlain, "peace in our time.“•APPEASEMENT!

Hitler's Goal•World domination

Frank & Marie-Therese Wood Print Collections, Alexandria, VA.

Invasion of Poland

London Blitz

North Africa and Europe •Hitler's goal: Force G.B. out

of the war (or to surrender) before the Americans (with their potential for industrial might) can save them

•Battle of Britain foiled this plan

•1941: Hitler launched a massive invasion of Soviets

•Lessons learned from Napoleon?

•Germans also defeated at El Alamein early in the war

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World War II in Asia and the Pacific, 1941-1945

The Beginning of the End—Europe • Soviets– advances

in the East• Western invasion • D-Day– invasion of

European mainland•Onward to Paris!

• Germany defeated May 1945

National ArchivesD-Day 1944

Japan will not go easily…• When this photo of

the atomic bombing of Nagasaki was taken on August 9, 1945, from an observation plane 6 miles up, 35,000 people on the ground had died.

August 6, 1945

Hiroshima National Archives.

And In China…

Chairman Mao

•People’s Republic of China

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