Munich Pact Britain and France

• Munich Pact – Britain and France gave Hitler the Sudetenland • Submit to Hitler’s demands to keep the peace

appeasement • Munich Pact – Britain and France gave Hitler the Sudetenland • Submit to Hitler’s demands to keep the peace

• 38 th Parallel dividing line • Communist North crosses the 38 th parallel to invade Democratic South • Mac. Arthur pushed Communists North • China became involved and pushed US out of country

Korean War • 38 th Parallel dividing line • Communist North crosses the 38 th parallel to invade Democratic South • Mac. Arthur pushed Communists North • China became involved and pushed US out of country

• • Beginning of WWII in Europe Isolationism Quarantine Speech Neutrality Acts

FDR’s Policies • • Beginning of WWII in Europe Isolationism Quarantine Speech Neutrality Acts

• Collective security organization • If one country is attacked, the others will come to its defense • USA • Britain • France • Canada • Italy

NATO • Collective security organization • If one country is attacked, the others will come to its defense • USA • Britain • France • Canada • Italy

• Collective security organization • If one country is attacked, the others will come to its defense • Soviet Union

Warsaw Pact • Collective security organization • If one country is attacked, the others will come to its defense • Soviet Union

• • • Lightening war Hitler’s military strategy Poland Denmark Norway France

Blitzkrieg • • • Lightening war Hitler’s military strategy Poland Denmark Norway France

• Economic Aid to Western Europe • Containment Policy

Marshall Plan • Economic Aid to Western Europe • Containment Policy

• Military assistance to countries threatened by communists • Containment Policy

Truman Doctrine • Military assistance to countries threatened by communists • Containment Policy

• Save American lives • Japan’s unconditional surrender • Show Stalin the power the US had at its disposal

Decision to drop A- bomb • Save American lives • Japan’s unconditional surrender • Show Stalin the power the US had at its disposal

• Keep Communism where it exists • Do not let Communism spread to new nations

Containment • Keep Communism where it exists • Do not let Communism spread to new nations

• Stalin closed roads leading to Democratic island in East Germany • Soviet Union Blockade of West • 15 months • US & western powers flew supplies in to maintain Democracy • Part of Containment policy

Berlin Airlift • Stalin closed roads leading to Democratic island in East Germany • Soviet Union Blockade of West • 15 months • US & western powers flew supplies in to maintain Democracy • Part of Containment policy

• Pacific Theater • A-Bomb dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki • August 15, 1945 • End

V-J Day • Pacific Theater • A-Bomb dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki • August 15, 1945 • End

• Appeasement • Britain and France Gave Hitler the Sudetenland • Keep peace to prevent war

Munich Pact • Appeasement • Britain and France Gave Hitler the Sudetenland • Keep peace to prevent war

• Marshall Plan • Truman Doctrine • Berlin Airlift

Containment Examples • Marshall Plan • Truman Doctrine • Berlin Airlift

• NATO: North Atlantic Treaty Organization • Warsaw Pact • SETO: Southeast Asia Treaty Organization

Collective Security Examples • NATO: North Atlantic Treaty Organization • Warsaw Pact • SETO: Southeast Asia Treaty Organization

• Germany • Third Reich • Nazi Party

Hitler • Germany • Third Reich • Nazi Party

• • Militarism Totalitarian dictators One political party State more important than individual

Fascism • • Militarism Totalitarian dictators One political party State more important than individual

• Separated democratic west from communist east • No political or economic exchange • Churchill named

Iron Curtain • Separated democratic west from communist east • No political or economic exchange • Churchill named

• Leader of the Manhattan project • Said, “Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. ” • A-bomb and destructive power

Robert Oppenheimer • Leader of the Manhattan project • Said, “Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. ” • A-bomb and destructive power

• Secret project • Develop the A-bomb

Manhattan Project • Secret project • Develop the A-bomb

• • Final Solution Auschwitz Genocide Jews Extermination Gypsies Homosexuals

Holocaust • • Final Solution Auschwitz Genocide Jews Extermination Gypsies Homosexuals

• Outlawed war • Weak agreement • Could not enforce dictates

Kellogg-Briand Pact • Outlawed war • Weak agreement • Could not enforce dictates

• Causes: – Embargo on Japan – Japanese Imperialism – US Navy blocked expansion in Pacific • • December 7, 1941 “day that will live in infamy. ” FDR US became involved in WWII Declared war on Japan

Pearl Harbor • Causes: – Embargo on Japan – Japanese Imperialism – US Navy blocked expansion in Pacific • • December 7, 1941 “day that will live in infamy. ” FDR US became involved in WWII Declared war on Japan

• • Mac. Arthur “I shall return” Japanese Attack Bataan Death March

Philippines • • Mac. Arthur “I shall return” Japanese Attack Bataan Death March

• • • US strategy in Pacific Clear out Japs Iwo Jima Guadalcanal Okinawa

Island Hopping • • • US strategy in Pacific Clear out Japs Iwo Jima Guadalcanal Okinawa

• Supreme Court decision • Internment Constitutional if military emergency • Japanese

Korematsu v. US • Supreme Court decision • Internment Constitutional if military emergency • Japanese

• • Low interest home loans to veterans Job priority Education Expanded the middle class

GI Bill • • Low interest home loans to veterans Job priority Education Expanded the middle class

• • • US v. USSR Brinkmanship Nuclear War Naval blockade of Cuba USSR backed down and removed missiles US agreed to remove missiles from Turkey

Cuban Missile Crisis • • • US v. USSR Brinkmanship Nuclear War Naval blockade of Cuba USSR backed down and removed missiles US agreed to remove missiles from Turkey

• Last German offensive • Named because line fanned out • General Patton rescued Allied troops

Battle of the Bulge • Last German offensive • Named because line fanned out • General Patton rescued Allied troops

• Soviet Union’s land • German expansion of land • Would give land for the Third Reich to last 1000 years

Lebensraum • Soviet Union’s land • German expansion of land • Would give land for the Third Reich to last 1000 years

• France captured by Hitler • Battle of Britain • German expansion threat to US democracy • Possibility of Britain falling to Germans

FDR’s Reasons to go to war • France captured by Hitler • Battle of Britain • German expansion threat to US democracy • Possibility of Britain falling to Germans

• • UN Authorize military action Five permanent members USSR Britain France China US

Security Council • • UN Authorize military action Five permanent members USSR Britain France China US

• US could not sell weapons to nations at war • US could not become involved in WWII

Neutrality Act • US could not sell weapons to nations at war • US could not become involved in WWII

• Germany • Italy • Japan

Axis Powers • Germany • Italy • Japan

• US • Britain • USSR

Allies • US • Britain • USSR

• Loan war materials to nations that were vital to maintain US democracy • “Give a hose to a neighbor” • Policy for loaning war materials to Britain

Lend-Lease • Loan war materials to nations that were vital to maintain US democracy • “Give a hose to a neighbor” • Policy for loaning war materials to Britain

• • Operation Overlord planned invasion The day of the invasion French beaches Landing of allied forces Normandy Omaha Utah Paratroopers dropped behind the lines

D-Day • • Operation Overlord planned invasion The day of the invasion French beaches Landing of allied forces Normandy Omaha Utah Paratroopers dropped behind the lines

• • • Pacific turning point Nimitz Sunk Japanese fleet Let US fight an offensive war in Pacific Japan went on the defensive

Midway • • • Pacific turning point Nimitz Sunk Japanese fleet Let US fight an offensive war in Pacific Japan went on the defensive

• • Mass produced homes Affordable GI’s could use V-A loan to buy suburbs

Levittowns • • Mass produced homes Affordable GI’s could use V-A loan to buy suburbs

• • • Hitler Exterminate Jews Genocide Poland Death Camps

Final Solution • • • Hitler Exterminate Jews Genocide Poland Death Camps

• Blitzkrieg Poland • Failure of Appeasement • Britain and France declare War

WWII Beginning • Blitzkrieg Poland • Failure of Appeasement • Britain and France declare War

• • Soviet Union Germany Promise to not attack one another Hitler signed without the intention of keeping his promise to not attack: he wanted lebensraum in USSR

Non-Aggression Pact • • Soviet Union Germany Promise to not attack one another Hitler signed without the intention of keeping his promise to not attack: he wanted lebensraum in USSR

• • US spy plane Shot down Gary Powers captured by soviets Eisenhower denied that US was spying on USSR

U-2 Incident • • US spy plane Shot down Gary Powers captured by soviets Eisenhower denied that US was spying on USSR

• Sustained bombing of London • German air raids • Royal Air Force fought Germans in the sky

Battle of Britain • Sustained bombing of London • German air raids • Royal Air Force fought Germans in the sky

• • Trials War crimes of Nazi leaders Holocaust Crimes against Humanity

Nuremburg Trials • • Trials War crimes of Nazi leaders Holocaust Crimes against Humanity

• Economic cooperation between US and Latin America • Containment policy • John F. Kennedy

Alliance for Progress • Economic cooperation between US and Latin America • Containment policy • John F. Kennedy

• Failed • Covert operation that started with Eisenhower and took place during Kennedy • CIA trained Cuban exiles • Overthrow Fidel Castro

Bay of Pigs • Failed • Covert operation that started with Eisenhower and took place during Kennedy • CIA trained Cuban exiles • Overthrow Fidel Castro

• Ended Cuban Missile Crisis • Limited nuclear testing • Installed hot line between Kremlin and White House

Test-Ban treaty • Ended Cuban Missile Crisis • Limited nuclear testing • Installed hot line between Kremlin and White House

• Symbol of communism • Separated democratic west from communist east • Stood for a quarter of century

Berlin Wall • Symbol of communism • Separated democratic west from communist east • Stood for a quarter of century

• Led communist revolution in China

Mao Tse-tung • Led communist revolution in China

• Turning point • European Theater • Soviet Union fought off 90, 000 German troops • US did not send help • Created tension between the US & USSR

Battle of Stalingrad • Turning point • European Theater • Soviet Union fought off 90, 000 German troops • US did not send help • Created tension between the US & USSR

• Strong woman during WWII • Worked in factory in traditional man’s job • Filled the gap left by men serving in war

Rosie the Riveter • Strong woman during WWII • Worked in factory in traditional man’s job • Filled the gap left by men serving in war

• • WAC: Women’s Army Corps Tuskegee Airmen Code Talkers 442 nd

Minorities in Service WWII • • WAC: Women’s Army Corps Tuskegee Airmen Code Talkers 442 nd

• • • Planned Pacific War Japan Unconditional Surrender Truman & Stalin Truman revealed A-Bomb Stalin wanted reparations – Truman told him to take them out of his occupation zone

Potsdam Conference • • • Planned Pacific War Japan Unconditional Surrender Truman & Stalin Truman revealed A-Bomb Stalin wanted reparations – Truman told him to take them out of his occupation zone

• Big Three – Stalin – Churchill – Roosevelt • Declaration of a liberated Europe – Free Elections in future • Created four occupation zones • Conference scheduled to create United Nations

Yalta Conference • Big Three – Stalin – Churchill – Roosevelt • Declaration of a liberated Europe – Free Elections in future • Created four occupation zones • Conference scheduled to create United Nations

• May 8, 1945 • Hitler committed suicide on April 30, 1945 • Germany unconditional surrender

V-E Day • May 8, 1945 • Hitler committed suicide on April 30, 1945 • Germany unconditional surrender

• • Pamphlets Newsreel Posters Magazines

Propaganda • • Pamphlets Newsreel Posters Magazines

• • • North Africa Rommel: German Commander Eisenhower: Commander of Allied Forces Patton: US Commander Invasion to create a launch pad for a mainland invasion through Italy

Operation Torch • • • North Africa Rommel: German Commander Eisenhower: Commander of Allied Forces Patton: US Commander Invasion to create a launch pad for a mainland invasion through Italy

• Freedom of speech and expression • Freedom of every person to worship God in his own way • Freedom from want • Freedom from fear

Four Freedoms • Freedom of speech and expression • Freedom of every person to worship God in his own way • Freedom from want • Freedom from fear

• • African Americans Moved North Escape discrimination Job opportunities in north

Northern Migration • • African Americans Moved North Escape discrimination Job opportunities in north