WORLD WAR II
 (1939-45)
 
I.  Axis Powers
		A.  Italy  
   		1.  Benito Mussolini (1883-1945)
   		2.  Fascism  
  	B.  Germany
   		1.  Treaty of Versailles (1919)
   		2.  Great Depression (1930s)
   		3.  Adolf Hitler (1889-1945)
    			a) Mein Kampf (or “My Struggle”)
    			b) National Socialists (or Nazis)
    	C.  Japan
   		1.  Ultra-nationalism
   		2.  Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
 
 II.  Two Theaters
  	A.  Europe
   		1.  policy of appeasement (Munich, Sept. 1938)
    			-- Sudetenland, Czechoslovakia
   		2.  Germany invades Poland (Sept. 1, 1939) 
    			--> Britain & France declare war
   		3.  Nazi-Soviet nonaggression pact (Aug. 1939)
    			-- Germany attacks U.S.S.R. (July  1941)
   		4.  examples of fighting
    			a) blitzkrieg
    			b) Battle of Britain (1940)
    			c) D-Day (June 6, 1944)
   		5.  ended:  May 7,1945
		B. Pacific
   		1. Rape of Nanking (1937)
   		2. Japan occupied French Indochina (July 1941)
   			a) economic embargo & assets frozen
   			b) U.S. “ultimatum”
   		3. Pearl Harbor attack (Dec. 7, 1941) 
   			--> U.S. declares war 
   		4. examples of fighting
   			a) kamikaze
   			b) Battle of Midway (June 1942)
   			c) Battle of Iwo Jima (1945)
   		5. ended: August 15, 1945 
   
III. Horrors of War
   	A. Holocaust
   		1. racism & anti-Semitism --> genocide
   		2. extermination camps (i.e. Auschwitz, Treblinka)
   		3. ~ 6 million Jews killed 
   	B. Atomic Bomb
   		1. Why?
   			a) Harry Truman’s reason
   			b) Russian argument
   			c) racism
   		2. Where & When? 
   			a) Hiroshima (August 6, 1945) ~ 75,000 killed 
   			b) Nagasaki (August 9, 1945) ~ 65,000 killed
   
   
   
Think/Write
After completing the Reilly reading (pp. 392-409), do you think society can 
train individuals to perform evil deeds? Conversely, are heroes made from collective    
action or individual behavior?
   
   
   
   

Do you think the attack at Pearl Harbor and the dropping of atomic bombs at Hiroshima 
and Nagasaki had similar motivations?