The Great Patriotic War

WWII - "Moscow Strikes Back" (1942) [Full Documentary] *Edward G Robinson narrates…

THE GERMAN INVASION OF RUSSIA: WORLD WAR II - Military/War/History (documentary)

Lead up to WWII: c. 1939-1945

1880s 1900s 1914-1918 1920s 1930s1919

WWI & Treaty of Versailles

*1917: Russian Rev (x2)

Industrialization & Ne-Colonialism

M: militarismA: alliances

N: nationalismI: imperialism & IR

A: Assassination

Roaring 20s in USA

Rebuilding in EuropeColonial Oppression in: Asia, Latin America & Africa

Depression in Germany

Civil War in USSR

Great Depression

& Rise of

Dictators

WWII: c. 1939-1945

Key Developments:• Rise of Dictators:

– Hitler– Mussolini– Franco– Stalin

• Violations of Versailles:– Mussolini: Abyssinia– Hitler: Austria & Sudetenland

(Czech.)– Japan: Manchuria & Greater East

Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere

• Appeasement (Chamberlain)

Turning Points:• Nazi-Soviet Pact

– Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact– Aug. 1939

• Nazi Invasion of Poland– Sept. 1939

• Operation Barbarossa – Nazi invasion of USSR– June 1941

• Pearl Harbor– Decd. 7, 1941

• Stalingrad & Leningrad– 1942-1943 / 1941-1944

• D-Day– June 6, 1944

• A-bomb– Aug. 1945

Problem: Grocery

Store Tantrum

Appeasement

Temporarily solves

problem

New (worse?) problem

Sugar hyper kid

Wonder how long the honeymoon will last?

Total War

On each and every attack our valorous Red Army will answer with three times more powerful blows!

Cut the enemy! (1939) I swear to defeat the enemy.

Let's crush the enemy under avalanche of steel Glory to the heroes of the Patriotic War!

Glory to the Stalin's falcons!

Death to the Fascism Soldiers of all nationalities, fight for

Motherland and victory!

Fight German animals! We can and must destroy Hitler's army. The face of Hitlerism

Red Army's broom will sweep the enemy out! http://www.allworldwars.com/Russian%20WWII%20Propaganda%20Posters.html

North African Campaign: June 1940 to May 1943

April 1945…USSR & US troops In Berlin…

April 30th Suicide

May 8th 1945…VE DAY

Reichstag After Fall of Berlin

Pacific Theater

Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere

• Contrast to European Totalitarianism

• Japan’s “New Order”– Announced in 1940

• Late 19th century idea– Ultranationalist leanings

• Occupied Countries = – Puppet regimes– Subject to “Japanization”– Suffering & Death

http://wgordon.web.wesleyan.edu/papers/coprospr.htm

The Atomic Bomb

• August 6, 1945• Hiroshima

• August 9, 1945• Nagasaki

• August 15, 1945• Unconditional

Surrender

62,000 buildingsdestroyed

70,000 peoplekilled instantly

140,000 by end of year

Ground temps of 7000 F

Winds of 980 mph

Was it necessary?

Killed as many as 140,000 people in Hiroshima and 80,000 in Nagasaki

15-20% died from radiation poisoningStill others died from cancer

VJ Day

WWII Conferences• Atlantic Conference (1941)

– FDR & Churchill off coast of Newfoundland– Atlantic Charter = foundations for UN

• Washington DC (1941-42)– FDR & Churchill– Aid to Europe

• Moscow (1942)– Churchill & Stalin– Potential of 2nd European front

• Casablanca Conference (1943) – FDR & Churchill in Morocco– Axis have to unconditionally surrender

• Washington DC (1943)– FDR & Churchill– Europe vs. Italy

• Quebec (1943)– FDR & Churchill– Global strategy & D-Day plans

• Cairo Conference (1943) – FDR, Churchill & Chiang Kai-shek in Egypt– Fate of Korea & Taiwan

• Teheran Conference (1943) – Big Three: FDR, Churchill & Stalin in Iran– 2nd front in Europe– USSR vs. Japan (after German defeat)

• Quebec (1944)– FDR & Churchill– Lend-Lease– German occupation

• Moscow (1944)– Churchill & Stalin– USSR in Pacific– Poland?

• Malta (1945)– FDR & Churchill– Strategy in Europe & Far East

• Yalta Conference (1945) – Big Three in the Crimea– War against Japan– Post-war Germany decisions (including war crimes trials)– UN decisions– Poland?

• Potsdam (1945) – Truman, Attlee & Stalin in Germany– Administration of Japan– Redraw the lines of Europe

The Cold War

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