Unit 12 by Nalani Lee https://padlet.com/nalani1025/cr4w14aiashw WW2 en-us 2018-04-26 01:59:12 UTC 2018-04-26 02:23:47 UTC hello@padlet.com Economic and political causes of World War II nalani1025 https://padlet.com/nalani1025/cr4w14aiashw/wish/255485331 • Aggression by the totalitarian powers of Germany,
Italy, Japan
• Nationalism
• Failures of the Treaty of Versailles
• Weakness of the League of Nations
• Appeasement
• Tendencies towards isolationism and pacifism in
Europe and the United States ]]> 2018-04-26 02:05:20 UTC https://padlet.com/nalani1025/cr4w14aiashw/wish/255485331 Major events of the war (1939–1945) nalani1025 https://padlet.com/nalani1025/cr4w14aiashw/wish/255485488 • German invasion of Poland
• Fall of France
• Battle of Britain
• German invasion of the Soviet Union
• Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
• D-Day (Allied invasion of Europe)
• Atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki ]]> 2018-04-26 02:06:45 UTC https://padlet.com/nalani1025/cr4w14aiashw/wish/255485488 Major leaders of the war nalani1025 https://padlet.com/nalani1025/cr4w14aiashw/wish/255485595 • Franklin D. Roosevelt: U.S. president
• Harry Truman: U.S. president after death of
President Roosevelt
• Dwight D. Eisenhower: Allied commander in Europe
• Douglas MacArthur: U.S. general
• George C. Marshall: U.S. general
• Winston Churchill: British prime minister
• Joseph Stalin: Soviet dictator
• Adolf Hitler: Nazi dictator of Germany
• Hideki Tojo: Japanese general
• Hirohito: Emperor of Japan ]]> 2018-04-26 02:07:25 UTC https://padlet.com/nalani1025/cr4w14aiashw/wish/255485595 Elements leading to the Holocaust nalani1025 https://padlet.com/nalani1025/cr4w14aiashw/wish/255485837 • Totalitarianism combined with
nationalism
• History of anti-Semitism
• Defeat in World War I and economic
depression blamed on German Jews
• Hitler’s belief in the master race
• Final solution: Extermination camps,
gas chambers]]> 2018-04-26 02:09:06 UTC https://padlet.com/nalani1025/cr4w14aiashw/wish/255485837 Other examples of genocide nalani1025 https://padlet.com/nalani1025/cr4w14aiashw/wish/255486142 • Armenians by leaders of the
Ottoman Empire
• Peasants, government and military
leaders, and members of the elite in
the Soviet Union by Joseph Stalin
• Artists, technicians, former
government officials, monks,
minorities, and other educated
individuals by Pol Pot in Cambodia
• Tutsi minority by Hutu in Rwanda ]]> 2018-04-26 02:11:21 UTC https://padlet.com/nalani1025/cr4w14aiashw/wish/255486142 D-Day nalani1025 https://padlet.com/nalani1025/cr4w14aiashw/wish/255486807 (Day of Days) June 6, 1944; Allied forces landed in Normandy, France to begin a massive offensive against the Germans in the occupied territory of Europe.]]> 2018-04-26 02:15:20 UTC https://padlet.com/nalani1025/cr4w14aiashw/wish/255486807 Island Hopping nalani1025 https://padlet.com/nalani1025/cr4w14aiashw/wish/255487041 the American navy attacked islands held by the Japanese in the Pacific Ocean. The capture of each successive island from the Japanese brought the American navy closer to an invasion of Japan.]]> 2018-04-26 02:16:38 UTC https://padlet.com/nalani1025/cr4w14aiashw/wish/255487041 Cash and Carry nalani1025 https://padlet.com/nalani1025/cr4w14aiashw/wish/255487273 1939; Britain and France could buy goods from the United States if they paid in full and transported them.

]]> 2018-04-26 02:17:55 UTC https://padlet.com/nalani1025/cr4w14aiashw/wish/255487273 Holocaust nalani1025 https://padlet.com/nalani1025/cr4w14aiashw/wish/255487505 the systematic extermination of millions of European Jews, as well as Roma, Slavs, intellectuals, homosexuals, and political dissidents, by the Nazis and their allies during World War II.]]> 2018-04-26 02:19:12 UTC https://padlet.com/nalani1025/cr4w14aiashw/wish/255487505 Dwight D. Eisenhower nalani1025 https://padlet.com/nalani1025/cr4w14aiashw/wish/255487768 American General who began in North Africa and became the Commander of Allied forces in Europe.]]> 2018-04-26 02:20:02 UTC https://padlet.com/nalani1025/cr4w14aiashw/wish/255487768