Unit 12 padlet by https://padlet.com/ymanicollins2198/h7giog4e3pl4 Made by Ymani Collins-Guyton en-us 2017-04-19 20:21:45 UTC 2017-04-19 20:58:19 UTC hello@padlet.com What were the causes of WorldWar II? ymanicollins2198 https://padlet.com/ymanicollins2198/h7giog4e3pl4/wish/167132482  Economic and political causes of World War II • 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 ]]> 2017-04-19 20:24:34 UTC https://padlet.com/ymanicollins2198/h7giog4e3pl4/wish/167132482 What were the major events ofWorld War II? ymanicollins2198 https://padlet.com/ymanicollins2198/h7giog4e3pl4/wish/167132602  Major events of the war (1939–1945) • 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 ]]> 2017-04-19 20:25:31 UTC https://padlet.com/ymanicollins2198/h7giog4e3pl4/wish/167132602 Who were the major leaders ofWorld War II? ymanicollins2198 https://padlet.com/ymanicollins2198/h7giog4e3pl4/wish/167132850  Major leaders of the war • 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 ]]> 2017-04-19 20:27:11 UTC https://padlet.com/ymanicollins2198/h7giog4e3pl4/wish/167132850 Why did the Holocaust occur? ymanicollins2198 https://padlet.com/ymanicollins2198/h7giog4e3pl4/wish/167133062  Elements leading to the Holocaust • 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 ]]> 2017-04-19 20:28:34 UTC https://padlet.com/ymanicollins2198/h7giog4e3pl4/wish/167133062 What are other examples of genocide inthe twentieth century? ymanicollins2198 https://padlet.com/ymanicollins2198/h7giog4e3pl4/wish/167133174  Other examples of genocide • 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 ]]> 2017-04-19 20:29:27 UTC https://padlet.com/ymanicollins2198/h7giog4e3pl4/wish/167133174 Vocabulary ymanicollins2198 https://padlet.com/ymanicollins2198/h7giog4e3pl4/wish/167135513 Neville Chamberlain - British Prime Minister who gave into Hitlers demands (Appeasement)

Nazi-Soviet Pact- alliance created between Hitler and Germany

Blitzkreig - lightning war (German)

Panzer units - german tanks and armored trucks on ground

D Day - June 6 1944 ; largest amphibious landing.]]> 2017-04-19 20:45:02 UTC https://padlet.com/ymanicollins2198/h7giog4e3pl4/wish/167135513 ymanicollins2198 https://padlet.com/ymanicollins2198/h7giog4e3pl4/wish/167136571 2017-04-19 20:53:05 UTC https://padlet.com/ymanicollins2198/h7giog4e3pl4/wish/167136571 ymanicollins2198 https://padlet.com/ymanicollins2198/h7giog4e3pl4/wish/167137132 2017-04-19 20:57:10 UTC https://padlet.com/ymanicollins2198/h7giog4e3pl4/wish/167137132 ymanicollins2198 https://padlet.com/ymanicollins2198/h7giog4e3pl4/wish/167137260 2017-04-19 20:58:10 UTC https://padlet.com/ymanicollins2198/h7giog4e3pl4/wish/167137260