Rise of Nationalism

Rise of World War II

1939-1945

By: Kelsey Behrens, Lanelle

Thornhill,
and Becky Taylor
Causes of WWII
Causes of WWII
Causes of WWII
Causes of WWII
Causes of WWII
 Uses of Propaganda

Axis Powers
• The Nazi Perspective

“Demilitarized Germany”. The

shaded areas are regions
demilitarized under the Treaty of
Versailles.
 The text below the title reads:
"Citizens! Do not believe that the
Germany of misfortune and misery, the
nation of corruption and usury, the
land of Jewish corruption, can be saved
by parties that claim to stand on a
foundation of facts. Never!"

“Military expenditures by the Great

Powers”. The chart to the left is per
capita military expenditures. The chart to
the right is military expenditures as a
percentage of the overall budget. The
chart suggests that Germany is being
outspent by surrounding countries.
The caption reads: "Two million dead.
Did they die in vain? Never! Front
soldiers! Adolf Hitler is showing you
the way!" The claim is that Hitler will
redeem Germany from the loss of
World War I.
• Japan’s view of the region before and what
they thought would be afterward.
• From a Japanese propaganda booklet from
World War II detailing the Imperial Army's
plan for dominating the nations of the
region
America
 Allied Powers
• The first major film about
America’s defeat in the
Pacific, Wake Island, was
portrayed as a victory because
the heroics of Wake's
defenders delayed the
Japanese while America
recovered from the Pearl
Harbor attack.
Allied/Axis Military
Strategies
Axis Power Strategies
Map of Movement of Allied and Axis Powers in
World War II
Allied Strategies
Strategic Bombing
High Tech Warfare vs.
Guerilla Warfare
High Tech Warfare
Destroying Enemies Weapons
Guerilla Warfare
Comparison of High Tech and
Guerilla Warfare

Guerilla Warfare

High Tech Warfare

 Women on the Home front

• America needed it's women to go

to work to build the planes,
tanks, and ships needed to fight
Hitler. World War II, more so than
any other war, was a war based
on production.

Rosie the Riveter

Men and Women working side by side building bomber planes
in factories.
 Working Women

Women working as welders in a plant that Women accounted for one-third of Air Force pilots
produced B-25 and P-51 fighter planes. during WWII.
 Women outside America

Thousands of Russian women

volunteered as fighter pilots.
The ATS portrayed as
glamorous to British women
Allied and Axis
Atrocities
 Malmedy Massacre

• They made memorial wall that list 84

names off the ones who died at the
Malmedy Massacre.
• They were all executed by the
German army.
The Dachau Massacre
The Holocaust and Genocide
Biscari Massacre
The League of Nations
The Formation of the UN
Peace: the Role of the UN
Effects of WWII
Effects of WWII
Effects of WWII
Effects of WWII
Effects of WWII
Counterpoint
 Bibliography
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