WWII pt 3

The United States' successful nuclear test caused the German public to call for military expansion.

Many Germans resented the harsh conditions imposed on Germany after World War I.

The German economy relied on selling raw goods and Germany was running out of resources.

British and French colonial expansion in Africa threatened Germany's status as a major power.

Hitler seizing power in Germany.

Hitler's troops invading Poland

Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor

Japan and Germany signing an alliance

Germany

Italy

Great Britain

Soviet Union

Japan needed access to oil and natural gas for its military and the ships stationed at Pearl Harbor defended Hawaii's rich oil fields.

Japan wanted to expand its territory in the Pacific and needed to weaken the US Navy to slow the nation's response to its actions.

Japan planned to invade North America and sought to destroy the aircraft carriers and submarines that were defending the Pacific Coast.

Japan believed that the United States was building up its navy to invade Japan and attacked before the US could do so.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Herbert Hoover

Harry S. Truman

Lyndon B. Johnson

Austria

Poland

Czechoslovakia

Belgium

A strategy the U.S. used to defeat Japan.

Giving something to someone to make them stop.

The attack of Pearl Harbor.

the refusal of Japanese leaders to surrender

the discovery of Nazi concentration camps

the success of the German nuclear program

the threat of a communist revolution in Japan

D-Day

UN Day

VE Day

VJ Day

Joseph Stalin

Winston Churchill

Harry Truman

Franklin Roosevelt

Japanese troops captured thousands of Allied troops in the Pacific.

Allied bombers destroyed most of Japan's naval fleet.

Allied troops captured an island in Japan.

Allied bombers sank most of the Allied ships in the Pacific.