How WWII Was Fought

total war yet again

• required mobilization of both military adn civilian populations adn could both be easily targeted

• hitler’s invasion of poland really sparked the war

• he conquered and annexed territory all over and britain adn france just let it ahppen with appeasement

• alliaince sytem

  • axis powers of germany, italy, and japan (all fascists)

    • soviets briefly with nonaggression pact but later rejected

  • allied powers were france and britain at the start, then ussr and usa later

• japanese bombing of pearl harbor brought usa into war

strategies used

• many continuities with wwi in how govts prepared, changes were in scope and lethalness

• propaganda!!

  • used to provoke natoinalism and dmeonize enemies

  • sowed fear to assemble armies and workers

• wwii ideologies

  • fascism

    • glorifying state, militarism

    • germany, japan, italy

    • organized to serve interests of state not people

  • communism

    • ussr stalin

    • soviet economy

    • rapid industrialization thorugh five year plan

      • led to great suffering

    • collectivization and industrialization

    • brutal demands

  • democracy

    • usa britain and france

    • winston churchill was britian’s PM, far more intense than neville chamberlain’s appeasement

    • to mobilize, persuasion had ot be used

    • propaganda used immensely

• repression of basic freedoms

  • usa saw japanese internment post-pearl harbor

  • germany had nuremberg laws forcing jews into ghettos and concentration camps

new strategies and tech

• blitzkrieg eliminated enemies super fast

• trench warfare was no more

• firebombing

  • small clusters that fell on urban areas and started fires, causing damage like this

  • dresden and tokyo suffered the most

• atomic bomb

  • oppenheimer in usa

  • could destory cities

  • dropped on hiroshima and nagasaki forcing japan to surrender