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World War II (1939-1945)

I. Consequences

A. Geopolitical

1. 60 million dead

2. New weapons

3. Ends Fascist threat

4. Holocaust

5. Democratic Germany-Japan

6. Cold War

7. Collective Security (UN-NATO)

8. Decolonization

9. European Unification

B. Domestic

1. Ends Depression

2. G.I. Bill

3. Government-Science

4. Income Tax

5. Japanese Internment

II. The Gathering Storm (1930s)

A. German Ambitions

B. Japanese Ambitions

1. Pearl Harbor

C. US Isolationism

III. European War

A. 3 Factors

1. Soviet Manpower-Economic Revival

2. American Economy

3. Air Supremacy

B. Chronology

IV. Pacific War

A. Midway

B. "War Without Mercy"

C. Firebombing

D. A-Bomb