Download World War II

Mr. Wells – Winkler MS
Review: Non Aggression Pact
Review: Germany Invades Poland
Review: “Phony War”
German Troops Disembarking
Norway – April 9, 1940
Rescue at Dunkirk
The Fall of France
The Battle of Britain
• Summer-Fall 1940
• Britain vs. Germany
• German blitzkrieglightning war
• Churchill vows to
never surrender
• Radar becomes
important
• Significance: Hitler
calls off invasion
Hitler Invades Soviet Union
The Battles of the Atlantic
• 1939-1943
• Atlantic Ocean off the
British coast
• Germans sank 87 US
supply ships
• Tonnage War: British
required more than a
million tons of food &
material per week to
survive.
• Significance: British use
sonar to defeat Germans
The Atlantic Charter (Aug. 1941)
Pearl Harbor
U.S. Enters WWII
The European Theatre
• European theatre was
the name given to
fighting that took place
in Europe
• FDR & Churchill agreed
that their top priority
was to defeat the
Nazis in Europe first
• Great Britain stood
alone against Axis in
1942
• Hitler was everywhere!
European Theatre of Operations
Battle of Stalingrad
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Aug. 1942-1943
Bloodiest standoff of the war
Over 1 million casualties
Allies decided to let Russia fight on their own
Soviets defeat Nazis – Turning point of the war!
THIS DECISION WILL COST THE U.S.
FUTURE RELATIONS WITH THE SOVIETS
Battle of Stalingrad:
Winter of 1942-1943
German Army
Russian Army
1,011,500 men
1,000,500 men
10,290 artillery guns
13,541 artillery guns
675 tanks
894 tanks
1,216 planes
1,115 planes
Operation Torch: North Africa (1942)
• FDR & Churchill meet in Morocco (North
Africa)
• Decide to invade through Sicily then into
Italy
• General Dwight D. Eisenhower – Supreme
Allied Commander
• Germans retreated into Tunisia…
surrender over 275,000
• Allies push into Italy
• Mussolini forced to resign August 1943
• Italy surrenders June 4, 1944
• April 1945 – Mussolini is executed in
Milan, Italy
The Battle for Sicily:
June, 1943
General
George S. Patton
The Allies Liberate Rome:
June 5, 1944
Mussolini &
His Mistress,
Claretta
Petacci
Are Hung in
Milan, 1945
D-Day: Operation Neptune/Overlord
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June 6, 1944
Normandy, France
Britain/U.S. vs. Germany
Largest amphibious invasion
of all-time
- 130,000 troops
- 195,700 naval personnel
- 5 Sections: Utah,
Omaha, Gold, Juno, Sword
• Significance: Liberation of
France from German
occupation
D-Day: Operation Neptune/Overlord
D-Day: Operation Neptune/Overlord
Higgins Landing Crafts
German Prisoners
The Liberation of Paris:
August 25, 1944
De Gaulle in
Triumph!
U. S. Troops in Paris, 1944
The Battle of the Bulge
• December 1944
• French-German border
• Officially named Battle of
Ardennes by U.S. Army
• “Bulge” was initial incursion
of Germans into Allies’ line
of advance
• Germans could not sustain
attack and began to
retreat
• 19,000 Americans dead –
41,493 wounded – 23,554
captured or missing
• Significance – Death Camps
liberated & Nazis defeated
VE Day
• May 7-8, 1945
• Germany officially surrendered
• Hitler committed suicide in April
before he could be captured
• Now, the Allies have to figure out
how to defeat Japan
Hitler Commits Suicide
April 30, 1945
Cyanide & Pistols
The Führer’s Bunker
Mr. & Mrs. Hitler
Hitler’s “Secret Weapons”:
Too Little, Too Late!
V-1 Rocket:
“Buzz Bomb”
V-2 Rocket
Werner von Braun