Download Major Events of World War II

Major Events of World War II
Germany Invades Poland
September 1, 1939
• Blitzkreig?
• Soviet Union?
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B63DPFx
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Germany invades France
1940
• Captures the city of Paris
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErXdRuH
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Battle of Britain
1940
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Royal Airforce?
Winston Churchill?
German Luftwaffe?
Germany’s first Failure
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QArc2c_umzc
Germany invades Soviet Union 1941
• Big Mistake!!!
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhlDMYA
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Japan Attacks Pearl Harbor
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yb3ZiWF
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• "I fear all we have done is to awaken a
sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible
resolve."[1]
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sv1niwx
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Germany Attacks Stalingrad 1942
• TURNING POINT OF WAR IN EUROPE!!!!!
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2 Million causalities
Axis lose ¼ of their total manpower
http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/world-war-iihistory/videos/world-war-ii-battle-of-stalingrad
Axis Powers in North Africa Surrender
1943
• Needed to be done before the invasion of Italy
• http://www.history.com/topics/world-warii/world-war-ii-history/videos/north-africacampaign
1943 Mussolini arrested
• In July, Allies invade Italy…Hitler sends troops
to defend…it takes Allies about a year to
capture Rome
June 6, 1944 D-DAY “The Tide has
turned! The free men of the world
are marching together to Victory.”
• Led by Dwight D. Eisenhower
• Largest water to land ivasion in history
• Stormed the beaches of Normand to LIBERATE WESTERN
EUROPE
• http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/dday/videos/d-days
• http://www.history.com/topics/us-presidents/dwight-deisenhower
• http://www.history.com/topics/us-presidents/dwight-deisenhower/videos/d-day-battle-gear
May 8, 1945 V-E Day
• One, by one, the countries conquered by
Germany were freed as Allied soldiers forced
the German out. By the time they got to
Berlin, Hitler had committed suicide.
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuhnGbk
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• http://www.history.com/topics/world-warii/adolf-hitler/videos/adolf-hitler
Battle of the Coral Sea 1942
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http://www.ahctv.com/tv-shows/world-war-ii-in-color/videos/world-war-ii-in-color-battle-of-the-coral-sea/
• First battle where ships could not see each
other…whole battle fought by planes
• Neither side won but we stopped Japan from
invading Australia
Battle of Midway 1942
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TURNING POINT OF WAR IN PACIFIC
We were protecting a US airbase and were able to sink four Japanese aircraft
carriers.
This put Japan on the defensive and marked the end of Japanese control in the
pacific!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4pUD9qWKs8
Phillippines “I shall return!” General
MacArthur
• The island hopper
• http://www.history.com/topics/douglasmacarthur
Manhattan Project
• Top secret mission to develop the Atomic
Bomb
• Einstein and Oppenheimer
• http://www.history.com/topics/world-warii/bombing-of-hiroshima-andnagasaki/videos/atomic-bomb
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NF4LQa
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