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World War Two
Start of the War
On September 1st 1939
Germany invaded
Poland starting the war
Germany was able to
conquer Poland in
weeks using a massive
attack of men, tanks
and planes known as
“Blitzkrieg” or
“Lightning War”
WWII
Allies
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France
Great Britain
Axis Powers
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Later
The Soviet Union
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The United States
(1941)
China
Germany
Japan
Italy
WWII-German Victories
In April 1940 Germany
invades Norway,
Denmark, the
Netherlands, and
Belgium
In May 1940 Germany
invades France and by
June 1940 Germany
controls France
WWII-German Victories
During the beginning
of the war Germany
and the Axis Powers
won several quick
victories
However by 1941 there
were main turning
points
German Invasion of the Soviet Union
In June 1941 Germany invades the Soviet
Union
During the summer and fall months the
Germans move deep into Russia
However winter comes early and stops the
Germans just outside Moscow
German soldiers are ill-equipped for the
Russian winters
Stalingrad
In 1942 the Germans turn
south to try to take the key
city of Stalingrad
The Soviet Army puts up
good defenses and the
Russian winter causes the
Germans to stop
In 1943 the Germans
surrender
Soon after the Soviet Army
is able to drive the
Germans out of Russia
Pearl Harbor
In the beginning of WWII
the U.S. remain neutral
The U.S. agreed that Great
Britain had to be supported
against the Nazi’s and the
U.S. did supply weapons to
the allies-this was known as
the Lend-Lease Act
Pearl Harbor
To stop Japanese
aggression the U.S.
banned the sale of
goods to Japan-(oil and
steel)
Japan became enraged
and launched a surprise
a military attack on the
naval base at Pearl
Harbor
Pearl Harbor
On Sunday December 7th 1941 the Japanese
attacked Pearl Harbor
2,400 people were killed
Many of the American naval ships were destroyed
Franklin D. Roosevelt asked Congress to declare war
on Japan –Roosevelt called the attack a Day that will
live in Infamy
The U.S. entered on the side of the Allies
El Alamein 1942
In 1941, 1942 the
Germans took over
North Africa
Britain was able to stop
the German advance at
El Alamein
By 1943 the British
with the help of the
U.S. drove the
Germans out of Africa
Invasion of Italy 1943
After driving the Germans
out of Africa the Allies
moved into Italy
The Italy Army gave up
and Hitler was forced to
send troops to fight in
Italy-weakening his forces
in Europe
Mussolini was forced to
flee the country
D-day 1944
On June 6, 1944 Allies invaded
France at a place called
Normandy
This opened a second front and
Germany was forced to fight a
three front war
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Great Britain and U.S. in France
Great Britain and U.S. in Italy
The Soviet Union in Poland and
the east
The Allies were able to move
into Paris by August and into
Germany by the winter of 1944
Battle of the Bulge
This was Hitler’s last attempt to
drive the Allied forces away from
the German boarders
The Germans sent a large
amount of men and tanks into
battle
The Germans did make some
advances however the Allies
were able to stop the
advancement on the ground
while superior air power from
the allies finished off the
German advance
Victory in Europe VE Day
By May 7th 1945 Hitler had committed
suicide
The German or people did not wish to carry
on the war and so sued for peace
The war in Europe was now over
The War in the Pacific
After the bombing of Pearl Harbor
the Japanese were able to take
control of most of the Pacific
However by 1942 the U.S. had
rebuilt its navy
War in the Pacific
The Allies/U.S. used a method
to take back the pacific Islands
called island hopping
In 1942 the U.S. caught the
Japanese fleets off guard in the
Pacific
U.S. planes were able to destroy
two Japanese fleets-including
aircraft carries
This badly hurt the Japanese
who never recovered from the
loses
This was known as the Battle of
Midway
War in the Pacific
By 1944 the Allies/U.S. had moved close
enough to Japan to start bombing the
Japanese cities
However by 1945 Japan refused to surrender
It looked as if the U.S. might have to invade
Japan-This would have cost a large loss of life
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
From 1942 to 1945 the U.S.
had been working on
creating an atomic bomb
under the Manhattan
Project
The U.S. warned the
Japanese in the first week
of August that the U.S. had
the bomb and if Japan did
not surrender the U.S.
would use the weapon
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Japan refused to surrender
On August 6, 1945 the U.S.
dropped the bomb on
Hiroshima
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The bomb destroyed 4
square miles and killed
70,000 people
By August 9th the Japanese
still refused to surrender
and the U.S. dropped a
second bomb on Nagasaki
killing 40,000 people
Japan
On August 10th 1945 Emperor Hirohito
forced his government to surrender
The war in the Pacific was over
Total War
WWII was a total war meaning that both
Allies and Axis Powers targeted civilians
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The bombing of London by German in 1940
was known as the Blitz
Cities were bombed by both sides
Products/factories produced goods were
military goods not consumer goods
War Crimes
In 1937 Japan invades Nanjing (China) and
mass shooting of Chinese civilians causes
250,000 to die
The Germans were brutal to Russian soldier
the chances of survival were 1 in 10
Human Loss
WWII killed about 75
million people
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In Europe 38 million died
The Soviet Union suffered
the most losses with 22
million killed
The brutality of the war
was something the world
had never seen
Economic Losses
Most of Europe had
been destroyed
Vital farmland was
destroyed
There was starvation
and a large loss of
property
It would take Europe
years to recover
The United Nations
WWII resulted in a new
international group that would
attempt to keep peace in the
world
The United Nations would take
the place of the League of
Nations which had failed
The United Nations was to give
countries a place to discuss
world problems before they
turned into wars
One advantage the UN had was
that it did have an army made up
of member nations to stop wars