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World War II • Fast Facts from the Pages of US History and the Internet • Chapters 24, 25 Adolf Hitler Stuka Dive Bomber Germany “Phony War” • Phase of World War II • Poland conquered • France waits • Blitzkrieg • France falls Panzer Germany Charles DeGaulle Free French Operation Sealion Operation Barbarossa • June 22. Operation BARBAROSSA begins. Over 3 million German soldiers and 3300 tanks cross the Russian border. The Wehrmarcht (German Army) is organized into three Army Groups . Facing them is the world's largest army comprised of 230 divisions of 14,000 men each, with 20,000 tanks (many obsolete.) The Russian Army is organized into four Military Districts. American First Party • • Charles Lindbergh speaking at an American First Rally (Picture supplied by Joseph Morabito) Pearl Harbor How many ships? US Naval leaders Chester Nimitz/ “Bull”W. Halsey USS Nimitz Desert Fox Erwin Rommel Operation Torch North Africa Operation Overlord D-Day June 6th, 1944 D-Day Normandy 9000 died the first day Final Tribute Benito Mussolini ousted 1943 Killed 1945 US Planes P-51/P-47 Thunderbolt War-time summits Haile Selassie Ethopia D-Day • On June 6, 1944 two thousand seven hundred ships showed up off the coast of France O.K. We'll go. Within hours an armada of 3,000 landing craft, 2,500 other ships, and 500 naval vessels--escorts and bombardment ships 13,000 aircraft that would support D-Day. Tuskegee Airmen Lone Eagles George C. Marshall Kamikaze “Divine Wind” USS Essex George S. Patton Omar N. Bradley • Know by his troops in World War II as "The Soldier's General" because of his care of and compassion for those soldiers under his command Bradley fighting vehicle General Dwight D.Eisenhower Supreme Allied commander Ernie Pyle General Douglas MacArthur Iwo Jima Joe Rosenthal Photographer “Island Hopping” “Battle of the Bulge” The Sullivan Brothers Navajo code-talkers Home-front “Rosie the Riveter” Flags flown for those in the Military Gold Star Mothers Nuremberg Trials Nazis on trial Manhattan project-U.S. government research project (1942–45) that produced the first atomic bombs. Hiroshima Nagasaki Surrender War Ends NORMANDY AMERICAN CEMETERY AND MEMORIAL
