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World War II
(1941-1945)
Players
Axis Expansion: Japan, Germany,
Italy
Axis Powers 1942
• 1933 Hitler elected Chancellor of
Germany
• 1939 Germany invades Poland; Italy
invades Albania
• 1939 Britain, France, Australia, New
Zealand declare war on Germany
• 1940 Italy joins Germany
• 1941 US & Britain declare war on
Japan
Germany declares war on US
• 1942 Air Attack on Germany
• 1943-44 Allied push into North Africa &
Sicily
• Sept 1943 Italy surrenders
• June 1944 D-Day at Normandy
• May 1945 VE German surrenders
• Aug 1945 A-Bombs dropped on Japan
• Sept 1945 VJ Japan surrenders
Japanese Holdings
Allied
Pacific
Plan
Guadalcanal
Burials in Pacific
Marine
Equipment
Peleliu
Peleliu
Marine Artists
Peleliu Night
The Stare
Marine 1st
Division
Patch
Humor in the Military
Bill Mauldin
Stars & Stripes
“I already got a Purple Heart.
Just give me some aspirin!”
WWII Toll
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•
•
Total Deaths
% Prewar Pop
US
500,000
.4
France
810,000
1.9
Germany 6,805,000
9.5
Russia 20,000,000
10.4%
Overall dead: 52,199,262
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