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By: Meghan Lindner World War 2 occurred between 1939-1945. •1939- World War 2 was started when Germany invaded Poland on September 3rd, 1939. Britain and France declared war against Germany and were at war with Germany within a week because of this attack. •1940- Rationing starts in the UK - British victory in Battle of Britain forces Hitler to postpone invasion plans •1941- Japan attacks Pearl Harbor, December 7th (aka D-Day) - Hitler begins invasion of Russia (Operation Barbarossa) - The Blitz continues against Britain’s major cities - Allies take Tobruk in North America and resist German attacks •1942- Germany suffers setbacks at Stalingrad and El Alamein - Singapore falls to Japanese in February, about 25,000 POWs taken captive - American naval victory at Battle of Midway was the turning point for the Pacific War - Mass murder of Jewish people at Auschwitz begins • 1943- Surrender at Stalingrad marks Germany’s first major defeat - Allied victory in North Africa enables invasion of Italy to be launched - Italy surrenders, but German takes over Battle - British and Indian fight Japanese in Burma • 1944- Allies land at Anzio and bomb monastery at Monte Cassino - Soviet offensive gathers pace in Eastern Europe - D-Day (allied invasion of Paris, France) is liberated in August - Guam liberated by the US Okinawa, and Iwo Jima bombed • 1945- Auschwitz liberated by Soviet troops - Russians reached Berlin; Hitler commits suicide and Germany surrenders on May 7th - Truman becomes President of the United States on Roosevelt’s death, and Attlee replaces Churchill - After atomic bombs are dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan surrenders on August 14th AUSTRALIA GERMANY NEW ZEALAND BELGIUM GREECE NORWAY BRAZIL HUNGARY POLAND BULGARIA INDIA ROMANIA CANADA ITALY SLOVAKIA CHINA JAPAN SOUTH AFRICA CZECHSLOVAKIA LATVIA UNITED KINGDOM DENMARK LITHUANIA UNITED STATES ESTONIA MALTA USSR HUNGARY THE NETHERLANDS YUGOASLAVIA THE ALLIES THE AXIS POWERS • GERMANY • ITALY • JAPAN • SLOVAKIA • HUNGARY • ROMANIA •BULAGARIA • • • • • • • • • • • • •Lithuania •Malta Australia •The Belgium Netherlands Brazil •New Zealand Canada •Norway China Czechoslovakia •Poland •South Africa Denmark •United Estonia Kingdom France •United States Greece •USSR India •Yugoslavia Latvia • FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT-USA • HARRY TRUMAN- USA • WINSTON CHURCHILL- GREAT BRITAIN • CHARLES DE GAULLE- FRANCE • JOSTEF STALIN- RUSSIA • ALDOF HITLER- GERMANY • BENITO MUSSOLINI- ITALY • EMPOROR HIROHITO- JAPAN • The Nazi Party was a group of German people who believed that German’s were perfect and that certain racial enemies were not worthy of living such as Jews, Gypsies, Mentally and physically disabled, and homosexuals. Jews were thought of as an alien threat to the so-called German community. This lead into the Holocaust which was when the government paid for the murder of over six million Jews . The Holocaust is a Greek word for “sacrifice by fire”. They were “sacrificed” to the God’s by being killed by being shot, put in gas chambers, by dyeing of starvation, or by diseases. Battle of the River Plate Battle of Britain The Battle of Gazala The Battle of El Alamein The Battle of Moscow The Battle of Stalingrad The fall of Singapore The Battle of Kursk The Battle of Brittany The Battle of Arnhem The Battle of the Bulge The Battle of Berlin The Battle of Coral Sea The Battle of Midway The Battle of Guadalcanal The Battle of the Philippine Sea The Battle of Iwo Jima The Battle of Okinawa WEAPONS VEHICLES • Rifles • Submachine guns • Tanks • Machine guns • Armored cars and tanks • Grenades • Aircraft • Mortars • Aircraft Carriers • Sniper Rifles • Submarines • Combat Knives • Torpedoes • Started to tax Americans for the payment of everything needed in the war • Women started working jobs men usually worked • Women went into Air Force and served as Air Force pilots • Many countries lost up to a tenth of their population • Ended up being the most expensive wars in history ($1$2 trillion dollars) • Property damage totaled up to $239 billion dollars • Germany was the only Axis Powers member that did not become a part of the United nations • Unambiguous victory for America • Unified a victory for freedom and democracy • Germany, Italy, and Japan were completely defeated and transformed into unthreatening democracies