1939-1945

World War II

Early Nazi Conquests

Animated Map of European Theater

Pearl Harbor

The Atlantic Charter

No territorial gains for US or Great BritainAll territorial transfers had to take into

account rights of self determinationGeneral reduction of tariffsGlobal attempt at economic and social

progressWork towards a world free from fear and

wantFreedom of the seasDisarming of aggressor nations and a general

draw down of military spending

German casualties: 841,000 dead, missing or wounded

Soviet casualties: 1,129,619 dead, missing or wounded, including civilians

The Battle of Stalingrad

The War in the Mediterranean

Normandy Invasion

Normandy Invasion

Hedgerow lanes

Normandy Campaign

Operation Market Garden

The Battle of the Bulge

The Holocaust

5.9M Jews2-3M Soviet POWs1.8-2M Poles220K-1.5M Roma

(gypsies)200-250K disabled80K Freemasons20-25K Slovenes5-15K homosexuals2.5-5K Jehovah’s

Witnesses

The Early War in the Pacific

Coral Sea

Midway

Island Hopping

Iwo Jima and Okinawa

The Endgame against Japan

Estimates varied on American casualties. Between 400,000 to 1,200,000

The desire to bring Soviet help into the war led to concessions at Yalta

Japanese resistance on Okinawa had been very fierce and the assumption was that it would be fiercer in Japan

Bombing toll against Japan

Firebombing of Tokyo (3/45): 100,000 deadBy 6/45, 40% of the area of Japan’s six

largest cities (Tokyo, Nagoya, Kobe, Osaka, Yokohama and Kawasaki) had been leveled.

Hiroshima and Nagasaki were chosen because they hadn’t been extensively fire-bombed yet.

Hiroshima: 140,000 dead by the end of the year

Nagasaki: 80,000 dead by the end of the year