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

BELGIUM

BRAZIL

BULGARIA

CANADA

CHINA

CZECHSLOVAKIA

DENMARK

ESTONIA

HUNGARY

GERMANY

GREECE

HUNGARY

INDIA

ITALY

JAPAN

LATVIA

LITHUANIA

MALTA

THE NETHERLANDS

NEW ZEALAND

NORWAY

POLAND

ROMANIA

SLOVAKIA

SOUTH AFRICA

UNITED KINGDOM

UNITED STATES

USSR

YUGOASLAVIA

• GERMANY

• ITALY

• JAPAN

• SLOVAKIA

• HUNGARY

• ROMANIA

•BULAGARIA

• Australia • Belgium • Brazil • Canada • China • Czechoslovakia • Denmark • Estonia • France • Greece • India • Latvia

•Lithuania •Malta •The Netherlands •New Zealand •Norway •Poland •South Africa •United Kingdom •United States •USSR •Yugoslavia

THE AXIS POWERS

THE ALLIES

• 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 PlateBattle of BritainThe Battle of GazalaThe Battle of El AlameinThe Battle of MoscowThe Battle of StalingradThe fall of SingaporeThe Battle of KurskThe Battle of BrittanyThe Battle of ArnhemThe Battle of the BulgeThe Battle of BerlinThe Battle of Coral SeaThe Battle of MidwayThe Battle of GuadalcanalThe Battle of the Philippine SeaThe Battle of Iwo JimaThe Battle of Okinawa

• Rifles

• Submachine guns

• Machine guns

• Grenades

• Mortars

• Sniper Rifles

• Combat Knives

• Torpedoes

• Tanks

• Armored cars and tanks

• Aircraft

• Aircraft Carriers

• Submarines

WEAPONS VEHICLES

• 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