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WWII 1939-1945

WWII 1939-1945 •  Allied Powers: Great Britain, United States, Soviet

Union, , France, Canada, Australia,

•  Axis Powers: Germany, Italy, Japan

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WWII 1939-1945 •  European Theatre

•  Stalin (Russia) & Hitler (Germany) sign a nonaggression pact. (agree to divide Poland between them)(also allows Germany to take Finland, Lithuania, Latvia & Estonia.) •  Hitler attacks Poland in September of 1939 (World watches

and tells Hitler to stop it)

•  Blitzkrieg = Lightening war…. Fast moving airplanes and tanks followed by massive infantry forces.

•  Russia then moves in to Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, but Finland resisted.(harsh winter slows Soviets)

•  April of 1940 Hitler attacks the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg….. From there Hitler hits France….. •  Dunkirk- 338,000 French troops are trapped and rescued

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•  Germany controls most of France by June 1940… French resistance….

•  Charles de Gaulle – a French General sets up government in London. (later President of France)

•  Germany now turns to England – BATTLE OF BRITIAN •  Winston Churchill is the British Prime Minister

•  “We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets…. We shall never surrender”

•  Royal Air Force (RAF) is attacked by the Luftwaffe (Germanys Air force) •  Bomb factories and cities…. Try to break British morale.

•  Radar helps Britain (new)

•  Enigma – decode German messages.

•  Oct of 1940 to May 1941…. Nightly bombings of London

•  British withstand attacks and Hitler focuses on Mediterranean and eastern Europe instead


•  Mediterranean (North Africa) and Eastern Front (Russia) •  Hitler’s partner is Italy’s Mussolini

•  Mussolini attacks Egypt and tries to controls the Suez Canal and oil fields of the Middle East.

•  Britain strikes back by the end of 1940 both sides are dug in. •  February 1941 British move forward and go 500 miles, taking

130,000 Italians POW. Hitler has to step in and help (Rommel. Is the German General in charge “desert fox”)

•  Rommel pushes Allied Troops back

•  Balkans- Hitler attacks Yugoslavia & Greece in April of 1941 •  Both all in a matter of days (11 & 17)

•  NOW ATTACKS SOVIETS EVEN THOUGH HITLER HAS ALLIANCE WITH THEM!

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•  U.S. tries to remain neutral

•  1935-1937 Passed law making it illegal to sell arms or lend money to nations at war

•  By 1939 Roosevelt (FDR) ask congress to allow allies to buy American Arms.

•  Eventually U.S. is pulled into War (Pearl Harbor 1941)

WWII 1939-1945 •  Pacific Theatre

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WWII 1939-1945 •  Pacific Theatre – Japan on a roll

•  Guam, Wake Island, Philippines (1942)

•  Bataan Death March – 70,000 POW’s

•  Brutal treatment of POW’s…. Kamikaze pilots…..

•  Hong Kong, Maylaya, Thailand, Singapore, Burma,…..

•  Allies Fighting Back

•  U.S. bombs Tokyo (more psychological, then physical)

•  Australia, Coral Sea, New Guinea, MIDWAY, Solomon Islands, Guadalcanal, Okinawa, Iwo Jima

•  Doolittle, Nimitz, MacArthur…… “I shall return”

WWII 1939-1945 •  Pacific Theatre –

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•  Battle for Stalingrad – bitter winter… bombing.

•  Aug 1942 to Feb 1943, 3330,000 German troops, only 90,000 left to surrender- Russia lost close to a million soldiers.

•  Italy invaded

•  D Day and beyond

•  Eisenhower is General in charge of allied forces…

•  (Russia want U.S. & Great Britain to attack German held France)

•  July 1943 Allied forces land in Italy and by September, Italy surrendered. (Mussolini tries to pose as a German Soldier. )

•  Mussolini is shot and body hung in downtown Milan….

WWII •  European Theatre

D Day June 6th 1944

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WWII •  European Theatre

•  D Day June 6th 1444


•  D Day June 6th 1444

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•  Battle of the Bulge… December 16 1944

•  Germans last offensive, … success early, but Allies push Germans back with no German reinforcements, the end is near.

•  V- E Day = Victory in Europe

•  From March to April is the march to Berlin

•  Hitler commits suicide,

•  May 1945, General Eisenhower accepted the Surrender of the Third Reich

•  FDR, Roosevelt dies on April 12, 1945…..

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WWII 1939-1945 •  Hitler Movie

WWII 1939-1945 •  Stalin Video

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WWII 1939-1945 •  Churchill video

WWII 1939-1945 •  Concentration Camps - GENOCIDE

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WWII 1939-1945 Concentration Camps

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WWII 1939-1945 •  Concentration Camps

•  Movie Schindler’s List


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WWII 1939-1945 •  War Efforts

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•  After the battles of Midway, Iwo Jima, Philippines, the U.S had driven Japan back.

•  Estimated number of death to conquer Japan in a traditional setting were astronomical, therefore the decision to use the Atomic Bomb was made…….

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WWII 1939-1945 •  Victory in the Pacific

•  Japan surrendered to General Douglas MacArthur on Sept 2, 1945 aboard the U.S. Missouri

•  U.S. occupies Japan

•  Government…..

•  Military….

•  UNITED NATIONS IS CREATED IN 1945

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WWII 1939-1945 •  Nurnberg Trials after WWII

WWII 1939-1945 •  Post War

•  Cold War

•  Arms Build up

•  Iron Curtain

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