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World War II in Europe

GERMANY

SYMBOL

KEY

LEADER

Swastika

Der Fuhrer

KEY

POLITICAL

PARTY

Nazis

NEW

EMPIRE

Third Reich

PARTY

POLICE

NEW ALLIANCE:

Axis Powers

TREATY WITH

RUSSIA:

Non-Aggression Pact


GERMANY & RUSSIA

INVADE

Poland

GERMANY INVADES:

September 1, 1939

RUSSIA INVADES:

September 17, 1939

GERMANY‟S

“LIGHTNING WAR”

“Blitzkrieg”


FRANCE & GERMANY

FACE-OFF

FRENCH

BORDER

DEFENSES

GERMAN

BORDER

DEFENSES

“THE PHONY WAR”

“SITZKRIEG” Maginot Line Siegfried Line


FRANCE & GERMANY

FACE-OFF Maginot Defenses Siegfried Defenses

Tunnels

Gun Emplacements


GERMANY DECIDES TO STRIKE

Invades on 9 April 1940:

DENMARK &

NORAWAY

Swept Across During

May 1940:

NETHERLANDS,

BELGIUM

& LUXEMBURG

Leaders eventually Surrendered

on 22 June 1940:

FRANCE

German Luftwaffe Began Bombing

in the Summer of 1940:

GREAT BRITAIN


GERMANY „S ACTIONS CAUSE WORLD WAR

MAIN ALLIED POWERS

Great Britain

France

United States

Soviet Union

MAIN AXIS POWERS

Germany

Italy

Japan

German Bomber

over London

German Bombs destroy London German B109 Bomber

British Fighters

German

Attack

Plans

German Luftwaffe Bombs England (1940-41)

Battle of Britain

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Siege of Tobruk

El Alamein

Field Marshall

Erwin Rommel

North Africa Campaign

Germans try to take the Middle East (1940-42)

DESERT FOX

Afrika Korps

Germans try to take Russia (1941-42) Operation Barbarossa

German advance in the Ukraine

Russian POW‟s from the

Battle of Minsk

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North Africa Campaign

Allies begin defeating Germany’s Afrika Korps in the Middle East (1942-43)

Rommel Montgomery

German’s Defeated at the Battle of Tunis

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Russians Stop Germans in Major Battle (1942-43)

Battle of Stalingrad

Beach Landings

at Anzio & Salerno

Allies Push Germans from Sicily to Rome (1943-45) Invasion of Italy

Audie L. Murphy

Battle at Monte Cassino

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General Eisenhower

Landing Craft

Normandy Beachead

Allies Liberate France and Belgium (Jun-Sep 1945)

Normandy

Invasions (D-Day)

Point Du-Hoc

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Airborne Drop Zones

Carentan, France

Normandy Invasions (D-Day)

Allied Cemetery

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Marching into Battle

Defending the Forest

“Old Blood & Guts”

George S. Patton

Allies Push into Germany (Dec 1944 - Mar 1945)

Battle of the

Bulge

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GERMANY‟S UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER

March 1945:

Americans Cross the

Rhine River into the

Heartland of Germany

April 1945:

Russians Surround Berlin

and start shelling the city

with heavy artillery fire

May 9th, 1945:

Germans Surrender to

General Eisenhower

in Berlin

World War II in the Pacific

IMPERIALIST JAPAN

Begins to Expand

Japanese

Battle Flag

The Rising Sun

In 1931 Japan Took Over:

MANCHURIA

In 1937 Japan Swept into:

MAINLAND CHINA

In 1941 Japan Overran:

INDO-CHINA

The U.S. Sent Aid to:

CHINA

The U.S. Cut Off Trade to Japan:

PETROLEUM (OIL)

The United States

Tried to Influence

Japan


IMPERIALIST JAPAN

Attacks Throughout the Pacific

Japan Surprise Attack on

December 7th, 1941:

PEARL HARBOR

Why was it such a Success?

1. Japanese maintained

diplomatic relations w/U.S.

2. U.S. Commanders ordered

ships & planes placed close

together to prevent sabotage

3. Japanese developed new

torpedo fins for shallow water

4. Japanese attacked early on

a Sunday Morning

U.S.S. Shaw (Sunk) Hickum Field (Destroyed)

Ford Island (Before Attack)

U.S.S. Arizona (Sunk) DEC 7th, 1941

SURPRISE

JAPANESE

ATTACK ON

PEARL HARBOR

U.S.S. Oklahoma (Capsized)


F.D.R.‟s Famous Speech

to Congress on Dec 8th, 1941

“A Date that will Live in Infamy” Allied Bases Attacked by the Japanese

1. Malaysia

2. Hong Kong

3. Guam

4. Philippines

5. Wake Island

6. Midway Island


JAPANESE VICTORIES CONTINUE

With the Capture of:

The Philippine Islands

SUPREME ALLIED

COMMANDER IN

THE PACIFIC

Gen. Douglas

MacArthur

Promised His Troops

“I Shall

Return”


THE ALLIES STRIKE BACK AT JAPAN

Dropped Bombs on:

Tokyo

U.S. Morale It Raised:

It Proved: Japan Vulnerable


U.S. STRIKES HARD AT JAPANESE FLEET (May 1942)

THE BATTLE OF

CORAL SEA

USED NEW TACTICS

NAVAL AIR WAR

(Carrier based Aircraft)


U.S. STRIKES HARD AT JAPANESE FLEET (Jun 1942)

THE BATTLE OF

MIDWAY

IMPORTANT EVENT: “TURNING POINT OF THE WAR”

http://www.cv6.org/1942/midway/default.htm


THE BATTLE OF MIDWAY

Why is it the Turning Point? Devastating Losses to the

Japanese Fleet Included:

4 Aircraft Carriers were sunk

• Akagi (Admiral‟s Flag Ship)

• Kaga

• Hiryu

• Soryu

1 Heavy Cruiser was sunk

• Mikuma

1 Heavy Cruiser badly damaged

• Mogami

3, 057 Japanese lives were lost

The Japanese lost their Naval

Superiority in the Pacific

Japanese began using suicide pilots known as: Kamikazes


U.S. MARINES STRIKE JAPANESE HELD ISLANDS

General MacArthur‟s

NEW PLAN

1. Take Control of Smaller

(less defended) Islands

2. Cut off Enemy Supply

Lines & Communication

3. Weaken enemy

4. Attack Larger Islands

with Marines

5. Repeat the process

ISLAND HOPPING



U.S. Marines land on Island

Fierce fighting causes this Island to

be known as the “Island of Death”

GUADALCANAL

Dead Bodies

Cover the Beaches

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This Island was immortalized

by the picture of the Marines

Raising the American Flag on

Mount Suribachi

IWO JIMA U.S. Marines Landing Zone


THE U.S. FORCES JAPAN TO SURRENDER

HIROSHIMA

1st ATOMIC BOMB (6 Aug 1945)


THE U.S. FORCES JAPAN TO

SURRENDER

NAGASAKI

2nd ATOMIC BOMB

(9 Aug 1945)


THE U.S. FORCES JAPAN TO SURRENDER

USS Missouri

September 2nd,1945

to Douglas MacArthur on the:

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