Transcript World War II

World War II
• Fast Facts from the Pages of US
History and the Internet
• Chapters 24, 25
Adolf Hitler
Stuka Dive Bomber
Germany
“Phony War”
• Phase of World War II
• Poland conquered
• France waits
• Blitzkrieg
• France falls
Panzer
Germany
Charles DeGaulle
Free French
Operation Sealion
Operation Barbarossa
• June 22. Operation BARBAROSSA
begins. Over 3 million German soldiers and
3300 tanks cross the Russian border. The
Wehrmarcht (German Army) is organized
into three Army Groups . Facing them is the
world's largest army comprised of 230
divisions of 14,000 men each, with 20,000
tanks (many obsolete.) The Russian Army is
organized into four Military Districts.
American First Party
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• Charles Lindbergh speaking at an
American First Rally
(Picture supplied by Joseph Morabito)
Pearl Harbor
How many ships?
US Naval leaders
Chester Nimitz/ “Bull”W. Halsey
USS Nimitz
Desert Fox
Erwin Rommel
Operation Torch
North Africa
Operation Overlord
D-Day June 6th, 1944
D-Day
Normandy
9000 died the first day
Final Tribute
Benito Mussolini
ousted 1943
Killed 1945
US Planes
P-51/P-47 Thunderbolt
War-time summits
Haile Selassie
Ethopia
D-Day
• On June 6, 1944 two thousand seven
hundred ships showed up off the
coast of France
O.K. We'll go. Within hours an armada of 3,000 landing craft,
2,500 other ships,
and 500 naval vessels--escorts and bombardment ships
13,000 aircraft that would support D-Day.
Tuskegee Airmen
Lone Eagles
George C. Marshall
Kamikaze
“Divine Wind”
USS Essex
George S. Patton
Omar N. Bradley
• Know by his troops in World War II as
"The Soldier's General" because of his
care of and compassion for those soldiers
under his command
Bradley fighting vehicle
General Dwight D.Eisenhower
Supreme Allied commander
Ernie Pyle
General Douglas MacArthur
Iwo Jima
Joe Rosenthal
Photographer
“Island Hopping”
“Battle of the Bulge”
The Sullivan Brothers
Navajo code-talkers
Home-front
“Rosie the Riveter”
Flags flown for those in the
Military
Gold Star Mothers
Nuremberg Trials
Nazis on trial
Manhattan project-U.S. government
research project (1942–45) that
produced the first atomic bombs.
Hiroshima
Nagasaki
Surrender
War Ends
NORMANDY AMERICAN
CEMETERY AND MEMORIAL