Transcript World War II

World War II
The greatest generation….
Beneto Mussolini – Facism began in
Italy
Adolf Hitler
Emperor Hirohito of Japan
Adm. Yamamoto
• "Of course the people don't want war. But after all,
it's the leaders of the country who determine the
policy, and it's always a simple matter to drag the
people along whether it's a democracy, a fascist
dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist
dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can
always be brought to the bidding of the leaders.
That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they
are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for
lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to
greater danger." -- Herman Goering at the
Nuremberg trials
The Battle of Britain
Winston Churchill-Prime
Minister of England
• WINSTON CHURCHILL: "We shall fight
on the beaches, we shall fight on the
landing grounds, we shall fight in the
streets, we shall fight in the hills, we shall
never surrender.“
• “Never before in field in human conflict
have so many owed so much to so few”
Lend-Lease
• Old American
destroyers sent to
England in exchange
for land to build
American military
bases in the
Caribbean.
• U.S. still neutral, but
not for long.
Radar (Radio Direction and
Ranging) helped to defend England
Hedy Lamar
• In 1942, unbeknownst to her adoring public, the unlikely
duo secured a patent and gave it to the United States
government for a "Secret Communications System"
expressly constructed to assist in the defeat of Hitler.
• The science presented in this patent serves as the basis for
the technology we use today in cell phones, pagers,
wireless Internet, defense satellites, and a plethora of other
spread-spectrum devices.
Londoners hide in subway
London during the Blitz
St. Paul’s survives the Blitz
The Miracle of Dunkirk
Nazi’s march into Paris
Luftwaffe Stukas-Nazi air power
Rommel: The desert fox - one of
the best Nazi generals
Dec. 7, 1941-A Day that will live
in infamy-Pearl Harbor
Japanese attack Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor-USS Arizona
Dedicated to the battling bastards
of Bataan!
American POWs - Bataan
Marines who gave all...
The battle of Iwo Jima
Gen. Eisenhower talking to US
paratroopers before D-Day
D-Day-largest invasion in history!
D-Day-crossing the Channel
D-Day-the cost to invade Fortress
Europe
D-Day wounded-France
D-Day + 4
Paratroopers land in France
US GI’s advance in heavy snow
Liberation of Paris!
US troops march thru Paris
V-E Day-victory in Europe
The Home front: shipbuilding
Women in non-traditional roles
Making bullets
Working together against Hitler
Lady Welder-Rosie the Riveter?
This was a church...
GI’s under fire in Germany
Germans made to witness victims
Am. Japanese are rounded up
Internment “camps” for
American Japanese citizens
Old/young/black/white-UNITED
in the war effort at home
Shopping with ration coupons to
conserve food
Collecting rubber for the war
Kids gather up scrap metal for
the war effort
Victory Gardens
War bond drives
VE DAY!
End of a Dictator!
US soldier-about to be beheaded
Col. Tibbits flies the plane that
would drop the A bomb
Atomic bombing of Hiroshima
Watch stopped at bomb’s drop
After the A-bomb
VJ day-US show of force
The price of freedom
Propaganda posters
World War II
Gold Stars in home windows
meant a soldier had died
Iwo Jima-most famous war photo
Rosie the Riveter poster