Transcript World War II - The Woodlands High School

World War II
The Most Popular War
Recap
• Germany
• Adolph Hitler
• Rhineland & Czechoslovakia
• Italy
• Benito Mussolini
• Albania & Ethiopia
• Japan
• Moved on China
• Allies & League of Nations
• Did nothing
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Blitzkrieg
September 1, 1939
Starts World War II
France & Britain
declare war on
Germany
• Germany & Soviets
split Poland
• Non-Aggression Pact
Germany Invades Poland
• Germany
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Denmark
Norway
Holland
Belgium
Luxembourg
• Soviets
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Lithuania
Latvia
Estonia
Finland
Quick Victories
• Germany used its
surrounding victories to
get by France’s defenses
on the German-French
border
• The Allies, in trouble,
headed for the English
Channel
• British ships rescued the
soldiers and transported
them to England
Germany Moves on France
• Benito Mussolini joins
Hitler and attacks
France from the south
• With limited soldiers,
France falls in June of
1940
• Hitler Annexes the
northern half
• The southern part had a
puppet regime installed
Fall of France
• French General
• Lead an underground
resistance from London
• Worked throughout
WWII to liberate
France
• The Airport in Paris is
named after him today
Charles de Gaulle
• Germany begins to bomb
England
• Luftwaffe
• Airfields, factories, cities
• Lasted 9 months
• England withstood the
barrage and Hitler
eventually gave up
• RAF
• Radar
• Enigma
The Battle of Britain
• British Prime Minister
during World War II
• Vowed to never
surrender to the Nazis
• Lead the British
through the war
• Celebrated as one of the
UK’s greatest heroes
today
Winston Churchill
• Begins in 1940
• Italy wants to take
Egypt from Britain
• Germany later joins
• Axis Powers &
Britain battle over this
territory
War in Northern Africa
• Germany puts pressure
in the Balkans to
eventually take the
USSR
• Bulgaria, Romania &
Hungary submit
without a fight
• Yugoslavia fights, but is
beaten in 3 weeks
War in the Balkans
• Blitzkrieg rolls on June
22, 1941
• Soviets are the largest
army in the world
• Hitler pushes into the
USSR
• Russians use S.E.P.
• Hitler tries to take both
Leningrad & Moscow
• Stopped by Russian
endurance & winter
Hitler Invades the USSR
• USA aids Allied nations
• Lend-Lease Act
• USA worries about Japan
in SE Asia
• Guam & Philippines
• USA withholds oil from
Japan in an effort to slow
their conquest
• Japan sees the USA as
blocking their empire
building
The USA Remains Neutral
• December 7, 1941
• Naval base in Hawaii
• Most of the USA
Pacific Fleet was
destroyed
• 2400 Soldiers died
• USA declares war on
Japan the next day
Pearl Harbor
• Allied Powers
• USA
• Britain
• USSR
• Axis Powers
• Germany
• Italy
• Japan
• Theaters of War
• European
• Pacific
The Major Players of WWII
The Pacific Theater
• After Pearl Harbor,
Japan begins to
conquer many islands
in SE Asia
• US begins to win with
the Doolittle Raid,
followed by Midway
• May & June, 1942
General Douglas MacArthur
 Leader of US forces
in the Pacific
 Japanese had fortified
themselves on
hundreds of islands
 Island Hopping
 Take less fortified
islands
 Cut supply lines
The European Theater
• Victory in USSR
• February 1943
• Victory in Northern Africa
• May 1943
• Italy conquered
• January 1943 - June 1944
• Germany now stands alone
• For the most part
D-Day
• Operation Overlord
• June 6, 1944
• Greatest Land & Sea
Attack in history
• Allies stormed the beaches
of Normandy
• German occupied France
• Five Total Beaches
• By September, Allies
liberated France, Belgium,
Luxembourg and the
Netherlands
General Dwight D. Eisenhower
• US General during
WWII
• Fought in Africa &
Europe
• Lead the D-Day
Invasion
• Eventual President of
the United States
VE Day
• Victory in Europe Day
• Allies push in from
France, Soviets from
USSR
• Germany surrenders in
May 1945
The Holocaust
• Hitler’s plan is to eliminate
“undesirables”
• Wants to make Europeans
serve Germany
• Anti-Semitism
• Kristallnacht
• Concentration Camps
• Ghettos
• Final Solution
VJ Day
• Victory in Japan Day
• War still rages in the
Pacific
• US forces are pushing
Japan back, but casualties
are great
• Kamikazes
• Iwo Jima
• US drops two A-Bombs,
Japan surrenders
• Hiroshima
• Nagasaki
What Happened?
• Benito Mussolini
• Tried to escape Italy, captured and
shot
• Adolf Hitler
• Committed suicide in May 1945
• Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Died in April 1945
• VP Harry Truman
• Joseph Stalin
• Ruled USSR until death in 1953
• Winston Churchill
• Prime Minister again in 1950’s, died
in 1965
• Dwight D. Eisenhower
• National Hero, President
• Charles de Gaulle
• National Hero, President
Post War
• Obvious Stuff
• Death, destruction, etc
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Nuremberg Trials
Marshall Plan
Yalta Conference
The Cold War