Transcript World War II

Poland Attacked: Sept. 1, 1939
Blitzkrieg
German Troops March into
Warsaw
Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis,
1940
The Tripartite Pact
European Theater of Operations
The “Phony War” Ends:
Spring, 1940
Dunkirk Evacuated
June 4, 1940
France Surrenders
June, 1940
A Divided France
Henri Petain
Battle of
Britain:
July – August,
1940
The Atlantic Charter:
August, 1941
1941 FDR and Churchill approve
the Atlantic Charter which
supported self-determination, a
new permanent system of general
security (a new League of
Nations), and the right of people
to regain governments abolished
by dictators.
Operation Barbarossa:
June, 1941
3,000,000 German
soldiers
3,400 tanks
The “Big Three”
Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt, Joseph
Stalin
Axis Powers in 1942
WWII was fought on two fronts:
In the Pacific: Japanese forces
reached their height of power in
1942.
In Europe, most of the fighting in
1942 was between the Soviets
and the Germans, as the Soviets
attempted to repel the Nazi
invasion.
All sides engaged in civilian
bombing.
High tide for Axis ends
in 1942, as US enters
war and because the
Soviets win at
Stalingrad.
Turning Point in the
East: Stalingrad
Battle of Stalingrad:
Winter of 1942-1943
German Army
Russian Army
1,011,500 men
1,000,500 men
10,290 artillery
guns
13,541 artillery
guns
675 tanks
894 tanks
1,216 planes
1,115 planes
The North Africa
Campaign:
The Battle of El Alamein, 1942
Gen. Ernst Rommel,
The “Desert Fox”
Gen.
Montgomery
(“Monty”)
Turning Point in
North Africa:
El Alamein:
German forces out
of N. Africa by May,
1943:Operation
Torch
After N. Africa, Then to Italy:
The Allies Liberate Rome:
June 5, 1944
Sicily was occupied in 1943,
Mussolini removed from
power, but Germans save
him from mountaintop
prison and return him to
power in N. Italy, which is
occupied by Germans until
1945.
Casablanca, January,
1943:
FDR and Churchill agree
to step up Pacific war,
invade Sicily, increase
pressure on Italy and
insist on an unconditional
surrender of Germany.
Teheran Conference,
November, 1943: Allies
agree to launch attacks
from Russia on the east
at the same time as US
and Great Britain attack
from west.
Gen. Eisenhower Gives the
Orders for D-Day “Operation
Overlord”
D-Day (June 6, 1944)
The largest invasion
by sea in history,
the Allies secured
several beachheads
on the Normandy
Coast.
The Liberation of Paris:
August 25, 1944
French Collaborators
The Battle of the Bulge:
Hitler’s Last Offensive
Dec. 16, 1944
to
Jan. 28, 1945
The Americans
reorganized, won the
Battle of the Bulge and
move towards Germany.
Horrors of the
Holocaust begin to be
uncovered as the Allies
and Soviets each advance
towards Berlin.
Yalta: February, 1945
Stalin agreed that Poland would have
free elections after the war and that
the Soviets would attack Japan within
three months of the collapse of
Germany. Soviets receive territory in
Manchuria and several islands; USSR
agrees to join the United Nations on
condition that she has three seats on
the Security Council, along with USA,
Britain, France and China.
Mussolini &
His Mistress,
Claretta
Petacci
Hung in
Milan, 1945
US & Russian Soldiers
Meet at the Elbe River:
April 25, 1945
Hitler Commits Suicide
April 30, 1945
V-E Day (May 8, 1945)
Pearl Harbor - Dec. 7, 1941
President Roosevelt Signs the
US Declaration of War
Pacific Theater of Operations
Bataan Death March - April, 1942
76,000 prisoners [12,000 Americans]
Marched 60 miles in the blazing heat to
POW camps in the Philippines.
Allied Counter-Offensive:
“Island-Hopping”
Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle:
First U. S. Raids on Tokyo, 1942
Battle of the Coral Sea:
May 7-8, 1942
Battle of Midway Island:
June 4-6, 1942
Turning Point
in the Pacific:
Midway
Japanese Kamikaze Planes:
“The Divine Wind”
Approximately 2,800
Kamikaze attackers
sunk 34 Navy ships,
damaged 368 others,
killed 4,900 sailors,
and wounded over
4,800
US Marines,
Iwo Jima [Feb. 19, 1945]
Potsdam Conference:
July, 1945
Germany divided into four zones.
Soviets to enter war against Japan.
United Nations Created.
The Manhattan Project:
Los Alamos,
NM
Dr. Robert
Oppenheimer
Hiroshima – August 6, 1945
Nagasaki – August 9, 1945
V-J Day (September 2, 1945)
V-J Day in Times Square, NYC