Transcript WWII Events

BATTLES AND EVENTS OF WORLD WAR II
EVENT
DATE
PURPOSE
KEY
PEOPLE/
TERMS
OUTCOME
Invasion
of Poland
1939
Reclaim
German
land
Hitler and
Stalin split
Poland
German
victory
The Fall
of France
1940
Revenge
Blitzkrieg:
“lightning
war”
German
victory
Battle of
Britain
1940
German
defeat of
Britain
“The Blitz”—
British
victory—
first Hitler
defeat
Germans
bomb London
by air
BATTLES AND EVENTS OF WORLD WAR II
EVENT
DATE
PURPOSE
KEY
PEOPLE/
TERMS
OUTCOME
Invasion
of USSR
1941
Germany
wants “living
space”
Hitler
backstabs
Stalin
4 year
battle—
USSR
victory
Pearl
Harbor
Dec.
7,
1941
Stop U.S.
power in
Asia
FDR: “day
June 6,
1944
Allied
invasion of
Europe
(France)
D-Day
Japanese
of infamy…” victory—
U.S. wants
revenge
Eisenhower
—Allied
commander
Allied
victory—
Germany
soon defeated
BATTLES AND EVENTS OF WORLD WAR II
EVENT
DATE
PURPOSE
Hiroshima
and
Nagasaki
Aug,
1945
Force
Japan to
surrender
Yalta
Feb,
1945
Decide
what to do
after War
Conference
Nuremburg 1946
Trials
Try Nazis for
Holocaust
KEY
PEOPLE/
TERMS
OUTCOME
200,000
Truman—
decided to deaths—
Japan
use asurrenders
bomb
FDR and
Stalin
FDR gives
Stalin
control of E.
Europe
after War
12 Nazis
hanged