Transcript WWII - Utah Studies

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Introduction
German Conquest of Europe
German Invasion of Russia
Japanese Conquests
Pearl Harbor/
U.S. in WWII
VI. Allied Offensive
A. Europe
B. The Pacific
VII. War’s End
World War II
WORLD
WAR II
German Conquest of Europe
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Sept. 1, 1939 – Germany invades Poland
April 1940 – Denmark, Norway fall to Germany
1940 – Holland, Belgium, France(June 22) under
German control.
June 10, 1940 -- Mussolini joins Axis
Sept. 1940 – Italy invades Egypt from Libya.
German forces must support.
1940 – Greece, Balkan states, Crete, Hungary,
Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, overrun or come under
German influence.
Paris falls –
June 13, 1940
Vichy France
Henri Petain
Battle of
Britain
July 1940Sept. 1940
London-East End
Germany Invades Russia
-- Lebensraum
• June 22, 1941 – Operation Barbarossa,
Germany’s invasion of Russia begins.
• Close of 1941 – Moscow and Leningrad
under siege.
• Russia’s 3 great allies: Winter, Space,
Human Bodies, give her breathing room.
• 21-28 million Russians perish in WWII.
Russian Front
U.S. Maintains “Neutrality”
• Sept. 1940--Roosevelt, U.S. isolationist, but trade destroyers for bases.
• Aug. 1941—Congress passes Lend-Lease Act: promises to aid any country
whose defense considered vital to U.S. interests, with “all assistance short of
war.” (Neutrality stretching thin.)
Japanese Conquests
• *12/7/41 – Premeditated, sneak attack
by Japan on U.S. at Pearl Harbor.
• *U.S. declares war on Japan.
• *Germany declares war on U.S.
Japanese Conquest
in the Pacific
Allied Offensive in Europe
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Allies: Great Britain, USSR, Free French, U.S.
Axis: Germany, Italy, Japan,Vichy France, Hungary,
Romania, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria.
Neutral: Spain, Turkey, Sweden, Switzerland
1942--The low point for allied fortunes.
1943—Allies on offensive. Spring--Axis driven from
Africa, Allies invade Sicily, then mainland Italy.
June 6, 1944—D-day. Allies land on beaches of
Normandy.
April 30, 1945—Russian troops enter Berlin, storm
Reichstag. Hitler, new bride commit suicide. New leader
of Third Reich, Admiral Donitz sues for peace (May 7).
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Allies on the Offensive—The Pacific
1943-1945--Japanese evicted from Pacific islands
1945—Japanese retreating from Southeast Asia.
Push by Allies toward Japanese home islands.
1945—U.S. prepares for invasion of Japan.
August 6, 9, 1945—U.S. drops atomic bomb on
Hiroshima (100,000 killed), then Nagasaki.
Japan sues for peace on Sept. 2, 1945.
6 million Jews killed, 10-20 million
Poles, Russians, other Soviet peoples
murdered in “racial cleansing.”
WWII claims lives of more than
50 million soldiers and civilians.
Hiroshima
Nagasaki