Transcript World War II

World War II- A Total War for All
The start of the war...
WWII starts on September 1, 1939. It is a conflict
that will involve all areas of the world. It will cost
55 million people their lives. Financially, it will
cost countries billions of dollars. For example, the
United States will spend $341 billion dollars to
prosecute this war. Over 300,000 Americans will
die in this war.
The Soviet Union will bear the greatest human toll.
They will sacrifice 20 million people during the
war.
Millions of innocent people will be killed,
including the victims of the Holocaust.
USSR-German
Non-Aggression
Pact Signing
The United States prepares for war with a peace time
draft. We also pass Lend-Lease laws to support our
allies. On 12/7/1941 Japan launches an assault on the
Pacific Naval Base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. On
12/8/1941 the United States declares war. This in not
unexpected since the Japanese Imperial Government
and the US have limited diplomatic talks due to the
Americans freezing Japanese assets, stopping sales to
Japan of oil and scrap metals and the consequences
Japanese invasion of Manchuria and the Chinese
mainland.
The US quickly mobilizes for war and FDR assumes
greater powers to conduct the war. Citizens make
numerous sacrifices for the war effort.
Hitler
Nazi’s
conquest.
Hitler views Paris
after Nazi conquest,
1940.
Attack on Pearl Harbor December 7, 1941.
The Pacific strategy included several major naval
battles including Coral Sea, Midway and Leyte
Gulf. The technique of “island hopping” is
developed to overtake territories quickly. Soon the
US forces are able to command control over the
Pacific after early Japanese victories.
In October of 1944 General MacArthur leads US
forces back into the Philippine Island in the last
major assault before the proposed invasion of
Japan.
Japanese Americans being sent to relocation
camps in the western part of the United States.
Big Three at Teheran 1943.
Omaha Beach 1944.
Buzz Bomb V-1 before it explodes in London, 1944.
In the European theater, the Allied invasion of France
along the beaches of Normandy has left Germany fighting
battles in the east, south and west.
In a desperate attempt to weaken the Allies Hitler orders a
major advance in what becomes known as the Battle of the
Bulge (December 1944-January 1945). By the end of the
battle it is clear that Germany is in a desperate situation.
Through the use of clever deception, misinformation and
by providing numerical superiority in weaponry and
people the Axis powers in Europe are vanquished.
Horrifying discoveries await the Allies when they go past
the Siegfried Line into territories deep inside the Third
Reich.
United States troops move into Germany.
Concentration
camp locations.
SS round up Jews in Warsaw, Poland.
Being forced to wear the Star of David.
Inmate at Treblinka.
NAZI terror on display for residents in towns near the
Buchenwald death camp.
The once proud German army is drafting
soldiers at 16 years of age and is relying on
older men as well to bolster their army.
The Allies drop leaflets like this urging German
forces to surrender. Germany finally does on May
2, 1945.
“Its time to surrender.”
Mass surrender
of Germans
1945.
Big Three at Yalta. FDR dies one month later. Churchill
is voted out of office.
America wins the war because its citizens organize
massive drives to provide the troops with clothing,
food and materials necessary to conduct war.
All Americans feel the need to destroy totalitarian
governments that threaten the personal liberties of
all people. The “citizen soldier” is seen as a key
element in the victory.
“A week later, on 1
November, USS Claxton
was hit in one of the
first deliberate suicide
plane attacks of the war
by a Japanese plane
that exploded in the
water to starboard,
killing five and
wounding 23.”
My
uncle,
Bob
Logan
destroyerhistory.org
1945
“On 1 July, Shangri-La got underway from Leyte to return
to the combat zone. On the 2d, the oath of office of
Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Air was administered
to John L. Sullivan on board Shangri-La, the first
ceremony of its type ever undertaken in a combat zone.
Eight days later, her air group commenced a series of air
strikes against Japan which lasted until the capitulation on
15 August.”
My father standing
somewhere
near mid-ship on the way
home from Pearl Harbor,
Hawaii. He was a radar
operator.
VE Day London
Harry S. Truman takes over for FDR who
dies(4/12/45) in Georgia. Truman is told of a device
that might end the war early and save tens of
thousands of lives. In July the US successfully tests
its first a-bomb. Japan is asked to surrender. On
August 3, 1945 Japan refuses to surrender. On
August 6, 1945 the single plane, Enola Gay, drops a
bomb that kills 80,000 people. After a second bomb
is dropped Japan surrenders on August 14.
Nagasaki
Explosion
August
1945
Nagasaki after the atomic bomb is dropped.
Japanese surrender aboard the USS Missouri.
VJ Day Times Square NYC
Trial of Nazi war criminals.
Countries
Total Dead
USSR
20,600,000
CHINA
10,000,000
GERMANY 6,850,000
POLAND
6,123,000
JAPAN
2,000,000
YUGOSL
1,706,000
FRANCE
810,000
GREECE
520,000
USA
500,000
AUSTRIA
480,000
ROMANIA 460,000
HUNGARY 420,000
ITALY
410,000
CZECH
400,000
BRITAIN
388,000
HOLLAND 210,000
BELGIUM
88,000
FINLAND
84,000
AUSTRALIA 39,000
CANADA
34,000
ALBANIA
28,000
INDIA
24,000
NORWAY
10,262
NEW ZEALAND 10,000
LUXEMBOURG 5,000
TOTAL
52,199,262
% ofPop
10.4%
2.0%
9.5%
17.2%
2.7%
10.9%
1.9%
7.2%
0.4%
7.2%
3.4%
3.0%
0.9%
2.7%
0.8%
2.4%
1.1%
2.2%
0.3%
0.3%
2.5%
0.01%
0.3%
0.6%
1.7%
Military Deaths
13,600,000
Civilian Deaths
7,000,000
3,250,000
123,000
3,600,000
6,000,000
340,000
470,000
500,000
330,000
80,000
326,000
198,000
76,000
62,000
12,000
12,000