Transcript World War 2 was started when Germany invaded Poland on

By: Meghan Lindner
World War 2 occurred between 1939-1945.
•1939- World War 2 was started when Germany invaded
Poland on September 3rd, 1939. Britain and France declared
war against Germany and were at war with Germany within a
week because of this attack.
•1940- Rationing starts in the UK
- British victory in Battle of Britain forces Hitler to
postpone
invasion plans
•1941- Japan attacks Pearl Harbor, December 7th (aka D-Day)
- Hitler begins invasion of Russia (Operation Barbarossa)
- The Blitz continues against Britain’s major cities
- Allies take Tobruk in North America and resist German
attacks
•1942- Germany suffers setbacks at Stalingrad and El Alamein
- Singapore falls to Japanese in February, about 25,000
POWs taken captive
- American naval victory at Battle of Midway was the
turning point for the Pacific War
- Mass murder of Jewish people at Auschwitz begins
• 1943- Surrender at Stalingrad marks Germany’s first major defeat
- Allied victory in North Africa enables invasion of Italy to be
launched
- Italy surrenders, but German takes over Battle
- British and Indian fight Japanese in Burma
• 1944- Allies land at Anzio and bomb monastery at Monte Cassino
- Soviet offensive gathers pace in Eastern Europe
- D-Day (allied invasion of Paris, France) is liberated in
August
- Guam liberated by the US Okinawa, and Iwo Jima bombed
• 1945- Auschwitz liberated by Soviet troops
- Russians reached Berlin; Hitler commits suicide and
Germany surrenders on May 7th
- Truman becomes President of the United States on
Roosevelt’s death, and Attlee replaces Churchill
- After atomic bombs are dropped on Hiroshima and
Nagasaki, Japan surrenders on August 14th
AUSTRALIA
GERMANY
NEW ZEALAND
BELGIUM
GREECE
NORWAY
BRAZIL
HUNGARY
POLAND
BULGARIA
INDIA
ROMANIA
CANADA
ITALY
SLOVAKIA
CHINA
JAPAN
SOUTH AFRICA
CZECHSLOVAKIA
LATVIA
UNITED KINGDOM
DENMARK
LITHUANIA
UNITED STATES
ESTONIA
MALTA
USSR
HUNGARY
THE NETHERLANDS
YUGOASLAVIA
THE ALLIES
THE AXIS POWERS
• GERMANY
• ITALY
• JAPAN
• SLOVAKIA
• HUNGARY
• ROMANIA
•BULAGARIA
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•Lithuania
•Malta
Australia
•The
Belgium
Netherlands
Brazil
•New Zealand
Canada
•Norway
China
Czechoslovakia •Poland
•South Africa
Denmark
•United
Estonia
Kingdom
France
•United States
Greece
•USSR
India
•Yugoslavia
Latvia
• FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT-USA
• HARRY TRUMAN- USA
• WINSTON CHURCHILL- GREAT BRITAIN
• CHARLES DE GAULLE- FRANCE
• JOSTEF STALIN- RUSSIA
• ALDOF HITLER- GERMANY
• BENITO MUSSOLINI- ITALY
• EMPOROR HIROHITO- JAPAN
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The Nazi Party was a group of
German people who believed that
German’s were perfect and that
certain racial enemies were not
worthy of living such as Jews,
Gypsies, Mentally and physically
disabled, and homosexuals.
Jews were thought of as an
alien threat to the so-called
German community. This
lead into the Holocaust
which was when the
government paid for the
murder of over six million
Jews . The Holocaust is a
Greek word for “sacrifice by
fire”. They were “sacrificed”
to the God’s by being killed
by being shot, put in gas
chambers, by dyeing of
starvation, or by diseases.
Battle of the River Plate
Battle of Britain
The Battle of Gazala
The Battle of El Alamein
The Battle of Moscow
The Battle of Stalingrad
The fall of Singapore
The Battle of Kursk
The Battle of Brittany
The Battle of Arnhem
The Battle of the Bulge
The Battle of Berlin
The Battle of Coral Sea
The Battle of Midway
The Battle of Guadalcanal
The Battle of the Philippine Sea
The Battle of Iwo Jima
The Battle of Okinawa
WEAPONS
VEHICLES
• Rifles
• Submachine guns
• Tanks
• Machine guns
• Armored cars and tanks
• Grenades
• Aircraft
• Mortars
• Aircraft Carriers
• Sniper Rifles
• Submarines
• Combat Knives
• Torpedoes
• Started to tax Americans
for the payment of
everything needed in the
war
• Women started working
jobs men usually worked
• Women went into Air Force
and served as Air Force
pilots
• Many countries lost up to a tenth of their population
• Ended up being the most expensive wars in history ($1$2 trillion dollars)
• Property damage totaled up to $239 billion dollars
• Germany was the only Axis Powers member that did
not become a part of the United nations
• Unambiguous victory for America
• Unified a victory for freedom and democracy
• Germany, Italy, and Japan were completely defeated
and transformed into unthreatening democracies