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World War II
Europe
Leaders during WWII
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US- Franklin Roosevelt
Soviet Union- Joseph Stalin
England- Winston Churchill
Germany- Adolph Hitler
Italy- Benito Mussolini
Spain- Francisco Franco
Hitler's Power
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Hitler overturns Europe using “blitzkrieg”
Took over Poland and Eastern Europe
The Phony War 1939-1940
Dunkirk
Invades Russia
Attacks England/Battle of Britain and
Battle of the North Atlantic
• Hitler invades Africa
Germanys downfall
• Stalingrad- Russians capture an entire
German army and stop the Nazi invasion
• El Alemain- The English stopped the
Germans from advancing to Africa
Taking over Europe from the Nazis
• D- Day invasion, on the beaches of
Normandy in France
• Allies attack Normandy
• Battle of the Buldge, results from a
massive German counter attack
• The US and the Russians meet in the
middle of Germany
• Concentration camps murdered 12 million
people- 6 million of them were Jews