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World war 2

World war 2. Ww2 went from 1939-1945. Many animals helped in the war. Women didn’t always work as nurses they also worked in factories making supplies. War wasn't just for fighting. War declared.

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World war 2

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  1. World war 2

  2. Ww2 went from 1939-1945 Many animals helped in the war Women didn’t always work as nurses they also worked in factories making supplies War wasn't just for fighting

  3. War declared After Great Britain declared war on Germany on 3 September 1939, Australia raised a volunteer force, the Second Australian Imperial Force (AIF), and sent the 6th, 7th and 9th Divisions of the AIF overseas to support Britain On 3 September 1939, Prime Minister Robert Gordon Menzies announced that Australia was at war with Germany.

  4. Prisoners of war (pow) / During the war, the Japanese captured 22,000 Australians: soldiers, sailors, airmen and members of the army nursing service, as well as some civilians. They were imprisoned in camps throughout Japanese 1More than 30,000 Australians became prisoners of war (POWs) between 1940 and 1945

  5. Between 1939 and 1945, they flew in both Australian and British squadrons with the Royal Air Force (RAF) in Coastal, Bomber and Fighter Commands. air The 27,899 aircrew, who had qualified under the Empire Air Training Scheme, supplied approximately 9 per cent of all aircrew who fought for the RAF in the Mediterranean and European theatres in the air war against Italy and Germany.

  6. War at sea During World War II, Royal Australian Navy (RAN) ships carried troops, escorted merchant ships, carried out bombardments and provided support for Allied operations in the Mediterranean, the North Sea and the Pacific and Indian Oceans. The war at sea also involved air forces, with Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) squadrons participating in anti-submarine patrols and attacks on shipping

  7. The Japanese Government has accepted the terms of surrender imposed by the Allied Nations and hostilities will now cease. On 6 August 1945, a United States B-29 bomber known as the ‘Enola Gay’ dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima killing more than a third of the city’s population of 350,000. 1945. devastated by Allied bombing and the threat of invasion, Japan surrendered.

  8. the end!!! We hoped you liked our presentation By Sam Baber & Riley Haberman

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