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World War II

World War II. Poland Attacked: Sept. 1, 1939. Blitzkrieg. German Troops March into Warsaw. Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis, 1940. The Tripartite Pact. European Theater of Operations. The “Phony War” Ends: Spring, 1940. Dunkirk Evacuated June 4, 1940. France Surrenders June, 1940.

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World War II

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  1. World War II

  2. Poland Attacked: Sept. 1, 1939 Blitzkrieg

  3. German Troops March into Warsaw

  4. Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis, 1940 The Tripartite Pact

  5. European Theater of Operations

  6. The “Phony War” Ends:Spring, 1940

  7. Dunkirk EvacuatedJune 4, 1940

  8. France SurrendersJune, 1940

  9. A Divided France Henri Petain

  10. Battle of Britain:July – August, 1940

  11. The Atlantic Charter: August, 1941 1941 FDR and Churchill approve the Atlantic Charter which supported self-determination, a new permanent system of general security (a new League of Nations), and the right of people to regain governments abolished by dictators.

  12. Operation Barbarossa:June, 1941

  13. 3,000,000 German soldiers 3,400 tanks

  14. The “Big Three” Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt, Joseph Stalin

  15. Axis Powers in 1942

  16. WWII was fought on two fronts: In the Pacific: Japanese forces reached their height of power in 1942. In Europe, most of the fighting in 1942 was between the Soviets and the Germans, as the Soviets attempted to repel the Nazi invasion. All sides engaged in civilian bombing.

  17. High tide for Axis ends in 1942, as US enters war and because the Soviets win at Stalingrad. Turning Point in the East: Stalingrad

  18. Battle of Stalingrad:Winter of 1942-1943

  19. The North Africa Campaign: The Battle of El Alamein, 1942 Gen. Ernst Rommel,The “Desert Fox” Gen. Montgomery(“Monty”)

  20. Turning Point in North Africa: El Alamein: German forces out of N. Africa by May, 1943:Operation Torch

  21. After N. Africa, Then to Italy:

  22. The Allies Liberate Rome:June 5, 1944

  23. Sicily was occupied in 1943,Mussolini removed from power, but Germans save him from mountaintop prison and return him to power in N. Italy, which is occupied by Germans until 1945.

  24. Casablanca, January, 1943:FDR and Churchill agree to step up Pacific war, invade Sicily, increase pressure on Italy and insist on an unconditional surrender of Germany.

  25. Teheran Conference, November, 1943: Allies agree to launch attacks from Russia on the east at the same time as US and Great Britain attack from west.

  26. Gen. Eisenhower Gives the Orders for D-Day “Operation Overlord”

  27. D-Day (June 6, 1944)

  28. The largest invasion by sea in history, the Allies secured several beachheads on the Normandy Coast.

  29. The Liberation of Paris:August 25, 1944

  30. French Collaborators

  31. The Battle of the Bulge:Hitler’s Last Offensive Dec. 16, 1944toJan. 28, 1945

  32. The Americans reorganized, won the Battle of the Bulge and move towards Germany. Horrors of the Holocaust begin to be uncovered as the Allies and Soviets each advance towards Berlin.

  33. Yalta: February, 1945 Stalin agreed that Poland would have free elections after the war and that the Soviets would attack Japan within three months of the collapse of Germany. Soviets receive territory in Manchuria and several islands; USSR agrees to join the United Nations on condition that she has three seats on the Security Council, along with USA, Britain, France and China.

  34. Mussolini & His Mistress,ClarettaPetacciHung in Milan, 1945

  35. US & Russian Soldiers Meet at the Elbe River: April 25, 1945

  36. Hitler Commits Suicide April 30, 1945

  37. V-E Day (May 8, 1945)

  38. The Pacific Theater

  39. Pearl Harbor - Dec. 7, 1941

  40. President Roosevelt Signs the US Declaration of War

  41. Pacific Theater of Operations

  42. Bataan Death March - April, 1942 76,000 prisoners [12,000 Americans] Marched 60 miles in the blazing heat to POW camps in the Philippines.

  43. Allied Counter-Offensive:“Island-Hopping”

  44. Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle:First U. S. Raids on Tokyo, 1942

  45. Battle of the Coral Sea:May 7-8, 1942

  46. Battle of Midway Island:June 4-6, 1942

  47. Turning Point in the Pacific: Midway

  48. Japanese Kamikaze Planes:“The Divine Wind”

  49. Approximately 2,800 Kamikaze attackers sunk 34 Navy ships, damaged 368 others, killed 4,900 sailors, and wounded over 4,800

  50. US Marines,Iwo Jima [Feb. 19, 1945]

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