SEPTEMBER 1 , 1939 TO SEPTEMBER 2 , 1945

World War Two

World War Two Begins

Leaders Come to Power

Nazi Germany: Adolf Hitler

Communist Soviet Union: Joseph Stalin

Fascist Italy: Benito Mussolini

Imperialist Japan: Emperor Showa Hirohito

United States Sticks with Isolationism

Hitler Begins His Expansion

1936 annex Rhineland

1938 annex Austria

1938 seize Sudetenland

1939 seize Czechoslovakia

Hitler’s Next Goal: Poland

Left: Germany signs a non-aggression pact with the Soviet Union

Above: After the signing, Hitler launches a blitzkrieg on Warsaw, Poland

Axis Powers Allied Powers

The Powers Align

Nazi Germany

Fascist Italy

Imperialist Japan

First only Great Britain

and France

Later the

Soviet Union, the

United States,

China, and 45 other countries

Above: Babe Ruth’s Draft Card

FDR Chooses Neutrality

Supply aid to Great Britain

Set up a military draft even though not at war

FDR runs for a 3rd term

Attack on Pearl HarborDecember 7, 1941

“A date that will live in infamy”

Changes on the Home front

Below: Mass production of airplanes Right: Rationing was considered a patriotic duty

Above: “Rosie” went to work

Above: A Japanese-ancestry internment camp in California

Internment of Japanese Americans

Above: A family of Japanese-ancestry marked and ready to be moved into an internment camp

Below: An example of the suspicion of Americans towards those of Japanese ancestry

Battle at Stalingrad in the Soviet Union

Battle at Kursk in the Soviet Union

War in the Atlantic

The Nazis break their non-aggression pact with the Soviets and attack Stalingrad Stalingrad would be right about

here (today it is called Volgograd)

Battle of Normandy in France (aka D-Day)

Battle of the Bulge in the Ardennes Forest of

Belgium

War in the Atlantic

FDR runs for a 4th term

Above: FDR’s last vice-president, Harry Truman

Top Right: last meeting of Allies Winston Churchill of Great Britain, Franklin D. Roosevelt of the US, and

Joseph Stalin of the Soviet Union before FDR’s death

Bottom Right: Military men reading of FDR’s death

V-E Day: Victory in EuropeMay 8, 1945

Atrocities of the Holocaust Revealed

6 million Jews murdered6 million Poles, Slaves, and Gypsies

murdered

Battle at Midway Islands in the Pacific

Battle at Iwo Jima a Japanese-owned Island

War in the Pacific

Battle at Okinawa a Japanese-owned island

War in the Pacific

The Japanese Surrender

July 1945: Allies meet in Potsdam , Germany

August 6, 1945: Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan

August 9, 1945: Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan

August 14, 1945: Emperor Hirohito announces surrender

V-J Day: Victory in JapanSeptember 2, 1945

Right: Emperor Hirohito

signing the official

surrender to General Douglas

MacArthur

Far Right: Photo taken

in Times Square, NYC

on August 14, 1945 by

Alfred Eisenstaedt

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