WORLD WAR II IN EUROPE AND THE PACIFIC

Unit 8 Day 5

The War in Europe

September 1, 1939 – Germany invades Poland September 4, 1939 – Britain and France declare war

April 1940 – Germany invades Denmark and Norway May 10, 1940 – German Invasion of France, Belgium,

Luxembourg, and Netherlands begins June 13, 1940 – Paris falls June 25, 1940 – France surrenders July 10, 1940 – Battle of Britain Begins April 1941 – Invasion of Balkans June 1941 – Surprise Invasion of Soviet Union, ending

Soviet Neutrality

Blitzkrieg – “Lightning War”

Blitzkrieg – “Lightning War”

Blitzkrieg – “Lightning War”

The War in Europe

The “Grand Alliance”

1939 – Taking advantage of WWII in Europe, Japan expands brutal conquest of Asia

1940 – Japan allies with Germany and Italy July 1941– US cuts off oil sales to Japan December 7, 1941 – Surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

December 8, US and Britain declare war on Japan December 11, Germany declares war on US

US, Britain, and Soviet Union – form “Grand Alliance” UK Prime Minister, Winston Churchill insists on “Europe First” policy

1942-1943 – Allied Campaigns in North Africa, Italy June 6, 1944 – “D-Day” Invasion of Normandy, France May 8, 1945 – Germany surrenders, V-E (Victory in Europe) Day

Pearl Harbor

Pearl Harbor

D-Day

War in the Pacific

1943 – 1945 – US begins “Island Hopping” Campaign in the Pacific Series of Naval Battles and Amphibious

Assaults on Pacific Islands Intensifies after V-E Day

February, June 1945 Iwo Jima and Okinawa Bloodiest battles of WWII

August 6, 9 1945 Atomic Bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

August 14, 1945 Japan Surrenders, V-J (Victory in Japan ) Day

Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Yalta Conference and the New World