World War II

By: Lieutenant Sargent

How it got started?

►The Great Depression crippled the world’s economy. Germany’s republican form of government was a failure and the citizens turned them towards a fascist parties.

►Adolf Hitler’s Nazi party grew popular ►Hitler became chancellor of Germany and

left the League of Nations.►Germany invaded Poland on September

1,1939.►Britain and France declared war on Germany

three days later.

How it got started?

►South Africa declared war on Germany and Egypt broke its’ ties with Germany.

►In 1939, The United States declared its self neutral in the war.

►Germany, Italy, and Japan signed the Tripartite Pact in 1940, which is better known as the axis alliance.

What are we fighting for??

►On December 7, 1941 Japan bombed Pearl Harbor.

►Around 2,402 people were killed along with 4 battleships and 2 destroyers were sunk.

►The next day Roosevelt declared war on Japan.

Major Battles

►The Battle of the River Plate- The first major naval battle of the war.- The German ship, The Admiral Graf Spee, was outnumbered by the three British ships the Execter, Ajax, and Achilles.- The Admiral Graf took 70 shots to her and retreated away to nearby Uruguay.

The Battle of the River Plate

►On December 17, 1939 Captain Hans Langsdorf blew up his own ship knowing that he could not escape due to heavy damages and the British ships nearby waiting.

Major Battles

►Stalingrad- The German army was heavily

penetrated deep in the Soviet Union and Hitler ordered an attack on the city Stalingrad.

- Stalingrad was Russia’s center for communications as well as manufacturing.

- Each side had over one million soldiers fighting in the city.

Stalingrad

►Battles took place on every street and in houses.

►Soviet Commander Marshal Zhukov surrounded the city and re-took the entire city.

►The Germans started to remove all of their forces from Russia.

Major Battles

►D-Day/ Normandy- Was a part of Operation Overlord- The largest amphibious invasion ever!- The Invasion of Normandy purpose was the take the German forces out of France.- The soldiers came to shore and early in the morning and began to fight on June 6 1944.

Normandy

►There was over a quarter of a million allied causalitiesduring the invasion

Leaders of WWII

►Winston Churchill►Adolf Hitler►Neville Chamberlain►Joseph Stalin ►Hideki Tojo►Benito Mussolini►Franklin D. Roosevelt

Leaders of WWII

►Allied V. Axis

The End of WWII

►The Battle of Okinawa 1945.►The Atomic Bombs dropped on

Hiroshima and Nagasaki.►Japan Surrenders.►Mussolini is murdered.►Hitler commits suicide.►WWII ended the depression.►United Nations was born.

Holocaust

►Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany.

►Hitler blamed the Jews for the downfall of Germany.

►Hitler started by burning Jewish books and took away Jewish people’s jobs.

►Then the Nuremberg laws were made.- Jewish exclusion from the German society.

Holocaust

►When Germany invaded Poland, The Nazi’s created Ghetto’s for the Polish Jews.

►Jews made up ten percent of the Polish population, sent away to concentration camps.

►They were transported by livestock cars (train) and were crowded in there with little food or water.

Holocaust

►When the Jews arrived at the concentration camps their families were separated.

►They were killed in gas chambers.►They lived in barracks and starved to

death and froze to death.►Auschwitz was one of the biggest

concentration camps.

Holocaust

►The holocaust ended when World War II ended.

►Six million Jews were murdered.

Global connection to today

►It brought the United Nations►The advancement of weapons and

technology

Bibliography

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► "History of the Holocaust - An Introduction." Jewish Virtual Library - Homepage. Web. 02 Nov. 2011. <http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaus t/history.html>.

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► "World War II." United States American History. Web. 02 Nov. 2011. <http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1661.html>.