World War II Pearl Harbor 1941

Terms—World War II Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact Blitzkrieg Winston Churchill The “Blitz” Operation Barbarossa New Order Holocaust Final Solution Auschwitz D-Day (June 4, 1944) Hiroshima Nagasaki

Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact (8/1939) 10 year agreement suits both German and Russian plans Molotov, Ribbentrop, Stalin

German Invasion of Poland (9/1939)

Britain Declares War Sept. 3, 1939

Rotterdam, May 1940

British Troops Stranded on the Shores of Dunkirk—May 1940

Dunkirk Evacuation—May 1940

Winston Churchill (1874-1965) Consistently opposed German expansion First Lord of Admiralty when war declared Prime Minister (5/1940)

English girl during The ‘Blitz’

A London Street During the “Blitz”

King George VI & Queen Elizabeth Visiting Their People During the ”Blitz”

The King & Queen

World War II September 1939 Spring 1940 1940-1941: Battle of Britain 1 Sept: Germany invades Poland 3 Sept: Britain & France declare war Chamberlain’s announcement Spring 1940 Germany invades Denmark, Norway, Holland, Belgium, Luxembourg, France 1940-1941: Battle of Britain

Operation Barbarossa—June 1941

Germany Invades Russia (6/1941)

Pearl Harbor—December 7, 1941

Ukrainian Jews Sorted by Nazis

The Holocaust The organized and systemized mass murder of Jews

The Final Solution

Auschwitz

Auschwitz (“Work Will Set You Free”)

Allied Victories--1942 El-Alamein (North Africa) Battle of Midway (Pacific) Battle of Stalingrad (Russia)

D-Day—June 6, 1944 (Photo Taken by a German Private)

D-Day

D-Day

Man-Made Harbor—Gold Beach

Man-Made Harbor—Gold Beach

German Bunker on Omaha Beach

German Bunker on Omaha Beach

Interior German Bunker

View From Bunker

Les Braves Sculpture on Omaha Beach Commemorating Those Who Fought

Crater Next to Bunker

D-Day American Cemetery

Mussolini, his mistress, and supporters, killed by an Italian mob (April 1945)

V.E. Day (5/7/45)—Churchill Waves to the Crowds

Hiroshima (8/6/45)

Nagasaki (8/9/45)