WWII By: Tom Dobrick

Part I World War II was fought between the Axis and the Allies The Axis The Allies Germany USA Italy England Japan France Soviet Union

Germany Adolf Hitler - Axis

Italy Benito Mussolini - Axis

Japan Tojo Hideki - Axis

England Winston Churchill - Allies

France Charles De Gaulle - Allies

Russia Joseph Stalin - Allies

USA Franklin Roosevelt - Allies

Part II Submarine Warfare

submarines were widely used by both sides as the ultimate weapon of naval blockade, sinking large numbers of both merchant ships and warships German submarines were called U-boats (U for Underwater)

German U-Boat

World War II submarines were basically surface ships that could travel underwater for a limited time. Diesel engines gave them high surface speed and long range, but speed and range were severely reduced underwater. Underwater they used big storage batteries that had short life's. They has to surface many times to use the diesel engines to change the batteries.

USS Nautilus was the first nuclear-powered submarine. Electric Boat Company in Groton, Connecticut—the same company that had sold the U.S. Navy its first submarine in 1900—laid her keel 14 June the submarine was launched 18 months later and commissioned in September