W ORLD W AR II IN E UROPE AND THE P ACIFIC 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”

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  – 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

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, 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