WORLD WAR ll By: Meghan Lindner

HISTORY World War 2 occurred between 1939-1945. 1939- World War 2 was started when Germany invaded Poland on September 3rd, 1939. Britain and France declared war against Germany and were at war with Germany within a week because of this attack. 1940- Rationing starts in the UK - British victory in Battle of Britain forces Hitler to postpone invasion plans 1941- Japan attacks Pearl Harbor, December 7th (aka D-Day) - Hitler begins invasion of Russia (Operation Barbarossa) - The Blitz continues against Britain’s major cities - Allies take Tobruk in North America and resist German attacks 1942- Germany suffers setbacks at Stalingrad and El Alamein - Singapore falls to Japanese in February, about 25,000 POWs taken captive - American naval victory at Battle of Midway was the turning point for the Pacific War - Mass murder of Jewish people at Auschwitz begins HISTORY

1943- Surrender at Stalingrad marks Germany’s first major defeat - Allied victory in North Africa enables invasion of Italy to be launched - Italy surrenders, but German takes over Battle - British and Indian fight Japanese in Burma 1944- Allies land at Anzio and bomb monastery at Monte Cassino - Soviet offensive gathers pace in Eastern Europe - D-Day (allied invasion of Paris, France) is liberated in August - Guam liberated by the US Okinawa, and Iwo Jima bombed 1945- Auschwitz liberated by Soviet troops - Russians reached Berlin; Hitler commits suicide and Germany surrenders on May 7th - Truman becomes President of the United States on Roosevelt’s death, and Attlee replaces Churchill - After atomic bombs are dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan surrenders on August 14th History

WHO WAS INVOLVED? NEW ZEALAND NORWAY POLAND ROMANIA SLOVAKIA SOUTH AFRICA UNITED KINGDOM UNITED STATES USSR YUGOASLAVIA AUSTRALIA BELGIUM BRAZIL BULGARIA CANADA CHINA CZECHSLOVAKIA DENMARK ESTONIA HUNGARY GERMANY GREECE HUNGARY INDIA ITALY JAPAN LATVIA LITHUANIA MALTA THE NETHERLANDS

ALLIANCES THE ALLIES THE AXIS POWERS Lithuania Malta The Netherlands New Zealand Norway Poland South Africa United Kingdom United States USSR Yugoslavia Australia Belgium Brazil Canada China Czechoslovakia Denmark Estonia France Greece India Latvia THE AXIS POWERS GERMANY ITALY JAPAN SLOVAKIA HUNGARY ROMANIA BULAGARIA

Leaders Of WW2 FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT-USA HARRY TRUMAN- USA WINSTON CHURCHILL- GREAT BRITAIN CHARLES DE GAULLE- FRANCE JOSTEF STALIN- RUSSIA ALDOF HITLER- GERMANY BENITO MUSSOLINI- ITALY EMPOROR HIROHITO- JAPAN

What was the Nazi Party? The Nazi Party was a group of German people who believed that German’s were perfect and that certain racial enemies were not worthy of living such as Jews, Gypsies, Mentally and physically disabled, and homosexuals.

What was the Hlolocaust? Jews were thought of as an alien threat to the so-called German community. This lead into the Holocaust which was when the government paid for the murder of over six million Jews . The Holocaust is a Greek word for “sacrifice by fire”. They were “sacrificed” to the God’s by being killed by being shot, put in gas chambers, by dyeing of starvation, or by diseases.

Main Battles/Events in WW2 Battle of the River Plate Battle of Britain The Battle of Gazala The Battle of El Alamein The Battle of Moscow The Battle of Stalingrad The fall of Singapore The Battle of Kursk The Battle of Brittany The Battle of Arnhem The Battle of the Bulge The Battle of Berlin The Battle of Coral Sea The Battle of Midway The Battle of Guadalcanal The Battle of the Philippine Sea The Battle of Iwo Jima The Battle of Okinawa

Main Weapons and Vehicles Used Rifles Submachine guns Machine guns Grenades Mortars Sniper Rifles Combat Knives Torpedoes Tanks Armored cars and tanks Aircraft Aircraft Carriers Submarines

How did WW2 affect the american home front? Started to tax Americans for the payment of everything needed in the war Women started working jobs men usually worked Women went into Air Force and served as Air Force pilots

The Outcome for All Countries Many countries lost up to a tenth of their population Ended up being the most expensive wars in history ($1-$2 trillion dollars) Property damage totaled up to $239 billion dollars Germany was the only Axis Powers member that did not become a part of the United nations Unambiguous victory for America Unified a victory for freedom and democracy Germany, Italy, and Japan were completely defeated and transformed into unthreatening democracies