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1 World War II Fast Facts from the Pages of US History and the Internet
Chapters 24, 25

2 Adolf Hitler

3 Stuka Dive Bomber Germany

4 “Phony War” Phase of World War II Poland conquered France waits Blitzkrieg France falls

5 Panzer Germany

6 Charles DeGaulle Free French

7 Operation Sealion

8 Operation Barbarossa June 22. Operation BARBAROSSA begins. Over 3 million German soldiers and tanks cross the Russian border. The Wehrmarcht (German Army) is organized into three Army Groups . Facing them is the world's largest army comprised of divisions of 14,000 men each, with 20,000 tanks (many obsolete.) The Russian Army is organized into four Military Districts.

9 American First Party Charles Lindbergh speaking at an American First Rally (Picture supplied by Joseph Morabito)

10 Pearl Harbor How many ships?

11 US Naval leaders Chester Nimitz/ “Bull”W. Halsey

12 USS Nimitz

13 Desert Fox Erwin Rommel

14 Operation Torch North Africa

15 Operation Overlord D-Day June 6th, 1944

16 D-Day

17 Normandy 9000 died the first day

18 Final Tribute

19 Benito Mussolini ousted 1943 Killed 1945

20 US Planes P-51/P-47 Thunderbolt

21 War-time summits

22 Haile Selassie Ethopia

23 D-Day On June 6, 1944 two thousand seven hundred ships showed up off the coast of France O.K. We'll go. Within hours an armada of 3,000 landing craft, 2,500 other ships, and 500 naval vessels--escorts and bombardment ships 13,000 aircraft that would support D-Day.

24 Tuskegee Airmen Lone Eagles

25 George C. Marshall

26 Kamikaze

27 “Divine Wind” USS Essex

28 George S. Patton

29 Omar N. Bradley Know by his troops in World War II as "The Soldier's General" because of his care of and compassion for those soldiers under his command

30 Bradley fighting vehicle

31 General Dwight D.Eisenhower Supreme Allied commander

32 Ernie Pyle

33 General Douglas MacArthur

34 Iwo Jima

35 Joe Rosenthal Photographer

36 “Island Hopping”

37 “Battle of the Bulge”

38 The Sullivan Brothers

39 Navajo code-talkers

40 Home-front “Rosie the Riveter”

41 Flags flown for those in the Military

42 Gold Star Mothers

43 Nuremberg Trials

44 Nazis on trial

45 Manhattan project-U.S. government research project (1942–45) that produced the first atomic bombs.

46 Hiroshima

47 Nagasaki

48 Surrender War Ends

49 NORMANDY AMERICAN CEMETERY AND MEMORIAL

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