1. World
War II

2. Poland Attacked: Sept. 1, 1939
Blitzkrieg

3. German Troops March into Warsaw

4. Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis, 1940
The Tripartite Pact

5. European Theater of Operations

6. The “Phony War” Ends: Spring, 1940

7. Dunkirk Evacuated June 4, 1940

8. France Surrenders June, 1940

9. A Divided France
Henri Petain

10. Battle of Britain: July – August, 1940

11. The Atlantic Charter: August, 1941
1941 FDR and Churchill approve the Atlantic Charter which supported self-determination, a new permanent system of general security (a new League of Nations), and the right of people to regain governments abolished by dictators.

12. Operation Barbarossa: June, 1941

13. 3,000,000 German soldiers
3,400 tanks

14. The “Big Three”
Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt, Joseph Stalin

15. Axis Powers in 1942

16. WWII was fought on two fronts:. In the Pacific: Japanese forces
WWII was fought on two fronts: In the Pacific: Japanese forces reached their height of power in In Europe, most of the fighting in was between the Soviets and the Germans, as the Soviets attempted to repel the Nazi invasion. All sides engaged in civilian bombing.

17. High tide for Axis ends. in 1942, as US enters. war and because the
High tide for Axis ends in 1942, as US enters war and because the Soviets win at Stalingrad. Turning Point in the East: Stalingrad

18. Battle of Stalingrad: Winter of 1942-1943
German Army
Russian Army
1,011,500 men
1,000,500 men
10,290 artillery guns
13,541 artillery guns
675 tanks
894 tanks
1,216 planes
1,115 planes

19. The North Africa Campaign: The Battle of El Alamein, 1942
Gen. Ernst Rommel, The “Desert Fox”
Gen. Montgomery (“Monty”)

20. Turning Point in North Africa: El Alamein: German forces out of N. Africa by May, 1943:Operation Torch

21. After N. Africa, Then to Italy:

22. The Allies Liberate Rome: June 5, 1944

23. Sicily was occupied in 1943, Mussolini removed from power, but Germans save him from mountaintop prison and return him to power in N. Italy, which is occupied by Germans until 1945.

24. Casablanca, January, 1943: FDR and Churchill agree to step up Pacific war, invade Sicily, increase pressure on Italy and insist on an unconditional surrender of Germany.

25. Teheran Conference, November, 1943: Allies agree to launch attacks from Russia on the east at the same time as US and Great Britain attack from west.

26. Gen. Eisenhower Gives the Orders for D-Day “Operation Overlord”

27. D-Day (June 6, 1944)

28. The largest invasion by sea in history, the Allies secured several beachheads on the Normandy Coast.

29. The Liberation of Paris: August 25, 1944

30. French Collaborators

31. The Battle of the Bulge: Hitler’s Last Offensive
Dec. 16, 1944 to Jan. 28, 1945

32. The Americans reorganized, won the Battle of the Bulge and move towards Germany. Horrors of the Holocaust begin to be uncovered as the Allies and Soviets each advance towards Berlin.

33. Yalta: February, 1945
Stalin agreed that Poland would have free elections after the war and that the Soviets would attack Japan within three months of the collapse of Germany. Soviets receive territory in Manchuria and several islands; USSR agrees to join the United Nations on condition that she has three seats on the Security Council, along with USA, Britain, France and China.

34. Mussolini & His Mistress, Claretta Petacci Hung in Milan, 1945

35. US & Russian Soldiers Meet at the Elbe River: April 25, 1945

36. Hitler Commits Suicide April 30, 1945

37. V-E Day (May 8, 1945)

38. The
Pacific
Theater

39. Pearl Harbor - Dec. 7, 1941

40. President Roosevelt Signs the US Declaration of War

41. Pacific Theater of Operations

42. Bataan Death March - April, 1942
76,000 prisoners [12,000 Americans] Marched 60 miles in the blazing heat to POW camps in the Philippines.

43. Allied Counter-Offensive: “Island-Hopping”

44. Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle: First U. S. Raids on Tokyo, 1942

45. Battle of the Coral Sea: May 7-8, 1942

46. Battle of Midway Island: June 4-6, 1942

47. Turning Point in the Pacific: Midway

48. Japanese Kamikaze Planes: “The Divine Wind”

49. Approximately 2,800 Kamikaze attackers sunk 34 Navy ships, damaged 368 others, killed 4,900 sailors, and wounded over 4,800

50. US Marines, Iwo Jima [Feb. 19, 1945]

51. Potsdam Conference: July, 1945
Germany divided into four zones.
Soviets to enter war against Japan.
United Nations Created.

52. The Manhattan Project: Los Alamos, NM
Dr. Robert Oppenheimer

53. Hiroshima – August 6, 1945

54. Nagasaki – August 9, 1945

55. V-J Day (September 2, 1945)

56. V-J Day in Times Square, NYC