1. The War Room: 1. Sides of War 2.War in Europe
World History
Unit 7

2. Directions This PowerPoint has two worksheets
The first, Sides of War, is very short 

3. Sides in the War Identification:
Despite all efforts to negotiate peace, the world is forced into war by militaristic countries.
Significance:
The world is at war again. Countries choose alliances.
Stalin, Roosevelt, Churchill
Hirohito, Hitler, Mussolini

4. 1. Axis Powers
Japan
Germany
Italy

5. Other Axis Countries
Bulgaria
Hungary
Romania

6. 2. Allies
2. Allies
Great Britain
Soviet Union
United States
and…

7. Other Allies: France China Australia Belgium Brazil Canada
Czechoslovakia
Ethiopia
Greece
India
Mexico
Netherlands
New Zealand
Norway
Philippines
Poland
Union of South Africa
Yugoslavia

8. Roosevelt declares war on Japan
Hitler declares war on the U.S.
Roosevelt declares war on Japan

9. War In Europe

10. 1. Blitzkrieg Identification:
Means "lightning war.” A concentration of tanks, infantry, artillery and air power, attacking with overwhelming force and rapid speed to break through enemy lines.
Significance
Used by Hitler as a strategy
to quickly conquer enemies
as a way to avoid WWI type trench warfare.

11. Porsche King Tiger Tanks
German Luftwaffe
RSO towing
105 mm howitzer
Porsche King Tiger Tanks

12. 2. Battle of Dunkirk May 27th – June 4th
Identification:
332,226 men were rescued in a valiant effort from Dunkirk while holding off 800,000 German troops.
French and British troops continued to fight while the British escaped.
The RAF fought in the air while the Germans sought to attack the soldiers boxed in on the ground

13. Dunkirk Find Dunkirk on the map
Notice the arrows on the map indicating German troops converging and surrounding the French and British troops at Dunkirk

14. 2. Battle of Dunkirk Significance:
British losses included 68,111 killed, wounded, and captured.
The evacuation preserved the core of the British Army and made it available for the immediate defense of Britain.
In addition, significant
numbers of French, Dutch,
Belgian, and Polish troops
were rescued.
2. Battle of Dunkirk

16. 3. Battle of Britain - “The Blitz” ( Sept. 1940 – May 1941)
Identification:
Aug. 1940, Germany launched a major air offensive over Great Britain. In the beginning, Germany bombed British air bases, naval bases and war industries

17. 3. Battle of Britain - “The Blitz” ( Sept. 1940 – May 1941)
Significance:
British air force suffered critical losses.
British retaliate by bombing Berlin
Germany retaliates by bombing civilians in major British cities.

18. "Children in London, made homeless by the bombs of the Nazi night raiders, waiting outside the wreckage of what was their home". September 1940
Bomb shelter in a
London Underground

19. Dropping bundles of 4 lb stick incendiaries
4. Carpet bombing
Identification:
Large scale air bombing with the aim of complete destruction of a large area or city.
Used to demoralize the enemy; making the prospect of peace or surrender preferable.
Dropping bundles of 4 lb stick incendiaries
Blockbuster or cookie was the name given to several of the largest conventional bombs used in World War II by the Royal Air Force (RAF). The term Blockbuster was originally a name coined by the press and referred to a bomb which had enough explosive power to destroy an entire city block.
Seconds later, the same aircraft releases the main part of its load, a 4,000 lb HC "cookie" and  lb "J" incendiaries

20. 4. Carpet bombing Significance:
Used extensively by the Allies against Germany and Japan during WWII causing the deaths of approximately 116,048 German citizens
Blockbuster or cookie was the name given to several of the largest conventional bombs used in World War II by the Royal Air Force (RAF). The term Blockbuster was originally a name coined by the press and referred to a bomb which had enough explosive power to destroy an entire city block.

21. destroyed by carpet bombing
97% of Wesel, Germany was
destroyed by carpet bombing
Wesel, Germany before Allies carpet bombed the city

22. Bombing of Dresden Germany Feb,1945: 1,300 British and USA
heavy bombers dropped more than 3,900 tons of high-explosive bombs and incendiary devices on the city. The resulting firestorm destroyed 15 sq miles.

23. 25,000 people killed in Dresden
Bodies waiting to
be cremated

24. 5. Luftwaffe Identification: German air force
Considered the strongest, most technically superior and battle-experienced air force in the world at the start of WWII
Significance:
Essential to the success of Hitler's “Blitzkrieg” and Battle of Britain.
Allowed Germany to conquer most of Europe in the first nine months of the war

25. WWII Aircraft

26. German Aircraft

27. -                                                                                                                                      
Japanese Aircraft

28. Italian Aircraft

29. American Aircraft

30. Pétain shaking hands with Hitler
6. Vichy France
Identification:
Established after France surrendered to Germany June 1940.
Marshal Pétain, the Prime Minister, set up a semi-fascist regime that actively collaborated with Germany
Significance:
Free French Forces of Charles de Gaulle (based first in London and later in Algiers) continuously held
that the Vichy regime was an illegal government run by traitors.
Pétain shaking hands with Hitler

31. France during WWII

32. 7. El Alamein Identification:
General Rommel
Identification:
Axis attempt to take control of North Africa, with plans to move on to the oil fields of the Middle East.
The First Battle of El Alamein in July had stalled the Axis advance.
The second Battle of El Alamein defeated the Axis

33. 7. El Alamein Significance:
It was a turning point for the Allies in the North African front of WWII.
Winston Churchill said, "Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat."

34. 8. Stalingrad Identification:
Battle between Germany and USSR for control of the city of Stalingrad, Russia.
The battle took place between July February 1943.

35. 8. Stalingrad Significance:
The bloodiest battle in modern history, with combined casualties estimated to be above 1.5 million.
The entire German Sixth Army, considered the best of the German troops, was lost.
The turning point in the war between the Axis and Soviets

36. Junkers Ju 87 Stuka dive bombers over Stalingrad.
Soviet infantry storming a factory in Stalingrad.

37. 9. D-Day / Normandy Identification:
D-Day: Allies invade Europe in 1944 (France) from Great Britain. General Eisenhower is in charge
Normandy: “Operation Overlord.” Allies land on the beaches of Normandy in a enormous naval and air operation

38. Significance:
By nightfall on June 6th 1944-D-Day, Hitler's Atlantic Wall on the coast of Normandy had been breached. The Allies, at a cost of 9,500 casualties.
A turning point in the war in Europe