1. Unit 7:4: World War II The War in Europe

2. Early Growth of Nazi Germany

3. German Invasion of Poland

4. France

5. The Maginot Line
Rhineland

6. Miracle at Dunkirk
English Channel

7. Hitler signing the French armistice of surrender in same place of German signing of Treaty of Versailles

9. Charles de Gaulle Creator of “Free France,” the French Government-in-Exile

10. General de Gaulle Reviewing Troops

11. De Gaulle Speaking on BBC during WWII

12. Great Britain

13. Winston Churchill PM

14. German Luftwaffe

15. Guernica

16. September 1940 – the beginning of the Blitz

17. Evacuation of Children to the Countryside

19. Big Ben

20. King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, now known as “The Queen Mother” r

21. Returning to Daily Life

23. Erwin Rommel

24. The US Enters the War

25. French Indochina (Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos)

26. Dutch East Indies (Indonesia)

27. Hideki Tojo

28. Arial View of Pearl Harbor

29. Franklin Delano Roosevelt President: 1932-1945

30. FDR Asks Congress for Declaration of War

31. The Tide Turns

32. The Battle in N. Africa

33. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890-1969 (later to be Supreme Commander of Allied Forces and President)

34. Erwin Rommel

35. Rommel, “Desert Fox” Studying Maps

37. Allied Invasion of Sicily

39. The Battle of Stalingrad

41. D-Day: Preparing for the Invasion

46. The Invasion
The Invasion

49. Battle of the Bulge December 16, 1944 to January 25, 1945
Over a million men: 500,000 Germans, 600,000 Americans (more than fought at Gettysburg) and 55,000 British.
100,000 German casualties, killed, wounded or captured, 81,000 American casualties, including 23,554 captured and 19,000 killed, and 1,400 British casualties, 200 killed.
800 tanks lost on each side, 1,000 German aircraft

51. V-E Day: May 8, 1945

52. Celebrations in London

54. Churchill and the Royal Family

55. The Holocaust

56. Heinrich Himmler

57. Auschwitz