1. World War II (1941-1945)

2. Players

3. Axis Expansion: Japan, Germany, Italy

4. Axis Powers 1942

5. 1933 Hitler elected Chancellor of Germany 1939 Germany invades Poland; Italy invades Albania 1939 Britain, France, Australia, New Zealand declare war on Germany 1940 Italy joins Germany 1941 US & Britain declare war on Japan Germany declares war on US 1942 Air Attack on Germany 1943-44 Allied push into North Africa & Sicily Sept 1943 Italy surrenders June 1944 D-Day at Normandy May 1945 VE German surrenders Aug 1945 A-Bombs dropped on Japan Sept 1945 VJ Japan surrenders

6. Japanese Holdings

7. Allied Pacific Plan

8. Guadalcanal

9. Burials in Pacific

10. Marine Equipment

11. Peleliu

13. 6 0 M M M o rt a r

14. Marine Artists Peleliu Night The Stare

15. Marine 1 st Division Patch

16. Humor in the Military

17. Bill Mauldin Stars & Stripes “I already got a Purple Heart. Just give me some aspirin!”

18. WWII Toll Total Deaths % Prewar Pop US 500,000.4 France 810,000 1.9 Germany 6,805,000 9.5 Russia 20,000,000 10.4% Overall dead: 52,199,262