4. France Surrenders June, 1940

5. A Divided France Henri Petain

6. The French Resistance The Free French General Charles DeGaulle The Maquis

7. Now Britain Is All Alone!

8. Battle of Britain: The “Blitz”

10. The London “Tube”: Air Raid Shelters during the Blitz

11. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill

13. The Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact, 1939 Foreign Ministers von Ribbentrop & Molotov

14. Operation Barbarossa: Hitler’s Biggest Mistake

16. Operation Barbarossa: June 22, 1941 y 3,000,000 German soldiers. y 3,400 tanks.

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

19. Axis Powers in 1942

20. Battle of Stalingrad: Winter of 1942-1943 German ArmyRussian Army 1,011,500 men1,000,500 men 10,290 artillery guns13,541 artillery guns 675 tanks894 tanks 1,216 planes1,115 planes

22. Gen. Eisenhower Gives the Orders for D-Day [“Operation Overlord”]

23. D-Day (June 6, 1944)

24. Normandy Landing (June 6, 1944 ) Higgins Landing Crafts German Prisoners

25. French Female Collaborators

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

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

28. Hitler Commits Suicide April 30, 1945 The F ü hrer’s Bunker Cyanide & Pistols Mr. & Mrs. Hitler

29. V-E Day (May 8, 1945) General Keitel

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

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36. Japanese Kamikaze Planes: The Scourge of the South Pacific Kamikaze Pilots Suicide Bombers

37. The Manhattan Project: Los Alamos, NM Dr. Robert Oppenheimer I am become death, the shatterer of worlds! Major General Lesley R. Groves

38. Tinian Island, 1945 Little Boy Fat Man Enola Gay Crew

39. Col. Paul Tibbets & the A-Bomb

40. Hiroshima – August 6, 1945 ©70,000 killed immediately. ©48,000 buildings. destroyed. ©100,000s died of radiation poisoning & cancer later.

41. Nagasaki – August 9, 1945 ©40,000 killed immediately. ©60,000 injured. ©100,000s died of radiation poisoning & cancer later.

42. Japanese A-Bomb Survivors

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

44. Japanese POWs, Guam

45. V-J Day in Times Square, NYC

47. WW II Casualties: Europe Each symbol indicates 100,000 dead in the appropriate theater of operations

48. WW II Casualties: Asia Each symbol indicates 100,000 dead in the appropriate theater of operations

49. WW II Casualties Country Men in war Battle deaths Wounded Australia1,000,00026,976180,864 Austria800,000280,000350,117 Belgium625,0008,460 55,513 1 Brazil 2 40,3349434,222 Bulgaria339,7606,67121,878 Canada 1,086,343 7 42,042 7 53,145 China 3 17,250,5211,324,5161,762,006 Czechoslovakia— 6,683 4 8,017 Denmark—4,339— Finland500,00079,04750,000 France—201,568400,000 Germany20,000,000 3,250,000 4 7,250,000 Greece—17,02447,290 Hungary—147,43589,313 India2,393,89132,12164,354 Italy3,100,000 149,496 4 66,716 Japan9,700,0001,270,000140,000 Netherlands280,0006,5002,860 New Zealand 194,000 11,625 4 17,000 Norway75,0002,000— Poland—664,000530,000 Romania 650,000 5 350,000 6 — South Africa 410,0562,473— U.S.S.R.— 6,115,000 4 14,012,000 United Kingdom 5,896,000 357,116 4 369,267 United States 16,112,566291,557670,846 Yugoslavia3,741,000305,000425,000 1.Civilians only. 2.Army and navy figures. 3.Figures cover period July 7, 1937 to Sept. 2, 1945, and concern only Chinese regular troops. They do not include casualties suffered by guerrillas and local military corps. 4.Deaths from all causes. 5.Against Soviet Russia; 385,847 against Nazi Germany. 6.Against Soviet Russia; 169,822 against Nazi Germany. 7.National Defense Ctr., Canadian Forces Hq., Director of History.

50. Massive Human Dislocations

51. The U.S. & the U.S.S.R. Emerged as the Two Superpowers of the later 20 c

52. The Bi-Polarization of Europe: The Beginning of the Cold War

53. The Division of Germany: 1945 - 1990

54. The Creation of the U. N.

55. The Nuremberg War Trials: Crimes Against Humanity

56. The Emergence of Third World Nationalist Movements

57. The De-Colonization of European Empires