1. World War II

2. Early Nazi Conquests

3. Animated Map of European Theater

4. Pearl Harbor

5. The Atlantic Charter No territorial gains for US or Great Britain
All territorial transfers had to take into account rights of self determination
General reduction of tariffs
Global attempt at economic and social progress
Work towards a world free from fear and want
Freedom of the seas
Disarming of aggressor nations and a general draw down of military spending

6. The Battle of Stalingrad
German casualties: 841,000 dead, missing or wounded
Soviet casualties: 1,129,619 dead, missing or wounded, including civilians

7. The War in the Mediterranean

8. Normandy Invasion

9. Normandy Invasion

10. Normandy Campaign
Hedgerow lanes

11. Operation Market Garden

12. The Battle of the Bulge

13. The Holocaust 5.9M Jews 2-3M Soviet POWs 1.8-2M Poles
220K-1.5M Roma (gypsies)
K disabled
80K Freemasons
20-25K Slovenes
5-15K homosexuals
2.5-5K Jehovah’s Witnesses

14. The Early War in the Pacific

15. Coral Sea

16. Midway

17. Island Hopping

18. Iwo Jima and Okinawa

19. The Endgame against Japan
Estimates varied on American casualties. Between 400,000 to 1,200,000
The desire to bring Soviet help into the war led to concessions at Yalta
Japanese resistance on Okinawa had been very fierce and the assumption was that it would be fiercer in Japan

20. Bombing toll against Japan
Firebombing of Tokyo (3/45): 100,000 dead
By 6/45, 40% of the area of Japan’s six largest cities (Tokyo, Nagoya, Kobe, Osaka, Yokohama and Kawasaki) had been leveled.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki were chosen because they hadn’t been extensively fire-bombed yet.
Hiroshima: 140,000 dead by the end of the year
Nagasaki: 80,000 dead by the end of the year