WORLD WAR II(SEP. 1ST 1939-SEP. 2ND 1945)

1st term P3 project

By Timothy L.

INTRODUCTION

+ World war 2 is a war that involves most of the world’s nations. WW2(world war 2) lasted from 1939 to 1945. During the war, nations formed 2 military alliances which are the Allies and the Axis. WW2 was the most widespread war in the history and the deadliest human conflict in the history. During the war, over 73 million people died in the war. Think about this, over 40 thousand people died in one day!!

HOW DID IT HAPPENED?

+ The war started by the first invasion of Poland by Germany and Slovakia in 1939. Since France is an alliance nation to France, the French sent their army to Poland and fought with the Polish. Next, Germany, Italy an Japan formed the Axis which they started to invade the countries around them. As the war spread around the global, other nations formed the Allies such as UK, France, Poland, Canada, US, Netherland…..et

COUNTRIES INVOLVED(MOST WARS INVOLVED)Allies

Soviet Union (1941-45) United States (1941-45) United Kingdom China (at war 1937-45) France (1939-40, 1944-45) Free France (1940-44) Poland Canada Australia New ZealandSouth Africa Yugoslavia (1941-45) Belgium (1940-45) Netherlands (1940-45) Greece (1940-45) Norway (1940-45)

Axis and Axis-aligned Germany Japan (at war 1937-45) Italy (1940-43) Romania (1941-44) Hungary (1940-45) Finland (1941-44) Bulgaria (1941-44) Iraq (1941) Thailand (1941-45)and others

LEADERS OF THE NATIONS(ALLIES)

Soviet Union Joseph Stalin

Kingdom of Greece George II of Greece (King)

US Franklin D. Roosevelt

Empire of Ethiopia Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia

UK Winston Churchill

Kingdom of Norway Haakon VII of Norway (King)

Republic of China Chiang Kai-shek

French 3rd Republic Albert Lebrun

Czechoslovakia Edvard Benes

LEADERS OF THE NATIONS(AXIS)

Greater German Reich Adolf Hitler

Empire of Japan Hirohito (emperor of Japan)

Kingdom of Italy(1940-43) Victor Emmanuel III of Italy

Italian Social Republic(1943-45)

Kingdom of Romania Ion Antonescu

Kingdom of Bulgaria Boris III (1918-1947)

Republic of Finland Risto Ryti

Kingdom of Thailand Thai Plaek Pibulsongkram

Kingdom of Bulgaria Miklos Horthy

WEAPONS DEVELOPED DURING WW2

+ During the war there are tones of deadliest weapons developed during that time. Some of them are nucleus bombs, AK-49 machine gun, MP 44 rifle, Carcano M1891 shot gun…and tones more. Some scientists during that time, are arrested to the army campaign to invent even stronger, powerful weapons for their country like Fritz Haber is one of them. He was forced to make bombs because the major chemical of making bomb is nitre stone, but the German nitre stone transport track was blocked by the Allies, so he used Ammonia synthesis to replace nitre stone.

GERMAN WEAPONSPistols and handguns

Walter PPKLuger P08

•Mauser Karabiner 98 Kurz

Rifles

Machine Gun

Maschinengewehr 1942 (MG 42)

Maschinengewehr 1934 (MG 34)

Anti-tank weaponsRaketenpanzerbüchse "Panzerschreck

Hand Grenade •Model 43

Stielhandgranate Offensive Hand Grenade

AMERICAN WEAPONS

Pistols and Handguns

M1917 Revolver Colt M1911/A1

Rifles

•M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle

•M1 Carbine

Machine Guns

Browning M1919 Medium Machine Gun

Browning M2 Heavy Machine Gun

Anti-Tank Weapon

M1/A1 "Bazooka"

ITALIAN WW2 WEAPONSHandguns & Pistols

Beretta Modello 1934 Glisenti M1910

•Beretta Modello 1935

Carcano M1891

Rifles

Carcano M1938 Carbine

Carcano M1891 Moschetto da Cavelleria

Breda Modell 30 Breda Modello 1937Fiat-Revelli Modello 1935

Machine Guns

JAPANESE WW2 WEAPONS

Pistols and handguns

Nambu Type 14

Rifles

Type 38 RifleType 38 Rifle

Type 38 Cavalry Rifle

Machine Guns

Type 11 Light Machine Gun

Type 3 Heavy Machine Gun

Flamethrower

Type 100Type 93

SOVIET UNION WW2 WEAPONS

Handguns, Pistols Rifles

Tokarev TT-33 Nagant M1895Tokarev SVT-40

Mosin-Nagant M1891/30, M1938, M1944

Anti-tank weapons

PTRS-41

Submachine Gun

PPD 40

Machine Guns

DShK 1938 Heavy Machine Gun

BATTLE OF BRITAIN

The Battle of Britain took place between August and September 1940. After the success of Blitzkrieg, the evacuation of Dunkirk and the surrender of France, Britain was by herself. The Battle of Britain remains one of the most famous battles of World War Two. The German needed to control the English channel so the Britain Navy can’t land on Sussex and Kent beaches. To control the channel, German needed to use the air force. As a month had passed, the British finally defeated Germany and saved the channel.

TIMELINE OF BATTLE OF BRITAIN1940August 1st Hitler decreed the Battle of Britain with the command "The German Air Force is to

overcome the British Air Force with all means at its disposal, and as soon as possible."

August 13th "Eagle Day". The Luftwaffe launched its offensive against Britain, with 1,485 sorties. The Germans lost 45 'planes and the RAF 13.

August 15th A day of intense attacks. The Luftwaffe launched a total of 1,790 sorties and lose 75 'planes. The RAF lost 34.

August 17th The Germans established an 'operational area' around Britain. In it, any ship was to be sunk without warning.

August 25th The RAF launched its first raid on Berlin.

September 7th Some 300 German bombers, escorted by 600 fighters, attack London.

September 15th The RAF claimed to have shot down 183 German 'planes - a figure later found to be inflated.

September 17th Hitler postponed "Operation Sealion" until further notice.

October 12th "Operation Sealion" postponed until 1941.

BATTLE OF ARDENNES (1944)

+ The Ardennes Offensive, popularly known as the Battle of the Bulge, was the last major German offensive on the Western Front in World War 2. After the failure of Operation Market Garden, the Canadian 1st Army was finally supplied and moved forward, clearing the Westerschelde and opening Antwerp to shipping. This stabilized the lines once again, this time some 125km to the north of where they had been in early September, and the terrible supply problems the Allies had been having started to ease. At about this time the massive Soviet summer 1944 offensive burnt itself out in eastern Poland, and the war paused. Taking advantage of this, Hitler called for ideas to re-open the front in the west. Several ideas were submitted, two rising to the top. But Hitler was wrong, the act that the Soviet Union burned itself in Poland was just a fake act so Germany will slack their warn of Soviet Union Army. As Germany attacks the front west, Soviet Union send out 54 jet bombers Tupolev SB-2 to attack the German tank troop. And on January 27, 1945, the battle officially ended

ADOLF HITLER

+ Adolf Hitler is the leader of Germany throughout the war. During the war, he claims that the Germanic people are the highest quality nation and tribe, so he claims that the Germans can’t live with the dirty Jewish. During the war, Hitler’s army killed over 6,000,000 Jewish and other tribes that they think it’s dirty and “have” lower reaches of quality. This thing is a history that all the people will remember and never be forgotten the pain people are suffering….

CREDITS

+ www.canada.gov+ www.worldwar2.com/info + http://

tw.image.search.yahoo.com/search/images?p=flanders+field&fr=yfp&ei=utf-8&js=1&x=wrt

+ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II+ www.worldwar-2.net+ www.freefoto.com

WE WILL REMEMBER THE ONES WHO FOUGHT FOR PEACE…