WORLD WAR II Power Point for Ms Spaulding

8/6/2019 WORLD WAR II Power Point for Ms Spaulding

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Japanese expansion in AsiaFascist movements in EuropeGermany withdrew from The League ofNations1935 Mussolini attacked EthiopiaFascism gained support in Spain and causedcivil war. Japan invades China Japanese invasion of the Soviet Union andMongolia


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The invasion was September 1 st 1939Attack was quick and without warning

Poland land was split between Germany andthe Soviet UnionSoviet territory annexed by Germany


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H itler soon invaded Denmark and Norway onApril 4 th 1940.This was important because the Germansneeded access to Swedish iron ore, which was

very important for the Germanarmaments industry because It

allowed for them to producemore weapons.


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O n May 10 TH 1940 H itler launched attacks onH olland and Belgium followed by France onmay 12 th Paris was captured on June 14 th .H itlers army captured more land thanGermany captured in all of world war 1.Using Blitzkrieg tactics H itlers victories were

very fastH e reached the English channel in six days ofhis attack and this left only Dunkirk in Brittishhands.


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Britain now was alone in a fight against Germany.Battle of Britain began July 1940, this was the firsttime that Nazi Germany had failed to claim a

territory.There was strongResistance fromthe air whichproved vital inthe defense ofBritian


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The introduction of Italy into the war led toConflict in the Balkans, Mediterranean andNorth AfricaMussolini did not win many battles and soonlost these territories.Mussolinis losses brought H itler into both

North Africa and the BalkansThese campaigns were a severe setback forallies costing them both time and money


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H itler turned on Russia and O perationBarbarossa was his attack on their soil in 3directions North towards Leningrad, in thecenter towards Moscow and in the southtowards Ukraine.The operation

started on June 22nd

1941.


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In 1942 Britain decided to attack northernAfricaRommels forces were defeated in O ctober of1942Important Because:

- Prevented Egypt and Suez canal from falling to

H itler- Gave Allies experience in large scale seaborne

offensives- It provided a launching point for the next target

of the allies: Italy


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The invasion of France was codenamedO peration O verlord326,000 British, American and Canadian troopson an 80 kilometer stretch of land in NormandyD-Day June 6 th 1944Led to fall of Germany in the hands of Allied

forces on May 7th

1945.The Russians were the first to arrive in Berlin in1945 followed by other allied troops.


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The allies attacked Italy on July 10 th 1943 andwithin 6 weeks they captured Sicily. thiscaused the downfall of Mussolini, who wasdismissed by the Italian kingIn O ctober the rest of Italy was capturedMussolinis successor, Marshal Pietro Badoglio,

signed an armistice that joined Italy with thealliesRome was captured June 1944 and northernItaly came under allied control in April 1945


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Attack took place December 7 th 1941Seven of eight battleships were sunk or damaged2,403 Americans died during attack Japan lost 55 men Japan attacked because they wanted to neutralize Americanpower in the western Pacific Japan attacked Guam, H ong Kong, Malaya, Midway Island thePhilippines, and Wake Island the same day.


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U.S. declared war on Japan after the attacks onpearl harbor followed by Germany declaringwar on The U.S.

Japan Then sunk British Ships in Singapore andinvaded Burma. Japanese troops then invaded the dutch eastindies on January 6 th 1942

By mid 1942 Japanese successfully captured theDutch East Indies, The Philippians and BurmaThey labeled this vast Empire the Greater EastIndia Co-Prosperity Sphere.


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April 1942 American planes bombed TokyoIn May the U.S. Navy defeated Japanese fleet inthe Coral Sea

Ended Japanese plans to conquer AustraliaDuring Battle of Midway Japan lost 4 of its 6aircraft carriersDid not have enough industry to replace themPacific O cean aircraft carriers held key tovictory Japan faced long hopeless war.


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August 6 th 1945 the U.S. dropped atomic bomb on H iroshima.Killed 80,000 people instantlyAnother atomic bomb destroyed NagasakiAugust 14 th Japan offered to surrenderSeptember 1945 Japans leaders officially surrendered


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Winston ChurchillFranklin D. Roosevelt Joseph StalinAdolf H itlerBenito MussoliniEmperor H irohito


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ALLIES AXISSoviet UnionU.S.British EmpireChinaFrancePolandCanadaAustraliaNew Zealand

South AfricaYugoslaviaNetherlandsBelgiumGreece

Germany Japan

ItalyH ungaryRomaniaBulgaria


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TanksAircraftBattleshipsSubmarinesKamikaze Pilots

-would attempt to crash aircraft into enemy shipsMachine Guns

- MG42 Machine Gun H itlers Buzz Saw


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Nazi program to kill people they considered undesirable.6 million Jews perished Jews, Polish Catholics, H omosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses,Disabled, Mentally Ill, Gypsies, Communists, Socialists werepersecutedPeople sent to ghettos, concentration and execution camps .


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Germany was defeated Nazis brought down Japan in ruins from bombingEngland also in ruins. Economy depended onrecovery aid from the U.S.U.S. and Soviet Union became super powersU.S. economy stimulated by the war

Depression came to an endTechnological progress made


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I did all everything and added a slide calledwar in the east that summarizes whatt happensbetween pearl harbor and midway

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