WW2 Project

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May 16, 2010Antonio Marshall

When did WW2 occur???

• Ww2 occurred on the 1st of September 1939 when Germany

invaded Poland.

When did WW2 ended

• WW2 ended on September 2nd 1945

What alliances were formed During WW2???

• United states El Salvador• Great Britain Honduras• Australia New Zealand• Canada Poland• China India• Costa Rica Nicaragua• Hattie South Africa• Dominican republicRussia• Netherlands Greece• PanamaBelgium• Luxembourg Norway• Yugoslavia Guatemala• Czechoslovakia

AXIS POWERS• GERMANY

• ITALY• JAPAN

• HUNGARY• ROMANIA• BULGARIA

World leaders during WW2

Winston Churchill

Franklin D.

Roosevelt

Joseph Stalin

Adolf Hitler

TojoMussolini

What was the Nazi Party???

• The Nazi party was founded in 1919 by Adolf Hitler.

• This group was formed on ideas of racial superiority, Territorial suspension and blamed the Jewish people for everything that went wrong in Germany.

What was the holocaust???

• The Holocaust was the murder of six million Jews by the Nazi Germans. The Nazis thought that Germans were racially superior and that the Jews were inferior.

• During the Holocaust, German people also targeted groups because of their racial inferiority

• Gypsies, the disabled, and some of the Slavic people such as Poles, Russians, Communists, Socialists, Jehovah's Witnesses, and homosexuals.

The main battles of WW2

• Battles• Atlantic September 1939 - May 1945• Berlin April 16 - May 2,1945 • Britain July 10 - October 31,1940• Bulge December 16, 1944 - January 25,1945 • El Alamein (First Battle) July 1-27, 1942 • El Alamein (Second Battle) October 23 - November 4,1942 • Guadalcanal Campaign August 7, 1942 - February 9,1943 • Iwo Jima February 19 - March 16,1945 • Kursk July 5 - August 23, 1943

The main battles of WW2 con……• Leningrad (Siege) September 8, 1941 - January 27,1944 • Leyte Gulf October 23-26,1944 Midway June 3-6,1942

Milne Bay August 25 - September 5,1942 • Normandy including D-Day June 6 - August 25,1944 • Okinawa April 1 - June 21,1945 • Operation Barbarossa June 22, 1941 - December 1941 • Operation Torch November 8-10, 1942 • Pearl Harbor December 7, 1941 • Philippine Sea June 19-20, 1944 • Stalingrad August 21, 1942 - February 2, 1943

Main Weapons and vehicles for WW2

• Tanks• Matilda II Tank • M4 Sherman • M5 Stuart • T34• Panzer III • Panzer IV • Panzer V• Panzer VI • SDKFZ 251 Armored

Personnel Carrier

• Aircraft• Chance Vought F4U Corsair• Republic P-47 "Thunderbolt• North American A-36 (Predecessor to P-51)• North American P-51 "Mustang"• Grumman F4F "Wildcat"• North American T6 "Texan" and T6 Flyby• North American A-36• Republic P-47 "Thunderbolt“• Lockheed P-38 "Lightning"• Boeing B-17 "Flying Fortress“• Consolidated B-24 "Liberator"• North American B-25B "Mitchell"• Boeing B-29 "Super Fortress"• Boeing B-29 "Super Fortress"• Northrop P-61 "Black Widow"• Douglas C-47 "Dakota" (Kilroy)• C-47 "Skytrain" Transport• Grumman "Duck"• Missing man formation performed by Grumman

"Cats"• F6F's on snow covered carrier deck.

Ships• Escort

Aircraft Carriers

Weapons• Atomic Cannon

Browning M2HB

• Little boy• Fatman

How did WW2 affect Americas home front???

• The woman started to fil l in the men's jobs as the men went to war.

• There was a baby boom and the woman had to Juggle their home and work l i fe.

• Every one in the family received ration books.

How did WW2 end for all the countries involved???

• WW2 ended with the surrender of the Axis powers. • Germany surrendered on May 7th to the Western Allies,

and May 8th to the Soviet Union, 1945• Japan was able to hold out for another few months.

Atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9. He made a radio address announcing the decision on August 15, 1945. It was signed on Sept. 2, 1945 aboard the battleship A.S.S. Missouri in Tokyo Bay.

• President Truman officially declared an end to hostilities by Presidential Proclamation on December 31, 1946.