1. WWII BEGINS
IN EUROPE
•SEPT. 1, 1939, GERMANY
INVADES POLAND…..
•THIS BEGINS WWII…
•GREAT BRITAIN AND
FRANCE DECLARE WAR
ON GERMANY!

2. ALLIES AXIS
THE BIG THREE
WINSTON CHURCHILL—Great
Britain BENITO MUSSOLINI
ADOLF HITLER
FDR---U.S.
HIDEKI TOJO
JOSEPH STALIN---Soviet

3. Big Three
•Winston Churchill
Joseph Stalin & FDR
•Relationship between
the Big Three was
“shaky” to say the
least…..
•“The enemy of my
enemy, is my friend”

4. •GERMAN MILITARY TACTICS OR
“LIGHTING WAR”
•The key to blitzkrieg is … SURPRISE!
•It is designed to attack many different
targets with overwhelming numbers so
as to simply devastate the enemy.

5. •If Hitler had to fight the British and French he did not want to
fight the Soviets, too.
•Hitler and Stalin sign a non-aggression pact and divide
Poland.

6. •Hitler crushes France in June 1940
•Hitler’s last enemy was Great Britain.
•Hitler wanted to gain air supremacy.
•Battle of Britain, largest air battle ever fought
in the history of warfare.
•July to November 1940 and was won by the
Royal Air Force (RAF or British Air Force).
•****First major German loss in WWII and
forced Hitler to change his strategy
•British people fought for their country and a
possible Nazi invasion (Operation Sea Lion).

7. Now Britain Is All Alone!
•Winston
Churchill, the
Prime
Minister of
Great Britain.
•The “Lion of
England”

11. •Cartoonist shows
how Hitler walked
through Europe
unopposed.
•Hitler’s
“blitzkrieg”
military tactics
made his armies
near impossible to
stop.

12. The goal of the Axis
Powers was to rule
the world…..
The world would
“rotate” around them.
The Axis believed
democratic nations
were weak. (United
States and Great
Britian)
And they would
conquer them as a
“knife slices through
butter”.

15. • U.S. declares neutrality at onset
• Neutrality Act 1939
• warring nations buy weapons
from US if paid cash and carried
on own ships
• Lend-Lease Act
• US lend or lease arms to nations
considered vital to US defense

16. •Americans wanted to
remain neutral.
•America First
Committee
•Committee to Defend
America by Aiding the
Allies
•Feb. 21, 1940: If Germany
is defeating England &
France, should the U.S.
declare war on Germany and
send our Army and Navy to
Europe to fight against
Hitler?
Yes: 23% No 77%

17. • Export Control Act
• FDR power to restrict sale of strategic
war materials
• FDR threatens to freeze Japanese
assets in US and reduce amount of
oil shipped to Japan
• Japan responds
• attack on Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, 1941

18. •Pearl Harbor, on the Island of
O'ahu, Hawaii, (then a territory of
the United States) was attacked
by the Japanese Imperial Navy, at
approximately 8:00 A.M., Sunday
morning,
•December 7, 1941.
Admiral Isoroku
Yamamoto
•The surprise attack had been
conceived by Admiral Isoroku
Yamamoto.
•The striking force of 353
Japanese aircraft was led by
Commander Mitsuo Fuchida.
•There had been no formal
Captain Mitsuo
Fuchida
declaration of war.

19. Approximately 100 ships of the U.S. Navy were present that
morning, consisting of battleships, destroyers, cruisers and
various support ships.
**USS Arizona (BB39) Battleship
USS West Virginia (BB48) Battleship
USS California (BB44) Battleship
USS Oklahoma (BB37) Battleship
USS Nevada (BB36) Battleship
USS Pennsylvania (BB38) Battleship
USS Tennessee (BB43) Battleship
USS Maryland (BB46) Battleship
USS Vestal (AR4) Repair ship
USS Neosho (AO23) Oiler
USS Detroit (CL8) Light cruiser
USS Raleigh (CL7) Light cruiser
USS Utah (AG16) Target Ship
USS Tangier (AV8) Seaplane Tender

23. •After FDR’s Day
of Infamy speech
asking for a
declaration of
war against
Japan, Congress
approved the
declaration….
•FDR signed the
declaration of
war against
Japan on Dec.
8, 1941 (Day after
attack)

25. • Country challenged to convert to war-time
production
• cost-plus contracts – company paid cost of
manufacturing plus guaranteed profit
• automobile factories best suited for
producing war-time equipment
(jeeps,tanks, artillery, rifles, etc.)
• produced 1/3 military equipment during war

26. • the entire nation contributed to efforts
• rationing of certain products
• recycling any product that could be used
• women went to work in factories
• Rosie the Riveter symbolized their
efforts

32. Rosie the
Riveter
•Women manned
the factories
while the men
went off to fight.
•This helped lay
the foundation for
women’s rights in
the work world
and helped us win
the war…..

33. • War Dept. given authority to declare any part of
U.S. a military zone and remove anyone
from zone
• West Coast declared military zone
• all people of Japanese ancestry placed into
internment camps

45. •1944 Supreme •It took more than
Court 40 years later
case, Korematsu before the U.S.
vs. U.S., affirmed admitted fault and
began to make
the
$20,000
constitutionality reparations to
of this terrible camp survivors
act.

53.  D-Day, the decision day or H-day…Stalin’s 2nd front….Largest
military invasion in world history to defeat Hitler.
 The 5000-vessel armada stretched as far as the eye could
see, transporting over 150,000 men and nearly 30,000
vehicles across the channel to the French beaches.
 Six parachute regiments -- over 13,000 men -- were flown
from nine British airfields in over 800 planes.
 More than 300 planes dropped 13,000 bombs over coastal
Normandy immediately in advance of the invasion.
 War planners had projected that 5,000 tons of gasoline would
be needed daily for the first 20 days after the initial assault.
 By nightfall on June 6, more than 9,000 Allied soldiers were
dead or wounded, but more than 100,000 had made it ashore,
securing French coastal villages.
 Within weeks, supplies were being unloaded at UTAH and
OMAHA beachheads at the rate of over 20,000 tons per day.

55. Gen. Eisenhower Gives the Orders for
D-Day [“Operation Overlord”]
US General Dwight Eisenhower was chosen by the Big 3 at the
Tehran Conference (Nov. 28-Dec. 1, 1943) as the Supreme Allied
Commander and was responsible for the D-Day Invasion.

60. Normandy Beach today

62. Battle_of_Bulge

64. FDR dies in Mussolini is Hitler realizing that
Berlin was about to
Warm Springs, executed by his
fall, married his
Georgia on April own people on mistress, Eva Braun
12, 1945 April 28, 1945 and both commit
suicide on April
30, 1945.

65. A saddened
nation mourns
the passing of
their President….
April 12, 1945

66. •President Franklin
Roosevelt was in Warm
Springs, Georgia when
he passed away on April
12, 1945.
•Vice President Truman
was in Washington, DC
when the news of his
death arrived.
•Truman was quickly
sworn as President.

67. Iwo_Jima_Okinawa

69. TURNING
POINT
BATTLES
1944
•Battle of Leyete
Gulf, recaptured the
Philippines
1945
•Iwo Jima and
Okinawa
•Put the US 500 miles
from mainland Japan
•Began bombing
mainland Japan

71. A joint Allied Project consisting of
Canadian, British and U.S. scientists to
build an atomic bomb.
Started in 1940…..
By July 1945, 3 bombs had been built.
1 bomb = 20,000 tons of TNT
One would be set off in New Mexico
successfully.

72. Arguments for use Arguments opposed
 Japanese refused to  Atomic bombs were untested
surrender. and their destruction
unknown
 Estimated an invasion
similar to D-Day was needed  Hiroshima and Nagasaki
to end war. were not major military
targets.
 Estimated Japan’s empire
would last 2 years. Those killed in the attacks
would be Japanese civilians.
 Estimated Allied casualties Radiation poisoning would
at 1 million or more men 
have negative effects on the
with huge Japanese losses. population.
 Japanese leadership was Nuclear weapons would set
told of the destructive 
a precedent that using
power of the bomb weapons of mass
Offered a period to destruction was allowable in

war
surrender but declined.

73. Sample of Japanese leaflet dropped by US warning the Japanese
people the destructive power the bomb and to evacuate the cities.

74. Sample of Japanese leaflet dropped by US warning the Japanese
people the bomb and the translation in English
which has enslaveddays the military
In the next few the Japanese people.
The peace which America will the cities
installations in some or all of bring will
free the on the photograph will destroyed
named people from the oppression of the
military clique and mean the cities contain
by American bombs. These emergence of
military installations and workshops or
a new and better Japan. You can restore
factories which produce military goods.
peace by demanding new and good
The American Air Force, which does not
wish to injurewill end the war. We cannot
leaders who innocent people, now gives
promise that only these cities will be
you warning to evacuate the cities named
among thoseyour lives.but some or notwill
and save attacked, America is all
fighting the Japanese people But is
be, so heed this warning and evacuate
fighting these cities clique (govt. leaders)
the military immediately.

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

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

79. Japanese A-Bomb Survivors

80. Japan_Surrenders