The SECOND WORLD WAR

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The SECOND WORLD WAR

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Asias Second World War

• 1931 JAPAN occupies Manchuria
• 1937 JAPAN ATTACKS CHINA

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1939 GERMAN ATTACKS POLAND

• Hitler shocked by Allied declaration of war
• Ferocity of Polish Resistance
• USSR invades Poland

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1939 The Destruction of Poland

• USSR annexes Eastern Poland Poles expelled into
  German Poland, or to Siberia
• GERMANY SYSTEMATICALLY DESTROYS POLAND (1)
  Leaders arrested shot (2) Jewish Poles to
  camps (3) Polish property to Germans

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1940 THE WINTER WAR

• USSR attacks Finland

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1940 GERMANY CONQUERS THE WEST
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1940 THE DEFEAT OF FRANCE

• Luxemburg
• Netherlands
• Belgium
• FRANCE

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1940 OCCUPIED FRANCE VICHY FRANCE

• France DIVIDED
• N. France occupied by Germans
• S. France is independent ally of Germany
  VICHY FRANCE Marshal Pétain

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1940 BATTLE OF BRITAIN
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St. Pauls Cathedral, London, during German
Bombing
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Royal Air Force (RAF) Spitfires BATTLE OF
BRITAIN (1940) IS THE FIRST BATTLE EVER FOUGHT
ENTIRELY IN THE AIR
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1941 THE AFRICAN CAMPAIGN
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British troops in North Africa, led by Field
Marshal Montgomery
The German Afrika Korps, led by Field Marshal
Rommel
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1941 Germany attacks Greece Yugoslavia
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1941 GERMANY INVADES USSR
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1941 HOLOCAUST
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1941 Hitler orders mass killings of Jews in
USSR later Jews others are transported to
killing centers
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Europe, at the height of Hitlers power
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1941 JAPAN ATTACKS U.S. AT PEARL HARBOR GERMANY
DECLARES WAR ON U.S.
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1942 BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC
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1942 AIR WAR AGAINST GERMANY BEGINS
Cologne
Hamburg
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1942 BRITISH DEFEAT GERMANS AT EL ALAMEIN
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1942 ALLIES INVADE NORTH AFRICA
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1942-43 STALINGRAD
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1943 ALLIES INVADE ITALY
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1944 D-DAY ALLIES INVADE FRANCE
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1944 Resistance

• From the beginning, in Occupied Europe, bands of
  people opposed the Nazi occupiers
• Spying for Britain or the USSR Sabotage
  Partisan warfare
• The Nazis responded with ferocious repression

By 1944, many had begun to wage guerrilla warfare
against the Nazis
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French Resistance cell
JEAN MOULIN, leader of the French Resistance,
executed by the Nazis
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Resistance

• TWICE Warsaw rebelled
• 1943 Jewish Poles rebel rather than be shipped
  to the concentration camps
• 1944 Polish Resistance rebels

Jewish Resistance in Warsaw
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There was a small, but very active, German
Resistance
1944 German Officers attempt to assassinate
Hitler fails
CLAUS VON STAUFFENBERG
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1944 The HOLOCAUST is at its height
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1944 GERMANS LAUNCH MIRACLE WEAPONS AGAINST
BRITAIN
LONG RANGE, PILOT-LESS ROCKETS
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1944 ALLIED ROUND THE CLOCK BOMBING OF GERMANY
BERLIN, 1945
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1944 BATTLE OF THE BULGE LAST GERMAN
COUNTER-ATTACK
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1945 SOVIETS OCCUPY ALL OF EASTERN EUROPE
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1945 SOVIETS, ALLIES, ATTACK GERMANY
Berlin, 1945
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1945 HITLER COMMITS SUICIDE GERMANY SURRENDERS
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WARSAW, 1945