World War II

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World War II

• A Brief Overview
• 1939-1945

Bonnie Mussman
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DICTATORS
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1939World War II Began in Europe

• Germany attacked Poland
• September 1, 1939

• Great Britain and France declared war on Germany
• September 3, 1939

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1940America Began to Prepare

• Axis conquest
• Luxembourg
• Belgium
• Netherlands
• Denmark
• Norway
• France
• Selective Service Act was passed in USA

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1941 a date which will live in infamy

• Japan attacked Pearl Harbor
• December 7, 1941
• 2400 died, including 1,102 on the USS Arizona
• US declared war on Japan
• December 8, 1941

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Pearl Harbor Memorial
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1942Operation Torch

• Allies invaded North Africa
• Rommel fled
• 250,000 Axis troops surrendered
• Allied victory

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1943

• Allies invaded Italy

• Victory at Battle of Guadalcanal

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1944Operation Overlord
D-Day Invasion of Normandy June 6,1944

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American Troops Discovered Concentration Camps
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Crematory at Dachau
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1945V-E Day

• Victory in Europe Day
• May 7, 1945
• Germany surrendered
• Americans celebrated

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1945Creation of the A-Bomb

• Manhattan Project
• Hiroshima
• Nagasaki

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1945Formal Surrender

• Japan surrendered to the Allied Powers
• September 2, 1945
• USS Missouri

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1945World War II Ended

• The United States was victorious

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BATTLE DEATHS

• More US soldiers died during World War II than
  the Civil War and World War I combined

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CREDITS AND REFERENCES

• Graphics courtesy of
• www.crystalcafe.com
• Pearl Harbor photographs courtesy of
• Patsy Caulder
• Atomic Bomb drawing courtesy of
• Ryan York
• www.spart5.k12.sc.us/