World War II (1941-1945)

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World War II (1941-1945)
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Players
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Axis Expansion Japan, Germany, Italy areas of
occupation in red (map)
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Axis Powers 1942 Areas of occupation in red.
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Chronology

• 1933 Hitler elected Chancellor of Germany
• 1939 Germany invades Poland Italy invades
  Albania
• 1939 Britain, France, Australia, New Zealand
  declare war on Germany
• 1940 Italy joins Germany
• 1941 US Britain declare war on JapanGermany
  declares war on US
• 1942 Air Attack on Germany
• 1943-44 Allied push into North Africa Sicily
• Sept 1943 Italy surrenders
• June 1944 D-Day at Normandy
• May 1945 VE German surrenders
• Aug 1945 A-Bombs dropped on Japan
• Sept 1945 VJ Japan surrenders

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Japanese Holdings in Pacific from Korea south
to Dutch East Indies, approaching Australia
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Allied Pacific Plan was to begin at the
southernmost extension of Japanese holdings and
push north. Southernmost point was the Solomon
Islands where its airstrip made Guadalcanal most
significant.
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Guadalcanal photos
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Burials in Pacific were many in 1942
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Axis Powers 1942 note the expansion of German
to the south and east.
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Stalingrad, a Russian city on river Volga
Important for trade and communication, for
shipping resources to the north. Also, it was
named after Stalin, and its capture would have
beem a blow to Russian morale.
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Eastern Front in September notice the movement
of German attacks to the east at all points
Latvia, Belorussia, and Ukraine, down to the
Black Sea and Crimean.
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Attack on Stalingrad arrows mark the line of
Germanys attack on the city.
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German fighting into (left map) and surrounded
out of (right map) Stalingrad.

Arrows above mark the attacks of the Russian
counter-offensive movements in the south and
around Stalingrad.
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WWII Toll (Europe)

• Total Deaths Prewar Pop
• US 500,000 .4
• France 810,000 1.9
• Germany 6,805,000 9.5
• Russia 20,000,000 10.4
  Overall dead 52,199,262