Download - US History: World War II
SEPTEMBER 1 , 1939 TO SEPTEMBER 2 , 1945
World War Two
World War Two Begins
Leaders Come to Power
Nazi Germany: Adolf Hitler
Communist Soviet Union: Joseph Stalin
Fascist Italy: Benito Mussolini
Imperialist Japan: Emperor Showa Hirohito
United States Sticks with Isolationism
Hitler Begins His Expansion
1936 annex Rhineland
1938 annex Austria
1938 seize Sudetenland
1939 seize Czechoslovakia
Hitler’s Next Goal: Poland
Left: Germany signs a non-aggression pact with the Soviet Union
Above: After the signing, Hitler launches a blitzkrieg on Warsaw, Poland
Axis Powers Allied Powers
The Powers Align
Nazi Germany
Fascist Italy
Imperialist Japan
First only Great Britain
and France
Later the
Soviet Union, the
United States,
China, and 45 other countries
Above: Babe Ruth’s Draft Card
FDR Chooses Neutrality
Supply aid to Great Britain
Set up a military draft even though not at war
FDR runs for a 3rd term
Attack on Pearl HarborDecember 7, 1941
“A date that will live in infamy”
Changes on the Home front
Below: Mass production of airplanes Right: Rationing was considered a patriotic duty
Above: “Rosie” went to work
Above: A Japanese-ancestry internment camp in California
Internment of Japanese Americans
Above: A family of Japanese-ancestry marked and ready to be moved into an internment camp
Below: An example of the suspicion of Americans towards those of Japanese ancestry
Battle at Stalingrad in the Soviet Union
Battle at Kursk in the Soviet Union
War in the Atlantic
The Nazis break their non-aggression pact with the Soviets and attack Stalingrad Stalingrad would be right about
here (today it is called Volgograd)
Battle of Normandy in France (aka D-Day)
Battle of the Bulge in the Ardennes Forest of
Belgium
War in the Atlantic
FDR runs for a 4th term
Above: FDR’s last vice-president, Harry Truman
Top Right: last meeting of Allies Winston Churchill of Great Britain, Franklin D. Roosevelt of the US, and
Joseph Stalin of the Soviet Union before FDR’s death
Bottom Right: Military men reading of FDR’s death
V-E Day: Victory in EuropeMay 8, 1945
Atrocities of the Holocaust Revealed
6 million Jews murdered6 million Poles, Slaves, and Gypsies
murdered
Battle at Midway Islands in the Pacific
Battle at Iwo Jima a Japanese-owned Island
War in the Pacific
Battle at Okinawa a Japanese-owned island
War in the Pacific
The Japanese Surrender
July 1945: Allies meet in Potsdam , Germany
August 6, 1945: Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan
August 9, 1945: Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan
August 14, 1945: Emperor Hirohito announces surrender
V-J Day: Victory in JapanSeptember 2, 1945
Right: Emperor Hirohito
signing the official
surrender to General Douglas
MacArthur
Far Right: Photo taken
in Times Square, NYC
on August 14, 1945 by
Alfred Eisenstaedt
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