World War II

By: Victor Quach Kimberly To

Danny Siu Luis Martinez

World War II Overview•One of the deadliest wars in history

•Included: Germany, Italy, Japan (Axis); USA, Britain, USSR (Allies)

•Started with invasion of Poland (1939)

•Japanese attacks on British colonies and the U.S.

• Germany’s invasion of the USSR

•Hitler’s Blitzkrieg

• Beginning of atomic bombs

•Victory for Allies in 1945

Cause of WWII

• Axis Powers wanted more land

• Hitler wanted Sudentenland and was allowed to because of appeasement

• Wanted the rest of Czechoslovakia

• Hitler agreed with Stalin to split Poland

Cause of WWII

The Invasion of Poland

•Hitler used blitzkrieg

•Captured Warsaw, the capital

•Hitler annexes Western Poland; USSR annexes Eastern Poland

•After, Germany successfully defeated French

Battle of Britain• Britain was all alone after French

lost• Two advantages: radar and

enigma• Successfully stopped Germany

Pearl Harbor• Japan attacked

Oahu, Hawaii-December 7, 1941

• USA suffered severe damages– Majority of fleets

destroyed• US declared war

on Japan• After, Germany

declared war on the USA

Battle of Midway

• Six months after the attack on Pearl Harbor

• U.S. Pacific Fleet defeated the Imperial Japanese Navy

• Lasted four days ( June 4th -7th 1942)

• The U.S. ended the Japanese advances in the Pacific

• Called the “turning point of the Pacific”

Stalingrad

• June 22, 1941-German troops successfully attacked Stalingrad

• Russians suffered terrible losses• Winter season arrived

–Germans not prepared

D-Day

• Led by General Dwight Eisenhower

• Invasion of Normandy, France• Same time as Russian attack

from East• Germany surrendered on May 7,

1945

Hiroshima and Nagasaki• Japanese fought after

Germany surrendered• USA bombed Hiroshima

and then Nagasaki• Tens of thousands died• Japan surrendered a

month later in September, 1945

The Holocaust

• Hitler tried to get rid of Jews• Jews captured and forced into concentration

camps• Millions of Jews were killed• Nazis killed other races also, such as Gypsies

Effects of War

• Nazi officials were tried for crimes• Hitler and Mussolini (Italy) were killed• Germany was divided• Japan became under military rule• US and the USSR became the world-

super powers• Britain’s economy weakened

Casualties

Nation Military Losses

Russia 7,000,000Germany 3,500,000

Japan 1,300,000Britain 350,000United States

300,000**less than four million European Jews survived