WW2

WHO? AXIS

• Adolf Hitler
• Emperor Hirohito
• Benito Mussolini

WHO? ALLIES

• Winston Churchill
• FDR
• Stalin

COUNTRIES INVOLVED AXIS

• Germany
• Italy
• Japan

COUNTRIES INVOLVED ALLIES

• USA
• UK
• USSR
• France
• Poland
• Canada
• Australia
• Philippines
• Republic of Chana
• Ect.

WHERE?

• Euroupe
• Africa
• Pacific
• East Asia
• South east Asia
• Western Asia

WHEN?

• 1939-1945

HOLOCAUST

• The Holocaust was a extermination plan against the Jews during WW2
• Roughly around 6 million Jews were killed during the Holocaust

DUNKIRK

• Dunkirk was the great evacuation of British and other troops. From mainland Europe during the early stages of WW2.

INVASION

• Germany invaded Poland on the first of September 1939 to October sixth 1939

OPERATION BARBAROSSA

• Operation Barbarossa was Hitler’s great invasion of Russia and was the biggest mistake of his life. The Germans used their same blitzkreig tactics while the Red army just ran and used scorched Earth tactics.

PEARL HARBOR

• The attack against Pearl Harbor was a militaristic short term victory against the Americans however was the defining attack that brought the United States to join WW2.

BATTLE OF MIDWAY

• The battle of midway was the turning point of the Pacific war, and one of the divisive defeats of the Japanese imperial Navy.

ISLAND HOPPING CAMPAIGN

• Island hopping is a strategy that Americans used in the pacific war in where they would take all heavily fortified islands that led up to Japan.

D-DAY

• D-day the day were the the liberation of Europe from Germany

VE-DAY

• VE-day is the day celebrating the formal acceptance by the allies in WW2 of Germany’s defeat.

BLITZKRIEG

• Blitzkrieg is a type of lighting warfare in which motorized infantry tanks were primarily in a short and fast space of time.

MANHATTAN PROJECT

• The Manhattan project was the code name for the first nuclear bombs made
• The bombs were called fat man and little boy

WEAPONS

• The weapons of WW2 are
• Rifles
• Artillery
• Machine guns
• Aircraft carriers
• Nukes

LUFTWAFFE

• The luftwaffe was the German Air Force that primarily had bombers that heavily contributed to the blitz.

LOSS

• 75 million people died in WW2 most of which were civilians
• WW2 cost $4 trillion because of WW2

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