WORLD WAR II

- WWII started in 1939 and went until 1945

- America didn’t get involved until 1941

- Axis Powers vs. Allies

• WWII started in ___
• America didn’t get involved until ___
• Axis Powers vs. Allies

- Adolf Hitler

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

- Winston Churchill

- Joseph Stalin

- Started because of
Hitler’s invasion of Poland

- England and France declared war on Germany

- Holocaust
- Bombing of
Pearl Harbor

RESULTS OF THE WAR

• Most destructive conflict in history
• Over 60 million died (about 3% of the 1940 population)
• The Allies won the war
• The U.S. became an economic superpower

REFERENCES

• www.icss.uni.edu/timeline/10people.html
• www.aiweb.cs.washington.edu/research/projects/ai6/xiaoling/random_wiki_page...
• www.historyonthenet.com/world-war-2-timeline-2/
• www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/teachers/modules/ww2/bibliographical_essay.html
• Jars of Hope by Jennifer Roy