WORLD WAR 2

FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT

• United States president during world war 2
• Created the "new deal" reform
• Lead United States through the Great Depression
• Asked to declare war on Japan after Pearl Harbor

HARRY S. TRUMAN

• President of the United States after Roosevelts death
• Lead United States through the end of world war 2
• Commanded U.S to drop two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan

WINSTON CHURCHILL

• Gave lots of speeches to boost national morale during world war 2
• He led Britain's fight against Nazi Germany in world war 2

JOSEPH STALIN

• Party leader and absolute ruler of the Soviet Union
• Soviet Union helped defeat Hitlers Germany during world war 2

ADOLF HITLER

• Many of Hitlers decisions led to world war 2
• Started world war 2
• Brought the Nazi party to power
• Created concentration camps that killed most Jews
• Leader on Nazi Germany during world war 2

BOMBING OF PEARL HARBOR

• Japanese fighter planes attacked american naval near Honolulu Hawaii
• Japanese destroyed vessels and battleships and airplanes
• Reason America joined world war 2

D-DAY INVASION

• American, British and Canadian forces landed on five beaches on France's Normandy region
• The invasion was one of the biggest military assaults in history
• Required extensive planning

DROPPING OF THE ATOMIC BOMB

• United States is first and only nation to use atomic weaponry during wartime
• Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima and marked the end of world war 2

HOLOCAUST

• An event of mass murder of 6 million European Jews
• Adolf Hitler thought Jews were a threat to German racial purity and community
• Jews were persecuted in concentration camps occupied in Poland

BLITZKRIEG

• Military tactic to designed to create disorganization among enemy forces
• Blitzkrieg was used to invade