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WW2 PREZY

Published on Nov 18, 2015

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

WORLD WAR II

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GERMANY

ITALY

JAPAN

FRANCE

BRITAIN

INVASION OF POLAND

AN INVASION OF POLAND BY GERMANY

BLITZKRIEG

IS AN ANGLICIZED WORD DESCRIBING ALL-MOTORISED FORCE

MUNICH PACT

was a settlement permitting Nazi Germany's annexation of Czechoslovakia

NON-AGRESSION PACT

A NATIONAL TREATY BETWEEN TWO OR MORE STATES AGREEING AGAINST WAR

APPEASEMENT

is a diplomatic policy aimed at avoiding war by making concessions to an aggressor

ITALY TAKES OVER ETHIOPIA

It was a brief colonial war that is also remembered in history as the second Italo-Abyssinian war

MAGINOT LINE

was a line of concrete fortifications, tank obstacles, ECT. which France constructed along its borders with Germany and Italy

FALL OF PARIS

was the successful German invasion of France and the Low Countries

BATTLE OF BRITAIN

is the name given to the Second World War air campaign waged by the German Air Force

ATTACK PEARL HARBOR

WAS A SURPRISE MILITARY STRIKE CONDUCTED BY THE IMPERIAL JAPANESE NAVY AGAINST THE UNITED STATES NAVAL BASE AT PEARLHARBOR

BATTLE OF STALINGRAD

BATTLE WERE Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control ofthe city of Stalingrad

D-DAY

(NORMANDY LANDINGS) THE FIRST DAY OF THE INVASION OF NORMANDY

BATTLE OF THE BULGE

WAS A MAJOR GERMAN OFFENSIVE LAUNCH THROUGH THE MOUNTAIN REGION OF WALLONIA IN BELGIUM

HITLER COMMITS SUICIDE

ADOLF HITLER COMMITTED SUICIDE BY GUNSHOT ON 30 APRIL 1945 IN HIS FÜHRERBUNKER IN BERLIN

V-E DAY

WHEN THE WORLD WAR II ALLIES FORMALLY ACCEPTED THE UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER OF THE ARMED FORCES

WWII PART 2

WAR IN PACIFIC

ATTACK PEARL HARBOR AGEAN... JK

WAS A SURPRISE MILITARY STRIKE CONDUCTED BY THE IMPERIAL JAPANESE NAVY AGAINST THE UNITED STATES NAVAL BASE AT PEARLHARBOR

JAPAN INVADES MANCHURIA

WHEN MANCHURIA WAS INVADED BY THE KWANTUNG ARMY OF THE EMPIRE OF JAPAN

DOOLITTLE RAIDS

WAS THE FIRST AIR RAID BY THE UNITED STATES TO STRIKE THE JAPANESE HOME ISLANDS

CORAL SEA BATTLE

WAS A MAJOR NAVAL BATTLE IN THE PACIFIC BETWEEN THE IMPERIAL JAPANESE NAVY AND ALLIES FORCES

BATTLE OF MIDWAY

WAS THE MOST IMPORTANT NAVAL BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC CAMPAIGN OF WORLD WAR II

KAMIKAZES

were suicide attacks by military aviators from the Empire of Japan against Allied naval vessels

BATAAN DEATH MARCH

WAS THE FORCIBLE TRANSFER BY THE IMPERIAL JAPANESE ARMY OF 60-80,000 FILIPINO AND AMERICAN PRISONERS

IWO JIMA

WAS A MAJOR BATTLE IN WHICH THE UNITED STATES FOUGHT FOR AND CAPTURED THE ISLAND OF IWO JIMA

HIROSHIMA/NAGASKI

ATOMIC BOMBINGS OF THE CITIES OF HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI IN JAPAN WERE CONDUCTED BY THE UNITED STATES IN 1945

V-J DAY

IS A NAME CHOSEN FOR THE DAY ON WHICH JAPAN SURRENDERED, EFFECTIVELY ENDING WORLD WAR II

UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER

IS A SURRENDER WITHOUT CONDITIONS, IN WHICH NO GUARANTEES ARE GIVEN TO THE SURRENDERING PARTY

WWII PART 3

WAR AT HOME

WAR TIME ECONOMY

BROUGHT U.S. OUT OF THE DEPRESSION, WW2 gave jobs to thousands, if not millions, of people in the US

DECEMBER 8TH 1941

THE PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS TO CONGRESS, ONE DAY AFTER THE EMPIRE OF JAPAN'S ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR

DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

A FIVE-STAR GENERAL IN THE U.S. ARMY DURING WWII ALSO SERVED AS SUPREME COMMANDER,THE 34TH PRESIDENT

MANHATTAN PROJECT

WAS A RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT PROJECT THAT PRODUCED THE FIRST ATOMIC BOMBS DURING WORLD WAR II

WOMEN'S ROLE IN WW2

VICTORY GARDENS

(WAR GARDENS) LIFTED THE PRESSURE ON THE PUBLIC FOOD SUPPLY BROUGHT ON BY THE WAR EFFORT

RATIONS

YOU COULDN'T JUST WALK INTO A SHOP AND BUY AS MUCH SUGAR OR BUTTER OR MEAT AS YOU WANTED

WAR BONDS

DEBT SECURITIES ISSUED BY A GOVERNMENT FOR THE PURPOSE OF FINANCING MILITARY, ADDED MILITARY SUPPORT

INTERNMENT CAMPS

the relocation and internment by the United States government in 1942

POLIO-FDR

GI BILL

WAS A LAW THAT PROVIDED A RANGE OF BENEFITS FOR RETURNING WORLD WAR II VETERANS, LOW EDUCATION, ECT

WW2 PART 4

HOLOCAUST

HOLOCAUST

WAS THE MASS MURDER OR GENOCIDE OF APPROXIMATELY SIX MILLION JEWS

REASONS JEWS WERE BLAMED

KRYSTALNACHT

WAS A POGROM (A SERIES OF COORDINATED ATTACKS) AGAINST JEWS

ARYAN NATION

A WHITE SUPREMACIST RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATION ORIGINALLY FROM HAYDEN LAKE, IDAHO

GENOCIDE

A TERM COINED IN 1944 TO DESCRIBE THE DELIBERATE AND SYSTEMATIC DESTRUCTION, IN WHOLE OR IN PART

GHETTOS

A GHETTO IS A PART OF A CITY IN WHICH MEMBERS OF A MINORITY GROUP LIVE, ESPECIALLY BECAUSE OF ECONOMIC PRESSURE

JEWS TARGETED

JEWS WERE TARGETED AND KILLED YOU COULD SELL YOU NEIGHBOR OUT FOR A BAG OF MONEY

CONCENTRATION CAMPS

NAZI GERMANY MAINTAINED CONCENTRATION CAMPS THROUGHOUT THERE TERRITORIES, FOR MASS MURDER OF JEWS

AUSCHWITZ

WAS A NETWORK OF CONCENTRATION AND EXTERMINATION CAMPS BUILT AND OPERATED BY THE THIRD REICH

DACHAU

DACHAU CONCENTRATION CAMP WAS THE FIRST OF THE NAZI CONCENTRATION CAMPS OPENED IN GERMANY

FINAL SOLUTION

was Nazi Germany's plan during World War II to annihilate the Jewish people

NUREMBERG TRIALS

MILITARY TRIBUNALS NOTABLE FOR THE PROSECUTION OF PROMINENT MEMBERS OF THE POLITICAL LEADERSHIP