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WWII 1939-1945 In the 1930’s neither Germany, Italy, Japan, nor the U.S.S.R. was content with the conditions of the Paris peace conference. Great Britain, France, and the U.S. were satisfied powers but they had lost faith in the conditions and were unwilling to risk war for the sake of upholding them.
Appeasement & Gradual Encroachment
Battle of Britain U.S. Involvement: Neutrality to Lend-Lease
“Dec 7, 1941 a date that will live in infamy”
Why did the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor? What was fortunate for the Americans?
Turning points in the War in Europe Montgomery Battle of El Alamein Battle of Stalingrad “Desert Fox”
German Field Marshall Wilhelm Keitel surrenders at Soviet headquarters in Berlin, May 9, 1945.The war in Europe is over!
Holocaust Warsaw Ghetto Liberated camp
Battle of Midway USS YORKTOWN HIT BY JAPANESE CARRIER PLANES. IT WAS THE ONLY CARRIER THE U.S. LOST. THE JAPANESE LOST FOUR CARRIERS AND ALL THEIR PILOTS.
The decision to drop the Atomic Bombs • IWO JIMA, OKINAWA, AND THE KAMIKAZES • FIREBOMBING OF JAPAN • HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI American Casualties for Iwo Jima & Okinawa exceeded 90,000
MODEL OF “LITTLE BOY” ATOMIC BOMB ENOLA GAY, PLANE THAT DROPPED THE BOMB THE CREW OF THE ENOLA GAY, PLANE THAT DROPPED THE FIRST ATOMIC BOMB ON JAPAN