Reminders:

1. Reminders: HW tonight –900-904 (two “just reads” and a HW question” The good news: No More DBQs The bad news: No more DBQs until the AP Test

2. In what level of detail do I need to know the events of WWII? • You need to know turning points and why they are important (both for the Allies and Axis) • You DO NOT need to know details of military strategy unless it relates to the above (important turning point) • This lecture will highlight these important events.

3. World War 2 European, African & Pacific Theaters

4. Some Review – Munich Pact and Appeasement • Chamberlain – Hitler – you can have the Sudetenland…and no more. • Hitler takes all of Czechoslovakia • Then on to Poland

5. Nazi Soviet Pact

6. World War II Battle of Stalingrad & Operation Torch Battle of Britain Pearl Harbor Poland Invasion D-Day <-------------------------------------------------> 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 Invasion Soviet Union France Falls Battle of Midway Germany Surrenders & Atomic Bomb ends Pacific War

7. 3-Theatres of War: European, African & Pacific

9. The European Theater Battle of Britain Eastern Front

10. Invasion of Poland and Hitler’s “lightning war” • Blitzkrieg • Russia occupies Eastern Poland • 1940 Denmark, Norway, Netherlands

11. “The wholesale destruction of Poland is the military objective. Speed is the main thing. Pursuit until complete annihilation.” - Hitler…August 1939

12. Rescue at Dunkirk • June 1940:England rescues 330,000 soldiers from coast of France • Send 850 ships to rescue • Britain is now alone in the war!

13. Vichy France • France surrenders June 1940 • France is divided • Germans control north • Puppet government formed in southern France Henri Petain

14. The French Resistance The Free French General Charles DeGaulle

15. Battle of Britain England fights alone!

16. LONDON after an air attack by the GERMANS Civilians became targets in World War II

17. The London “Tube”:Air Raid Shelters during the Blitz

18. Battle of Britain:The “Blitz”

20. Leningrad Moscow Stalingrad ATTACK ON RUSSIA

21. Battle of Stalingrad

22. Stalingrad burning!

23. What is happening in Hitler’s “Final Solution” at this time? What role does Hitler’s final solution play in Nazi ideology? 1939 – Ghettos established in Eastern Europe 1942 – deportation to extermination camps throughout Central Europe (mostly in Poland) • Auschwitz-Birkenau the largest • Jews, gypsies, disabled are targeted but other groups against Nazis also included.

24. Allied Strategy • December 22 1941: Stalin, Roosevelt & Churchill agree on a War Strategy • U.S. & Great Britain- concentrate on Southern Europe & Northern Africa • Soviet Union- on its “own” against Germany on eastern front • U.S.- continue fight against Japan in Pacific

25. Italy surrenders - 1943 Mussolini & His Mistress,Claretta Petacci Are Hung in Milan, 1945

26. D-Day (June 6, 1944)

27. Normandy Landing (June 6, 1944) German Prisoners Higgins Landing Crafts

28. The Liberation of Paris:August 25, 1944 De Gaulle in Triumph!

29. The Eastern Front – the Russians push west

30. Wait – I thought this was a world war! Pacific Theater Japan Philippines “A dagger pointed at our throat”Yamamoto

31. U.S. Declares War on Japan “A date that will live in Infamy”

32. Midway June 1942 Coral Sea May 1942 Battles after Pearl Harbor

33. U.S. closes in on Japan

34. Atomic Bombs Top secret project known as the “Manhattan Project” First bomb exploded in desert in July 1945