WWII: The Worlds Involved

1. WWII: The Worlds Involved

2. Powers ALLIED AXSIS • Allied • U.S., Britain • France • USSR • Australia • Belgium • Brazil • Canada • China • Denmark • Greece • Netherlands • New Zealand • Norway • Poland • South Africa • Yugoslavia • Germany • Italy • Japan • Hungary • Romania • Bulgaria

3. War Major turning points of the war 1. Battle of Britain. This showed that the Germans could be beaten in one way or another. 2.Battle of El Alamein. Like the Battle of Britain this showed the world that the Germans could be beaten but this time on land and this also began their expulsion from North Africa. 3. Operation Barbarossa. Or for non-historical people the invasion of Russia. This was possibly the major turning point as whoever lost would lose the war and Germany did lose. 4. Pearl Harbor. This was incredibly major as it bought America into the war and unless they were defeated immediately Japan was always going to lose. 5. D-day. Germany had two fronts to fight on and things weren't going very well against Russia either. 6. Battle of Kursk. The worlds first so called Tank battle took place in modern day Ukraine and this was where Germany really did lose the war against Russia. 7. Battle of the Bulge. This was Hitler's last chance to push the British and American forces out of Europe and it nearly worked but like all of Hitler's plans a t that stage it didn't. https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090512124957AABN2ni

4. Strategies(Press Strategies to see Movie) Resulting war conferences Pre-War Conferences The Munich Conference, held over two days in September 1938, saw Britain, Germany, France and Italy meet to discuss the issue of German claims to the Sudetenland area of Czechoslovakia. The conference agreed to let Germany annex the Sudetenland, and British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain returned home to declare that “peace for our time” had been secured. Events would prove him wrong, and within a year World War II had broken out. Axis Wartime Conferences The Axis powers -- Germany, Italy and Japan -- had already established a working relationship via a series of agreements in the late 1930s, but they formally sealed their alliance at a conference in Berlin in September 1940. With an eye on dissuading the United States from joining the war, the resultant Tripartite Pact compelled the signatories to come to one another’s aid if any of the three was attacked by a neutral country. Allied Wartime Conferences The first conference between President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill held after the U.S. declaration of war took place in December 1941 and was codenamed “Arcadia.” The two agreed to co-ordinate their efforts to defeat Germany. The following year, Churchill met Joseph Stalin in Moscow, while Roosevelt and Churchill met again in North Africa in 1943, agreeing to invade Sicily and starting plans for the invasion of Normandy. Two further conferences between Churchill and Roosevelt in 1943 advanced these plans. Finally, the three main Allied leaders -- Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin -- met jointly in December 1943 in Tehran. They firmed up a strategy for the year ahead, began to think about a post-war Europe and declared that “we are sure that our concord will win an enduring Peace.”

5. Geography Geographic factors The fact that England was an island prevented the Germans from winning the war in 1940 after winning the Battle of France. The great expanse of the Soviet Union and the harsh winter prevented the Germans from prevailing in its initial blitzkrieg onslaught in 1941. The relative remoteness of the United States permitted the US arsenal of democracy to produce war goods without harassment from enemy bombardment. Furthermore, its distance from Japan ensured that the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor would not prove to be 'decisive' (it did not compel the US to sue for peace) since the Japanese could not physically invade the West Coast. http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_was_the_importance_of_geographic_factors_in_World_War_2.