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World War II: The Path to Global Conflict

Learn about the events leading to WWII, major battles like Stalingrad and D-Day, impactful leaders, the Holocaust, and the war's end. Understand the significance of this pivotal moment in history.

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World War II: The Path to Global Conflict

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  1. World War II By: Lieutenant Sargent

  2. How it got started? • The Great Depression crippled the world’s economy. Germany’s republican form of government was a failure and the citizens turned them towards a fascist parties. • Adolf Hitler’s Nazi party grew popular • Hitler became chancellor of Germany and left the League of Nations. • Germany invaded Poland on September 1,1939. • Britain and France declared war on Germany three days later.

  3. How it got started? • South Africa declared war on Germany and Egypt broke its’ ties with Germany. • In 1939, The United States declared its self neutral in the war. • Germany, Italy, and Japan signed the Tripartite Pact in 1940, which is better known as the axis alliance.

  4. On December 7, 1941 Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. Around 2,402 people were killed along with 4 battleships and 2 destroyers were sunk. The next day Roosevelt declared war on Japan. What are we fighting for??

  5. Major Battles • The Battle of the River Plate - The first major naval battle of the war. - The German ship, The Admiral Graf Spee, was outnumbered by the three British ships the Execter, Ajax, and Achilles. - The Admiral Graf took 70 shots to her and retreated away to nearby Uruguay.

  6. On December 17, 1939 Captain Hans Langsdorf blew up his own ship knowing that he could not escape due to heavy damages and the British ships nearby waiting. The Battle of the River Plate

  7. Major Battles • Stalingrad • The German army was heavily penetrated deep in the Soviet Union and Hitler ordered an attack on the city Stalingrad. • Stalingrad was Russia’s center for communications as well as manufacturing. • Each side had over one million soldiers fighting in the city.

  8. Battles took place on every street and in houses. Soviet Commander Marshal Zhukov surrounded the city and re-took the entire city. The Germans started to remove all of their forces from Russia. Stalingrad

  9. Major Battles • D-Day/ Normandy - Was a part of Operation Overlord - The largest amphibious invasion ever! - The Invasion of Normandy purpose was the take the German forces out of France. - The soldiers came to shore and early in the morning and began to fight on June 6 1944.

  10. Normandy • There was over a quarter of a million allied causalities during the invasion

  11. Leaders of WWII • Winston Churchill • Adolf Hitler • Neville Chamberlain • Joseph Stalin • Hideki Tojo • Benito Mussolini • Franklin D. Roosevelt

  12. Leaders of WWII • Allied V. Axis

  13. The End of WWII • The Battle of Okinawa 1945. • The Atomic Bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. • Japan Surrenders. • Mussolini is murdered. • Hitler commits suicide. • WWII ended the depression. • United Nations was born.

  14. Holocaust • Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany. • Hitler blamed the Jews for the downfall of Germany. • Hitler started by burning Jewish books and took away Jewish people’s jobs. • Then the Nuremberg laws were made. - Jewish exclusion from the German society.

  15. Holocaust • When Germany invaded Poland, The Nazi’s created Ghetto’s for the Polish Jews. • Jews made up ten percent of the Polish population, sent away to concentration camps. • They were transported by livestock cars (train) and were crowded in there with little food or water.

  16. Holocaust • When the Jews arrived at the concentration camps their families were separated. • They were killed in gas chambers. • They lived in barracks and starved to death and froze to death. • Auschwitz was one of the biggest concentration camps.

  17. The holocaust ended when World War II ended. Six million Jews were murdered. Holocaust

  18. It brought the United Nations The advancement of weapons and technology Global connection to today

  19. Bibliography • "1939." History Learning Site. Web. 02 Nov. 2011. <http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/1939.htm>. • "History of the Holocaust - An Introduction." Jewish Virtual Library - Homepage. Web. 02 Nov. 2011. <http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaus t/history.html>. • "Prelude to World War 2 - Worldwar-2.net." World War 2 Timeline 1939-1945 - Worldwar-2.net. 2006. Web. 02 Nov. 2011. <http://www.worldwar-2.net/prelude-to- war/prelude-to-war-index.htm>. • "World War II." United States American History. Web. 02 Nov. 2011. <http://www.u-s- history.com/pages/h1661.html>.

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