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WW2 Project

WW2 Project. Roth Block:3 May 16, 2010 Antonio Marshall. When did WW2 occur???. Ww2 occurred on the 1 st of September 1939 when Germany invaded Poland . When did WW2 ended. WW2 ended on September 2nd 1945 . What alliances were formed During WW2???. United states El Salvador

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WW2 Project

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  1. WW2 Project Roth Block:3 May 16, 2010 Antonio Marshall

  2. When did WW2 occur??? • Ww2 occurred on the 1st of September 1939 when Germany invaded Poland.

  3. When did WW2 ended • WW2 ended on September 2nd 1945

  4. What alliances were formed During WW2??? • United states El Salvador • Great Britain Honduras • Australia New Zealand • Canada Poland • China India • Costa Rica Nicaragua • Hattie South Africa • Dominican republic Russia • Netherlands Greece • Panama Belgium • Luxembourg Norway • Yugoslavia Guatemala • Czechoslovakia

  5. Axis Powers • Germany • Italy • Japan • Hungary • Romania • Bulgaria

  6. World leaders during WW2 Franklin D. Roosevelt Joseph Stalin Winston Churchill Mussolini Adolf Hitler Tojo

  7. What was the Nazi Party??? • The Nazi party was founded in 1919 by Adolf Hitler. • This group was formed on ideas of racial superiority, Territorial suspension and blamed the Jewish people for everything that went wrong in Germany.

  8. What was the holocaust??? • The Holocaust was the murder of six million Jews by the Nazi Germans. The Nazis thought that Germans were racially superior and that the Jews were inferior. • During the Holocaust, German people also targeted groups because of their racial inferiority • Gypsies, the disabled, and some of the Slavic people such as Poles, Russians, Communists, Socialists, Jehovah's Witnesses, and homosexuals.

  9. The main battles of WW2 • Battles • Atlantic September 1939 - May 1945 • Berlin April 16 - May 2,1945 • Britain July 10 - October 31,1940 • Bulge December 16, 1944 - January 25,1945 • El Alamein (First Battle) July 1-27, 1942 • El Alamein (Second Battle) October 23 - November 4,1942 • Guadalcanal Campaign August 7, 1942 - February 9,1943 • Iwo Jima February 19 - March 16,1945 • Kursk July 5 - August 23, 1943

  10. The main battles of WW2 con…… • Leningrad (Siege) September 8, 1941 - January 27,1944 • Leyte Gulf October 23-26,1944 Midway June 3-6,1942 Milne Bay August 25 - September 5,1942 • Normandy including D-Day June 6 - August 25,1944 • Okinawa April 1 - June 21,1945 • Operation Barbarossa June 22, 1941 - December 1941 • Operation Torch November 8-10, 1942 • Pearl Harbor December 7, 1941 • Philippine Sea June 19-20, 1944 • Stalingrad August 21, 1942 - February 2, 1943

  11. Main Weapons and vehicles for WW2 • Tanks • Matilda II Tank • M4 Sherman • M5 Stuart • T34 • Panzer III • Panzer IV • Panzer V • Panzer VI  • SDKFZ 251 Armored Personnel Carrier • Aircraft • Chance Vought F4U Corsair • Republic P-47 "Thunderbolt • North American A-36 (Predecessor to P-51) • North American P-51 "Mustang" • Grumman F4F "Wildcat" • North American T6 "Texan"  and T6 Flyby • North American A-36 • Republic P-47 "Thunderbolt“ • Lockheed P-38 "Lightning" • Boeing B-17 "Flying Fortress“ • Consolidated B-24 "Liberator" • North American B-25B "Mitchell" • Boeing B-29 "Super Fortress" • Boeing B-29 "Super Fortress" • Northrop P-61 "Black Widow" • Douglas C-47 "Dakota" (Kilroy) • C-47 "Skytrain" Transport • Grumman "Duck" • Missing man formation performed by Grumman "Cats" • F6F's on snow covered carrier deck. • Ships • Escort Aircraft Carriers • Weapons • Atomic CannonBrowning M2HB • Little boy • Fatman

  12. How did WW2 affect Americas home front??? • The woman started to fill in the men's jobs as the men went to war. • There was a baby boom and the woman had to Juggle their home and work life. • Every one in the family received ration books.

  13. How did WW2 end for all the countries involved??? • WW2 ended with the surrender of the Axis powers. • Germany surrendered on May 7th to the Western Allies, and May 8th to the Soviet Union, 1945 • Japan was able to hold out for another few months. Atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9. He made a radio address announcing the decision on August 15, 1945. It was signed on Sept. 2, 1945 aboard the battleship A.S.S. Missouri in Tokyo Bay. • President Truman officially declared an end to hostilities by Presidential Proclamation on December 31, 1946.

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