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World War II

World War II. By: Sarah Pappa Sabrina Fields Michael Mueller. Important People. Adolf Hitler: Austrian-born, German politician who was leader of the Nazis. Ruled Germany from 1933-1945. Winston Churchill: Prime minister of Great Britain during WWII.

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World War II

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  1. World War II By: Sarah Pappa Sabrina Fields Michael Mueller

  2. Important People • Adolf Hitler: Austrian-born, German politician who was leader of the Nazis. Ruled Germany from 1933-1945. • Winston Churchill: Prime minister of Great Britain during WWII. • Charles de Gaulle: French General. Created the Free-French Military forces. • Dwight Eisenhower: American General who was commander in Europe of the Allied Forces. Led D-Day. • Nazis: Followers of Hitler in Nazi Germany.

  3. Vocabulary • Genocide: Killing of an entire race. • D-Day: The allies invaded the beaches of Normandy on June 6th 1944, led by General Dwight D. Eisenhower. • Nuremberg Trials: Nazi leaders faced charges of war aggression and committing crimes against humanity. • Axis Powers: Germany, Japan & Italy. • Auschwitz: Largest extermination camp in the Holocaust.

  4. Appeasement • Germany Invaded Czechoslovakia, league of nations granted them territory • Munich conference- September 30 1938 • United Nations did nothing to stop the Germans

  5. Holocaust • November 9, 1938, violence broke out against Jews. • Hitler's term for the “Master-Race” was “Aryans”. They were German. • Nazi’s targets were the Gypsies, Jews, handicapped, mentally ill, deaf and/or blind, and African-German children. • If a person had 3-4 Jewish grandparents, they were defined as a Jew.

  6. Final Solution • Hitler’s Final Solution was to ruin the Jewish race by genocide.

  7. Pearl Harbor • December 7th, 1941 the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. • 2,350 people were killed.

  8. Major Battles • Battle of Midway- June of 1942, turned the tide of the war in the pacific • Battle of Stalingrad September 1942- January 1943, prevented Nazis from gaining oil fields in Russia • Doolittle Raid- U.S. bombing of Tokyo on April 18 1942, B-25B bombers took off of aircraft carriers into Japan

  9. D-Day • Allies landed on the beaches of Normandy. • Turned the tide of WWII. • June 6th, 1944. • Soldiers were slaughtered when they landed on the beach.

  10. Nuremburg Trials • Trial of Axis-Power soldier for their war crimes after World War 2 • Most Criminal were either imprisoned or put to death • Some were never found, and lived the rest of their lives in hiding

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