February 11, 2013

Continue WW2 presentations.

Battle of Stalingrad:

  • fought during the winter of 1942
  • what made the German Army retreat
  • Bloodiest battle
  • major turning point in Russia

Dive Bombers

  • aircrafts that dropped bombs
  • big radios to tell the coordinates of where they were going to drop the bombs
  • not used very much until WW2

Hiroshima:

  • largest city in Japan
  • until we bombed
  • only 2 bombs used throughout the war
  • people died from debris and radiation
  • effected the surrender of Japan
  • exploded before it hit the ground

United Nations:

  • 193 nations today
  • world wide peace keeping organization
  • was called the league of nations

Hitler:

  • born in Austria
  • dictator of Nazi Germany
  • Leader of the Holocaust
  • killed himself because he was losing the battle

Normandy American Cemetery

  • in France
  • all the people that died from the war in the cemetery
  • a lot of Americans buried there

M4 Sherman Tank:

  • Holds 5 people
  • 11 tons

P-51 Mustang 1944

  • fastest jet that the U.S. had
  • 440 mph

M1 Helmets

  • 22 million helmets made in 1925

M1A1 Rifle

  • Lightest rifle they had

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