German invades Poland:
- goose stepping
- started the war
- brought Europe into the war
- 1939
Britain declares war on France
- after that France declares war on Germany
Albert Einstein:
- invented the atomic bomb
- didn't know what they were going to use it on until Pearl Harbor
- First atomic bomb used on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
FDR:
- election for his 3rd term
- Against Wendall Wilky
- president for 12 years
- took us through WW2 and the Great Depression
Winter War:
- Soviet Union invaded Finland
- got suspended from the league of nations
- Finland used to be part of Russia
British Athena Sinking in 1939:
- first boat sunk
- boat to give supplies to
Winston Churchill:
- Prime minister of Great Britain
- worked hard to become friends with the U.S.
- found ridiculous that we were in the war
Johann Georg Elser 1940
- Hitler had a speech
- 5 minutes off from killing Hitler
- an attempt to assassin Hitler
German U- Boats Attack Merchants:
- Britain contemplated backing out of the war
- Germany had a lot
- Not the only country that had them
- All of Europe of taken over in 1940
- Great Britain is bombarded every night
Women 1941:
- women had to step up and take the men jobs
- they had to take care of shops and work in factories
Auschwitz:
- largest of German camps
- 3 million people died
- 90% were Jewish
- had 3 different camps in Auschwitz
Pearl Harbor:
- surprise attack on the U.S
- Japan
- shocked Americans and got them into the war
- December 8 declared war on Japen
Barbarossa operation:
- German invaded USSR
- Soviet Union won
- millions of lives lost
- code name for the attack on the soviet union
The blitz:
- bombing on the UK 1941
- 16 cities were bombed
- Blitzkrieg= lightning warfare
- used to overwhelm the enemy
- took many countries over in about a month from Blitzkrieg
WAAC:
- women Auxiliary corporation
- tested things
- be nurses
- serve in branches of millitary
Air Transport Command plane
- drop supplies that people need
- fly over the pyramids in Egypt
- between Germany and Italy
Nazi's shut down the Jewish ghettos, after defeated the French:
- German's defeated France
- then shut down the Jewish ghettos in Poland
- then forced them into camps
Air Raid on Bari, air Attack:
- Little pearl harbor
- German air force bombed it
- where we kept our ammunition
Landed coast of France under heavy Nazi machine gun Fire:
- D-Day
Nagasaki Bomb:
- bomb that killed 60- 80 thousand people
Crusader tanks:
- most used tanks in the war
- cheapest to build
- why people them a lot
Hitler
- committed suicide in 1945
- because they were losing
- didn't want to get captured by the Soviets
Iwo Jima
- 5 marines
- rose the flag
Japan Surrenders:
- Sept. 2 1945
- surrendered from the bombings that happened
Holocaust:
- Hitler came to power in Germany
- started the Nazi race
- liked people with blond hair and blue eyes
- Jews were his scapegoats
Germany invades Poland:
- Made Poland surrender
- started WW2
Allied Powers created:
- created to fight the axis powers
- the allied Germany, Japan, and Italy
- Axis powers U.S., Great Britain, China, Canada, Soviet Union
Battle of Britain:
- 1940
- fought by airforce
- Germany bombed Great Britain
- Great Britain wasn't going to surrender
- GB situation not good
Pearl Harbor:
- Dec. 7 1941
- Japanese attacked US
- declared war the next day
- lasted 2 hours
Pacific War
- 1941
- between Japan and US
- after Pearl Harbor
- US invaded Thailand
- sneak attacks were on islands
- invading a lot of islands
- tough to attack islands
- fought to the death
Dwight Eisenhower
- Allied Supreme Commander
- smartest guy out of his army class
- Help train guys how to run tanks
- became president after WW2
Women Support:
- Rosie the Riveter
- Make supplies for the army
- wanted to be like men but were still women
Battle of Midway:
- Japan and US
- US bombed the Japan Fliet
- biggest warfare in WW2
- First victory against Japan for the US
- Japan far from doomed
- Japan never won after this attack
Stalingrad:
- Soviet Union and Germany
- SU won
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