- What were the cause of WW2?
- What impact did the US have on WW2?
- Why did the US and Allies win WW2?
Timeline up to WW2:
- 1918-WW1 ended
- 1919-Treaty of Versailles
- 1920's-PEACE!!
- 1930-Great Depression Starts
- 1931-Japan invades Manchuria
- 1933-Hitler comes to power in Germany
- 1937-Japan invades China
- 1939-WW2 starts
Why did Hitler do what he did?
Bill and Jerad presentation:
- Invasion of Poland:
- Germany want to get back what they lost with the treaty of Versailles
- Germany invaded in September 1939
- beginning of WW2
- German won
- death camps
- Germany had over 2 million units
- Soviet Union helped Germany
- Soviet Union wanted land back
- soviet union lost Poland
- Italy declares war on Britain:
- Invasion on Poland started the declaring of war
- Italy sided with Germany
- Japan attacks Pearl Harbor:
- December 7 1941
- Japan sent a lot of planes to Pearl Harbor
- Bombing attack
- planes took off from air craft carrier
- Gas chamber:
- death camps- Germany rounded up Jews and people hiding them
- worked them to death or gassed them
- body's would be thrown in ditches or ashes would be thrown in ditches
- barely any food
- German 6th arms surrenders at Stalingrad:
- Russian and Nazi's
- surprise attack on Russians
- pushed back into Russia
- it settled into the winter
- Germans- no training in Russian winter
- major turning point in war
- Hitler's first great mistake
- summer of 1940
- bloodiest battle
- lasted for 5 months
- Germany control of 90% of the city
- Stalingrad known as Volgograd
- Invasion of Normandy/D-day:
- D-Day
- fought on Omaha beach
- US invaded from Great Britain
- June 6, 1944
- Normandy beach France
- Yalta Conference:
- Leaders discussed how to build back Europe
- pushed for Poland so they could vote
- famous conference for what to do with Germany
- Hiroshima:
- telling japan to stay out of the war
- US bombed japan
- +100,000 deaths
- japan backed out of war
- US told japan we would bomb them if they didn't back out
- 60% of deaths from bombs
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