Today we reviewed the events leading up to WW2 and began presenting the picture power points :)
- Germany invaded Poland in 1939, one of the major events that started the war
- The Winter War: November 30 1939. The soviet union and Germany invaded Finland, which got them kicked out of the League of nations. The fought on skis and snowmobiles. This is the part of the war that most people do not think about.
- Battle Britain
- Concentration Camps like Auschwitz. Started running in 1941.
- Pearl Harbor 1941: The U.S was expecting to have some planes flown onto the base on that day so they thought nothing of it when the Japanese planes showed up on their radar.
- D-Day: Landing at Normandy on June 6th 1944
- The battle of Peleliu: September 15 1944. It was a marine war and men invaded islands via ships. The US started island hopping in order to take control of all of their air strips.
- Iwo Jima 1945: We took over Iwo Jima in order to be able to nuke Japan
- Bombing of London: The German offensive bombed London. They wanted to gain air superiority over Great Britain and hoped that eventually they would just surrender, but they never did.
- Dive Bombers- Planes used in order to be more accurate when bombing. A man would sit in the back with a machine gun in order to protect the plane and the pilot.
- German Type VII Submarine- The most popular type of u boats used by Germany during ww2
- Crusader Tanks- Very cost efficient, many of these were manufactured.
- Battle of Stalingrad: Lasted a little over 5 months. Was a very major battle of WW2 and is condiered one of the largest battles in history, and had massive amount of casualties. Between Germany and the Soviet Union. One of the most famous battles in the history of the World.
- Nagasaki Bomb- The second A-bomb the United States used to make Japan surrender.
- Gas Mask Training- Soldiers were trained how to use gas mask even though gas was very rarely used during WW2.
- African Americans wanted to fight in WW2. It was very difficult for them to join the military due to how they were negatively viewed by whites at the time. They were segregated and made into all black units.
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