American History Overview of World War II

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American History Overview of World War II

• Nandip Patel

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The Major Axis and Allied Powers

• Major Axis Powers -
• Germany
• Italy
• Japan
• Major Allied Powers -
• France
• Great Britain
• Russia
• United States

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German Begin WWII

• Adolf Hitler the German leader encourage German
  people to invade more land, so Germany could
  become super power and power race.
• England France told Hitler to stop invading
  other countries.
• Hitler broke promise and invaded Norway.

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The Holocaust

• Systematic murder of 11 million people in Europe
  and more than half were Jewish.
• To identify Jewish, Nazi attached yellow David
  star on every Jewish persons cloth.
• German killed many races beside German because he
  wanted German race to be powerful in world.

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Stalin and Soviet Union

• Stalin played big roll during 1930s.
• He made Soviet Union industrial country from
  rural country.
• Stalin firmly established totalitarian government
  that maintained complete control over its citizen.

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Hitler Invading Soviet Union

• After invading Poland, Hitler started to invading
  Soviet Union.
• Soviet Union and Hitler signed non- aggression
  act.( not to attack each other.)

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Italy Enter the War

• Although, Benito Mussolini's, the great dictator
  of Italy, described German-Italian alliance as
  an "Axis of Blood and Steel", he responded to the
  German invasion by declaring Italy neutral and a
  "non-belligerent".
• On June 10, 1940, as the French government fled
  to Bordeaux, Mussolini felt the conflict would
  soon end and declared war on Britain and France
  aiming to expand the Italian colonies in North
  Africa which was taken by British and French
  colonies.

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Japan Attack United State

• Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in Hawaii.
• Pearl Harbor was the largest U.S. naval base in
  pacific.
• That forced U.S. enter the war.

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America Joins the War!

• America joined war in 1941.
• American economy went up because many people
  started working in factories of production that
  is used in war.
• Many African-American and Mexicans joined army to
  fight in war.

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Ammunition used in WWII

• During WWII army had better weapons to fight.
• Atomic bomb was invented during WWII by America
  to attack Japan.
• The inventor was a US Army officer called Skinner
  who had been known for experimenting with mortars
  and rockets.

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HIROSHIMA UNDER ATTACK!

• America attack Japan as a revenge because Japan
  attacked Pearl Harbor.
• America drop atomic bomb at Hiroshima in Japan.
• It killed 80,000 people and destroyed 80 of the
  city and plus 60,000 people died because of
  injuries and radiation poisoning in Hiroshima.

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NAGASAKI UNDER ATTACK!!

• Nagasaki second Japanese city that was attacked
  by Atomic Bomb on August 9, 1945.
• About 70,000 of Nagasaki's 240,000 residents were
  killed instantly.
• 60,000 people were injured.
• The code of attack was FAT MAN.

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The Battle Of The Atlantic

• The Germans aim to prevent food and war materials
  reaching Great Britain and the Soviet Union.
• Hitler knows that the long shipping lane from
  North America is Britain lifeline and if he cut
  that off then Britain would starved into
  submission.
• German sank 87 American ships in Atlantic and in
  seven month Germans have destroyed total 681
  allied ship.

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The North Africa Front

• The American General Dwight D. Eisenhower
  commanded Operation Torch the invasion of
  Axis-controlled in North Africa.
• In November 1942, some 107,000 allied troops,
  mostly Americans landed in Casablanca, Oran, and
  Algiers in N. Africa.

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D-DAY

• 3 million American , British, and Canadians
  troops planned to invade Normandy in northern
  France.
• On June 6,1944, the first day of invasion.
• 8,000 men died on D-Day.

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The Allies Gain Power

• After seven days of fighting, the allied held an
  80-miles strips of France.
• In a month they have landed millions of troops
  and 567,000 tons of supplies and 170,000 vehicles
  in France.

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Battle Of The Bulge

• In October 1944, Americans captured the first
  German town, Aachen.
• The Germans have lost 120,000 troops, 600 tanks
  and assault guns, and 1,600 planes in battle of
  the Bulge.
• It was the turning point of the WWII.

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V-E DAY

• General Eisenhower accepted the unconditional
  surrender of the third Reich.
• On May 8,1945 the Allied celebrated V-E DAY.(
  the Victory in Europe Day.)
• The war was Finally over in Europe.

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Roosevelts Death

• President Roosevelt did not live to see the V-E
  Day.
• On April 12, 1945, while posing for portrait in
  Warm Spring, Georgia, the president had stroke
  and died.
• That night Vice president Harry S. Truman became
  33rd President of U.S.

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THANK YOU!!!!

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