World War II

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World War II
The European Front

• Mr. Phillip Barker

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Standards

• Standard 10 An Era of Global Conflicts,
  Challenges, Controversies, and Changes 1900 to
  the Present
• WH.10.4 Trace and explain the antecedents,
  causes, major events, and global consequences of
  World War II, including the Holocaust. (Civics
  and Government Individuals, Society, and Culture)

American History Note, this PowerPoint only
encompasses the European Theater of Operations.
It does not contain information on the Japanese
front or on the Holocaust.
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Combatants

• Allied powers
• United Kingdom
• Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
• United States
• Republic of China

• Axis powers
• Germany
• Italy
• Japan

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Commanders

• Adolf Hitler
• Benito Mussolini
• Hideki Tojo

• Winston Churchill
• Joseph Stalin
• Franklin Roosevelt
• Chiang Kai-Shek

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Hitlers Cause

• Wanted to be released from the restrictions set
  in the treaty of Versailles
• 1935-1938 Hitler materializes and starts a
  campaign on Austria and Czechoslovakia
• Invades Poland September 1, 1939
• Britain and France declare war on Germany

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Britain in the Line Of Fire

• Winston Churchill becomes prime minister in 1940
• Battle of Britain 1940
• Air attack on British air force
• Germans repelled
• British invasion postponed

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Lightning War

• Germany Dominates
• April Norway and Denmark
• May Belgium, Netherlands, and Luxemburg
• June France

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Attacking Soviet Union

• Hitlers master plan
• Expand Germany into Soviet Union against their
  non-aggression pact
• Unsuspecting Stalin was caught by surprise

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Invading The Union

• Hitler invades the Soviet Union June 22, 1941
• Germany annihilates unprepared Russia until
  winter
• Germans make it just outside Leningrad and Moscow

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D-Day

• June 6, 1944
• Allies attack through Normandy, France
• Soviets attack Germany from
  the East
• Hitler commits suicide
• Germany surrenders May 8, 1945

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End of the War

• The Yalta Conference (February 1945) is held to
  piece Europe back together
• Germany is
  separated into four
  zones between
  British, French,
  United States, and
  Soviet Union

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Resources

• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_Two
• http//www.indianastandards.org/standard.asp?Subje
  ctsocGradeWHStandard10
• http//www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/timeline/ww2
  time.htm

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The End

• Thank you for your time.