V Japanese expansion in Asia

V Fascist movements in Europe

V Germany withdrew from The League of
Nations
V 1935 Mussolini attacked Ethiopia
V Fascism gained support in Spain and caused
civil war.
V Japan invades China
V Japanese invasion of the Soviet Union and
Mongolia
V The invasion was September 1st 1939
V Attack was quick and without warning
V Poland land was split between Germany and
the Soviet Union
V Soviet territory annexed by Germany
V ˜itler soon invaded Denmark and Norway on
April 4th 1940.
V This was important because the Germans
needed access to Swedish iron ore, which was
very important for the German
armaments industry because It
allowed for them to produce
more weapons.
V °n May 10T˜ 1940 ˜itler launched attacks on
˜olland and Belgium followed by France on
may 12th Paris was captured on June 14th .
V ˜itler·s army captured more land than
Germany captured in all of world war 1.
V Using Blitzkrieg tactics ˜itler·s victories were
very fast
V ˜e reached the English channel in six days of
his attack and this left only Dunkirk in Brittish
hands.
V Britain now was alone in a fight against Germany.
V Battle of Britain began July 1940, this was the first
time that Nazi Germany had failed to claim a
territory.
V There was strong
Resistance from
the air which
proved vital in
the defense of
Britian
V The introduction of Italy into the war led to
Conflict in the Balkans, Mediterranean and
North Africa
V Mussolini did not win many battles and soon
lost these territories.
V Mussolini·s losses brought ˜itler into both
North Africa and the Balkans
V These campaigns were a severe setback for
allies costing them both time and money
V ˜itler turned on Russia and °peration
Barbarossa was his attack on their soil in 3
directions North towards Leningrad, in the
center towards Moscow and in the south
towards Ukraine.
V The operation
started on June 22nd
1941.
V In 1942 Britain decided to attack northern
Africa
V Rommel·s forces were defeated in °ctober of
1942
V Important Because:

- Prevented Egypt and Suez canal from falling to

˜itler
- Gave Allies experience in large scale seaborne
offensives
- It provided a launching point for the next target
of the allies: Italy
V The invasion of France was codenamed
°peration °verlord
V 326,000 British, American and Canadian troops
on an 80 kilometer stretch of land in Normandy
V D-Day June 6th 1944
V Led to fall of Germany in the hands of Allied
forces on May 7th 1945.
V The Russians were the first to arrive in Berlin in
1945 followed by other allied troops.
V The allies attacked Italy on July 10th 1943 and
within 6 weeks they captured Sicily. this
caused the downfall of Mussolini, who was
dismissed by the Italian king
V In °ctober the rest of Italy was captured
V Mussolini·s successor, Marshal Pietro Badoglio,
signed an armistice that joined Italy with the
allies
V Rome was captured June 1944 and northern
Italy came under allied control in April 1945
V Attack took place December 7th 1941
V Seven of eight battleships were sunk or damaged
V 2,403 Americans died during attack
V Japan lost 55 men
V Japan attacked because they wanted to neutralize American
power in the western Pacific
V Japan attacked Guam, ˜ong Kong, Malaya, Midway Island the
Philippines, and Wake Island the same day.
V U.S. declared war on Japan after the attacks on
pearl harbor followed by Germany declaring
war on The U.S.
V Japan Then sunk British Ships in Singapore and
invaded Burma.
V Japanese troops then invaded the dutch east
indies on January 6th 1942
V By mid 1942 Japanese successfully captured the
Dutch East Indies, The Philippians and Burma
V They labeled this vast Empire the Greater East
India Co-Prosperity Sphere.
V April 1942 American planes bombed Tokyo
V In May the U.S. Navy defeated Japanese fleet in
the Coral Sea
V Ended Japanese plans to conquer Australia
V During Battle of Midway Japan lost 4 of its 6
aircraft carriers
V Did not have enough industry to replace them
V Pacific °cean aircraft carriers held key to
victory
V Japan faced long hopeless war.
V August 6th 1945 the U.S. dropped atomic bomb on ˜iroshima.
V Killed 80,000 people instantly
V Another atomic bomb destroyed Nagasaki
V August 14th Japan offered to surrender
V September 1945 Japans leaders officially surrendered
V Winston Churchill
V Franklin D. Roosevelt
V Joseph Stalin
V Adolf ˜itler
V Benito Mussolini
V Emperor ˜irohito
ALLIES AXIS
V Soviet Union V Germany
V U.S. V Japan
V British Empire V Italy
V China
V ˜ungary
V France
V Poland V Romania
V Canada V Bulgaria
V Australia
V New Zealand
V South Africa
V Yugoslavia
V Netherlands
V Belgium
V Greece
V Tanks
V Aircraft

V Battleships

V Submarines

V Kamikaze Pilots

-would attempt to crash aircraft into enemy ships

V Machine Guns

- MG42 Machine Gun ´˜itler·s Buzz Sawµ

V Nazi program to kill people they considered undesirable.
V 6 million Jews perished
V Jews, Polish Catholics, ˜omosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses,
Disabled, Mentally Ill, Gypsies, Communists, Socialists were
persecuted
V People sent to ghettos, concentration and execution camps.
V Germany was defeated Nazis brought down
V Japan in ruins from bombing
V England also in ruins. Economy depended on
recovery aid from the U.S.
V U.S. and Soviet Union became super powers
V U.S. economy stimulated by the war
V Depression came to an end
V Technological progress made
V I did all everything and added a slide called
war in the east that summarizes whatt happens
between pearl harbor and midway