Brief overview

A Brief Overview of the Second World War

The Origins of War ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],A picture of the young Chancellor c. 1928

Japan Strikes First ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Emperor Herohito surveying his troops from horseback C. 1920 A Japanese “Zero” fighter plane flying in formation  

Appeasement ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

War Breaks Out in Europe ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Europe just before Germany’s invasion of Poland The Maginot Line’s  anti-tank barriers

Vichy France ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

“ Finest Hour” -Sir Winston Churchill, June 18, 1940 ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

“ We Shall Fight on the Beaches” -Sir Winston Churchill, June 4, 1940 ,[object Object]

Battle of Britain (July, 1940) ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

“ The Few” - Sir Winston Churchill, August 20, 1940 ,[object Object],[object Object]

Factors of U.S. Involvement ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Pearl Harbor burns after Japanese attack U.S. routes of supply to Allied forces ,[object Object]

“ War Message” -FDR, December 8, 1941 ,[object Object]

1942: U.S. on the Defensive ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],The carrier Hiryu, one of Four Japanese carriers sunk off the coast of Midway ,[object Object],[object Object]

On the Home Front: 1942 ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],“ Rosie the Riveter”  advertisement  Government issued instructions for all Japanese-Americans to report to interment camps  ,[object Object],[object Object]

[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Joseph Stalin in 1950  Part of Stalingrad, destroyed and in German Hands  ,[object Object],[object Object],Operation Barbarossa

Einsatzgruppen ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

The Einsatzgruppen in Action in Poland

The War’s End in Europe 1944-1945 ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Looking out from a landing craft on the beaches of Normandy June6, 1944 German prisoners taken at the “Battle of the Bulge” ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

The War’s End in the Pacific 1944-1945 ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],U.S. Troops celebrating atop Mt. Suribachi, Iwo Jima General MacArthur signs Japan’s surrender, ending WWII ,[object Object],[object Object]

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