World War 2 was the largest war in history, involving most nations around the world. The Axis powers of Germany, Italy, and Japan fought against the Allied nations of France, Britain, the United States, and others. Key events included Germany's aggression in Europe starting in the late 1930s by remilitarizing, annexing Austria and Czechoslovakia, and invading Poland in 1939. Japan later attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941, bringing the US into the war. The Allies launched D-Day in 1944 and dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 before Germany and Japan surrendered, ending the massive global conflict.

1. By:
Elias De Leon

2.  The largest war in history
 Included most of the nations in the world
 Axis powers:
1. Germany
2. Italy
3. Japan
 Allied Nations:
1. France
2. Great Britain
3. United States of America
4. The rest of the world

3.  1930’s USSR established as military power
 1933 – Adolf Hitler rised as Chancellor in Germany
 1939 – Germany’s remilitarization
 1936 – reclaimed the Rhineland from French control
 1938 – Austria was annexed to the Nazi Reich
 1938 – Germany took over the Czech Sudetenland
 1939 – Bohemia and Moravia

4.  German demand the return of Danzig and part of the
Polish ‘corridor’ granted to Poland from German
territory in the Versailles Treaty of 1919.
 Poland refused, on 1 September 1939 German forces
launched the Polish campaign and Poland was
defeated in three weeks.
 In March 1939 Britain and France restablished Polish
sovereignty. German forces withdraw.
 3 September Britain and Francedeclared war on
Germany.

5. Battles
USA neutrality

6. 1941 – Pearl Harbour attack

7. June 6, 1944 – Allied invasion

8. The only time in history that nuclear bombs were been dropped
August 6, 1945 – Hiroshima
August 9, 1945 - Nagasaki

9. Costs
The post-war
Cold War