WWII and Aftermath

Harry Yao and Adesh Dasani

Who• Allies against the axis: British,

Americans, French, Poles, Brazilians, Canadians, Indians, and British and French African, Soviet Union (Russia).• Axis: Germany, Hungary, Austria, Italy.

The European Theater

1939 to 1945The countries

in war are:

Allies:Soviet UnionGreat BritainUnited StatesFrancePoland

Axis:ItalyGermanyAustria

What Happened?A Time line(1939-1942) before D-Day

!939 Sep. 1Germany Invades Poland.

1939 Sep.3Great Britain, and France declare war on Germany .

1939 Nov. 30Soviet forces invade Finland. Starting the winter war. It ended in the defeat of Finland in March

30,19401940 April 9

Germany invades Norway and Denmark.1940 June 10

In Italy, Mussolini declares war on Great Britain and France. 1940 June 22

Hitler signs an armistice with France at Compiegne.1940 Sep. 7

Luftwaffe begin nightly bombing of London.1940 September 27

The Tripartite Pact is signed by Japan, Italy, and Germany, formalizing the Axis alliance1941 Oct. 2

German forces launch Operation Typhoon.1941 December 7Japanese planes attack the U.S. Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii; the following day the United States

declares war on Japan and enters World War II. 1942 May 12

A Soviet counterattack against the Germans at Kharkov.1942 June 28

The Germans launch Operation Blue in the Soviet Union, pressing forward on the eastern front.

D-Day

June 6 1944The Invasion begins.

Over 150,000 allied troops landed on a 50 mile starch of beach, Normandy, France.

Utah, Omaha- is being raided by U.SGold, Sword-is being raided by Great BritainJuno-Is being raided by Canada

North Africa

ONLY land based fighting before the invasion of Sisley.

After D-Day

1944 Dec. 16 The Battle of the Bulge begins, it is a major German offensive.

German army was retreating, No one have expected this major counter offensive.

This offensive, which failed. Put the German army in a very bad position. This lead to the surrender of the Germany. The surrender documents were singed at Soviet Marshall Zhukov's headquarters in Berlin.

The Pacific theater

United States, Great Britain China Vs. Japan

The Battle for the Philippines, Bataan death march.

1941-1942The battle for the Philippines. The battle which the

United states lost.

After the surrender, Japanese force the prisoners to a prison camp called camp O’Dennell .

Battle for MidwayThe turning point of the pacific theater. Battle for a air strip in the midway island.

Japan had all most all of there air craft carrier fleets destroyed.

why did Japanese surrender?

1st The Weapon of mass distraction.

2nd Japan lost the island of Okinawa, which means us can bomb and have bomber escorts.

1945 sep 2. Japan sign surrender documents aboard the U.S. battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay

After WWII

WWII ended with great loses. WWII had reach havoc on the people of Germany, Italy, Great Britain, and Russia.

Because of the large amount of German attacking Soviet Union (Russia), she was able to build up a large army. One which would rival the United States.

German had also lost WWII, because of the engineering perfection they want to achieve. It is want cased there tanks to break down. But in the good hand, they have created the jet, and other technology.

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