WORLD WAR II

Hitler's Conquests in Europe
Poland
	-blitzkrieg
Fall of France (1940)
	-Maginot Line
Dunkirk evacuation
Battle of Britain

Hitler's Conquests in Europe con�t
The Balkans and Greece (1941)
Operation Barbarossa
Siege of Leningrad and Stalingrad 

US involvement
Background
Lend-Lease 1940-41
Opposition to Japanese expansion
Pearl Harbor (Dec 7, 1941)

Japanese conquests 1941-1942
Oil of Dutch East Indies
Malaya, Burma and Indochina
The Philippines

Industrial mobilization for total war
Allied wins (1942-44)
African campaign
Invasion of Italy
Fall of Mussolini
	-by July 4, 1944 Allies liberate Rome

The war at sea and air
Destruction of German subs
War in the Pacific
	-Battle of Midway and Coral Sea
	-island hoping
Air warfare
Allied wins (1942-45)
Soviet victories
Normandy 
Allies meet in Germany

The Pacific War (1942-1945)
Guadalcanal
Philippines
Iwo Jima and Okinawa
Raid on Tokyo

The Atomic bombs
Plans for assault on Japan
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Japanese surrender

Why the Allies won
US industrial capacity
Inspirational leadership
USSR blood
German invasion of USSR

Aftermath
60 million people dead
Destruction of European Judaism
Huge #s of displaced persons
Division of Europe
Japanese economic growth
Nuclear war ends idea of total war