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Used with Permission from Ms. Susan M. Used with Permission from Ms. Susan M. PojerPojer
Horace Greeley H. S. Chappaqua, NYHorace Greeley H. S. Chappaqua, NY
Used with Permission from Ms. Susan M. Used with Permission from Ms. Susan M. PojerPojer
Horace Greeley H. S. Chappaqua, NYHorace Greeley H. S. Chappaqua, NY
Poland Attacked: Sept. 1, 1939
Poland Attacked: Sept. 1, 1939
Blitzkrieg [“Lightening War”]
German Troops March into Warsaw
German Troops March into Warsaw
Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis, 1940
Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis, 1940
The Tripartite Pact
European Theater of Operations
European Theater of Operations
The “Phoney War” Ends:
Spring, 1940
The “Phoney War” Ends:
Spring, 1940
Dunkirk EvacuatedJune 4, 1940
Dunkirk EvacuatedJune 4, 1940
France SurrendersJune, 1940
France SurrendersJune, 1940
A Divided FranceA Divided France
Henri Petain
The French ResistanceThe French Resistance
The Free French
General Charles DeGaulleThe Maquis
Now Britain Is All Alone!Now Britain Is All Alone!
Great Britain.........................$31 billionSoviet Union..........................$11 billionFrance..................................$3 billionChina..................................$1.5 billionOther European......................$500 millionSouth America.......................$400 million
The amount totaled: $48,601,365,000
U. S. Lend-Lease Act,1941
U. S. Lend-Lease Act,1941
Lend-LeaseLend-Lease
Battle of Britain:
The “Blitz”
Battle of Britain:
The “Blitz”
Battle of Britain:The “Blitz”
Battle of Britain:The “Blitz”
The London “Tube”:Air Raid Shelters during the
Blitz
The London “Tube”:Air Raid Shelters during the
Blitz
The Royal Air ForceThe Royal Air Force
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill
The Atlantic CharterThe Atlantic Charter Roosevelt and
Churchill sign treaty of friendship in August 1941.
Solidifies alliance.
Fashioned after Wilson’s 14 Points.
Calls for League of Nations type organization.
Operation Barbarossa:Hitler’s Biggest MistakeOperation Barbarossa:
Hitler’s Biggest Mistake
Operation Barbarossa: June 22, 1941
Operation Barbarossa: June 22, 1941
3,000,000 German soldiers.
3,400 tanks.
Axis Powers in 1942Axis Powers in 1942
Battle of Stalingrad:Winter of 1942-1943
Battle of Stalingrad:Winter of 1942-1943
German Army Russian Army1,011,500 men 1,000,500 men
10,290 artillery guns
13,541 artillery guns
675 tanks 894 tanks
1,216 planes 1,115 planes
The North Africa Campaign:
The Battle of El Alamein, 1942
The North Africa Campaign:
The Battle of El Alamein, 1942 Gen. Ernst
Rommel,The “Desert Fox”
Gen. Bernard Law
Montgomery(“Monty”)
The Italian Campaign [“Operation Torch”] :
Europe’s “Soft Underbelly”
The Italian Campaign [“Operation Torch”] :
Europe’s “Soft Underbelly” Allies plan
assault on weakest Axis area - North Africa - Nov. 1942-May 1943
George S. Patton leads American troops
Germans trapped in Tunisia - surrender over 275,000 troops.
The Battle for Sicily: June, 1943
The Battle for Sicily: June, 1943
General George S. Patton
George C. Scott Playing General Patton in the 1968 Movie, “Patton”
George C. Scott Playing General Patton in the 1968 Movie, “Patton”
The Battle of Monte Casino:February, 1944
The Battle of Monte Casino:February, 1944
The Allies Liberate Rome:June 5, 1944
The Allies Liberate Rome:June 5, 1944
Gen. Eisenhower Gives the Orders for D-Day [“Operation
Overlord”]
Gen. Eisenhower Gives the Orders for D-Day [“Operation
Overlord”]
D-Day (June 6, 1944)D-Day (June 6, 1944)
Normandy Landing
(June 6, 1944)
Normandy Landing
(June 6, 1944)
Higgins Landing Crafts
German Prisoners
July 20, 1944 Assassination Plot
July 20, 1944 Assassination Plot
Major Claus von
Stauffenberg
July 20, 1944 Assassination Plot
July 20, 1944 Assassination Plot
1. Adolf Hitler 2. Field Marshall Wilhelm Keitel 3. Gen Alfred von Jodl 4. Gen Walter Warlimont 5. Franz von Sonnleithner 6. Maj Herbert Buchs 7. Stenographer Heinz Buchholz 8. Lt Gen Hermann Fegelein 9. Col Nikolaus von Below10. Rear Adm Hans-Erich Voss11. Otto Gunsche, Hitler's adjutant12. Gen Walter Scherff (injured)13. Gen Ernst John von Freyend14. Capt Heinz Assman (injured)
TThe Liberation of Paris:August 25, 1944TThe Liberation of Paris:August 25, 1944
De Gaulle in Triumph!
U. S. Troops in Paris, 1944
U. S. Troops in Paris, 1944
French Female Collaborators
French Female Collaborators
The Battle of the Bulge:Hitler’s Last Offensive
The Battle of the Bulge:Hitler’s Last Offensive
Dec. 16, 1944to
Jan. 28, 1945
Yalta: February, 1945Yalta: February, 1945 FDR wants quick Soviet entry into
Pacific war. FDR & Churchill concede Stalin
needs buffer, FDR & Stalin want spheres of influence and a weak Germany.
Churchill wants strong Germany as bufferagainst Stalin.
FDR argues for a ‘United Nations’.
Mussolini & His Mistress,
Claretta Petacci
Are Hung in Milan, 1945
Mussolini & His Mistress,
Claretta Petacci
Are Hung in Milan, 1945
US & Russian Soldiers Meet at the Elbe River:
April 25, 1945
US & Russian Soldiers Meet at the Elbe River:
April 25, 1945
Horrors of the Holocaust Exposed
Horrors of the Holocaust Exposed
Crematoria at
Majdanek
Entrance to Auschwitz:
Work Makes You Free
Horrors of the Holocaust Exposed
Horrors of the Holocaust Exposed
Horrors of the Holocaust Exposed
Horrors of the Holocaust Exposed
Slave Labor at Buchenwald
Eli Wiesel
Horrors of the Holocaust Exposed
Horrors of the Holocaust Exposed
Mass Graves at Bergen-Belsen
Hitler’s “Secret Weapons”:
Too Little, Too Late!
Hitler’s “Secret Weapons”:
Too Little, Too Late!V-1 Rocket:
“Buzz Bomb”
V-2 Rocket
Werner von Braun
Hitler Commits Suicide April 30, 1945
Hitler Commits Suicide April 30, 1945
The Führer’s Bunker
Cyanide & Pistols
Mr. & Mrs. Hitler
V-E Day (May 8, 1945)V-E Day (May 8, 1945)
General Keitel
V-E Day (May 8, 1945)V-E Day (May 8, 1945)
The Code Breakers of WW II
The Code Breakers of WW II
Bletchley Park
The German “Enigma” Machine
The Japanese “Purple”
[naval] Code Machine
The Man Who Never Was*Based on Operation Mincement
– A successful deception plan to cover the invasion of Sicily
*Nonfiction 1953 book by Ewan Montagu made into film of same name in 1956
*Nonfiction 1953 book by Ewan Montagu made into film of same name in 1956
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