World War II Fast Facts from the Pages

World War II • Fast Facts from the Pages of US History and the Internet • Chapters 24, 25

Adolf Hitler

Stuka Dive Bomber Germany

“Phony War” • Phase of World War II • Poland conquered • France waits • Blitzkrieg • France falls

Panzer Germany

Charles De. Gaulle French

Operation Sealion

Operation Barbarossa • June 22. Operation BARBAROSSA begins. Over 3 million German soldiers and 3300 tanks cross the Russian border. The Wehrmarcht (German Army) is organized into three Army Groups. Facing them is the world's largest army comprised of 230 divisions of 14, 000 men each, with 20, 000 tanks (many obsolete. ) The Russian Army is organized into four Military Districts.

American First Party • • Charles Lindbergh speaking at an American First Rally (Picture supplied by Joseph Morabito)

Pearl Harbor How many ships?

US Naval leaders Chester Nimitz/ “Bull”W. Halsey

USS Nimitz

Desert Fox Erwin Rommel

Operation Torch North Africa

Operation Overlord D-Day June 6 th, 1944

D-Day

Normandy 9000 died the first day

Final Tribute

Benito Mussolini ousted 1943 Killed 1945

US Planes P-51/P-47 Thunderbolt

War-time summits

Haile Selassie Ethopia

D-Day • On June 6, 1944 two thousand seven hundred ships showed up off the coast of France O. K. We'll go. Within hours an armada of 3, 000 landing craft, 2, 500 other ships, and 500 naval vessels--escorts and bombardment ships 13, 000 aircraft that would support D-Day.

Tuskegee Airmen Lone Eagles

George C. Marshall

Kamikaze

“Divine Wind” USS Essex

George S. Patton

Omar N. Bradley • Know by his troops in World War II as "The Soldier's General" because of his care of and compassion for those soldiers under his command

Bradley fighting vehicle

General Dwight D. Eisenhower Supreme Allied commander

Ernie Pyle

General Douglas Mac. Arthur

Iwo Jima

Joe Rosenthal Photographer

“Island Hopping”

“Battle of the Bulge”

The Sullivan Brothers

Navajo code-talkers

Home-front “Rosie the Riveter”

Flags flown for those in the Military

Gold Star Mothers

Nuremberg Trials

Nazis on trial

Manhattan project-U. S. government research project (1942– 45) that produced the first atomic bombs.

Hiroshima

Nagasaki

Surrender War Ends

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