WWII Theater Maps

World War II Theaters

The Allies & Axis Powers converted to total war for the second time in 20 years.

World War II was a two “theater” war with fighting taking place in Europe & in the Pacific.

The European Theater

In 1939, Hitler ordered the German military to attack Poland; the Allied Powers could no longer ignore his blantant violations of the Treaty of Versailles. The Allies & Axis Powers converted to total war for the second time in 20 years.

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The percentage of German casualties during WWII

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The Japanese dominated Asia, crippled the U.S. navy after the Pearl Harbor attack, & seized most Western colonies in the Pacific The problem for the Allies was the time & troops it would cost to retake the thousands of islands the Japanese controlled in the Pacific The U.S. developed an island-hopping strategy to skip the heavily defended islands & seize islands close to Japan

The Pacific Theater

The Pacific war revealed a new kind of fighting by using aircraft carriers

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In 1935, Mussolini invaded and attacked Ethiopia, taking control of the Suez Canal from Great Britian. The Axis Powers then took control of Northern Africa. In 1942, The Allies defeated Germany at the Battle of El Alamein & then pushed the Axis Powers out of Africa. American & British troops invaded Italy, took Sicily in 1943, seized Rome in 1944.In 1945, Mussolini was captured & executed by the Italian resistance.

Italian Aggression

In 1941, the United States cut off sales of iron & oil with the Japanese. Japan interpreted the embargo as interfering with their right to expand On December 7th, 1941, the Japaneed Air Force attacked the U.S. Naval Base of Pearl Harbor. This surprise attack officially brought America into WWII.

The Holocaust was the systematic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of approximately six million Jews (and other groups) by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. The Nazi Government forced Jews and other groups (Gypsies, Slavs, mentally &physically disabled) into concentration work camps and then later death camps.

When World War II began, Germany used a “lightning war” strategy called blitzkrieg that relied on fast, strong attacks using air raids, artillery, & tanks

By 1944, the Allies decided to open a Western Front by invading Nazi-occupied France. Operation Overlord (called D-Day) in June 1944 was the largest land & sea attack in history. This allowed the Allies to push towards Germany from the West, forcing Hitler to fight a two-front war.

In 1939, Hitler demanded that western Poland be returned to Germany but he did not want to provoke a war with the Soviet Union. Stalin & Hitler agreed to the Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact, promising never to attack each other.

Nazi- Soviet Relations

In 1941, Hitler broke the Nazi-Soviet Pact & invaded the Soviet Union.

By 1940, Germany conquered Poland, Denmark, Norway, Netherlands, Belgium, & France.In 1940, Italian & German troops moved to take control of North Africa. Meanwhile, Hitler took control of the Balkans.By 1942, the Axis Powers controlled most of Europe & North Africa but were unable to defeat Britain & the USSR

German Aggression

Despite losing control of the Pacific & withstanding firebomb attacks, Japan refused to surrender. When Japan refused to surrender, Truman ordered the bombing of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. After 3 days, Japan did not surrender so a 2nd atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki.

• The Phillipines
• Guam
• Iwo Jima
• Okinawa

The turning point in the war in the Pacific came at the Battle of Midway.After Midway, the Allies began to regain islands controlled by Japan. From 1943 to 1945, the Allies took back multiple islands & were moving in on Japan

American Aggression

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When France fell to the Nazis, Britain was the only nation at war with Germany. In 1940, Germany began a massive bombing campaign using its air force called the Battle of Britain.The British air force fought German planes aided by radar & the ability to crack German codes After 8 months, Hitler called off the attacks & focused on Eastern Europe. This showed the Allied Poowers Hilter was able to be beaten.

The Battle of Britian

Winston Churchill was elected Prime Minister in 1940. He served as Prime Minister until the end of the war in 1945.

Japan did not play by traditional rules in war “Kamikaze” pilots flew planes into battleships & aircraft carriers Japanese soldiers refused to surrender & tortured Allied prisoners of war

Japanese War Styles

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