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World War II

This comprehensive overview of World War II explores pivotal events from the Yalta Conference in February 1945, where Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin discussed post-war Europe, to the horrifying revelations of the Holocaust and the use of atomic bombs on Japan. The conflict reshaped the global landscape, leading to the emergence of the U.S. and U.S.S.R. as superpowers, the division of Germany, and the establishment of the United Nations. The aftermath triggered decolonization and laid the groundwork for modern geopolitics.

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World War II

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  1. World War II By: Ms. Susan M. PojerHorace Greeley H. S. Chappaqua, NY

  2. The “Big Three” Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt, Joseph Stalin

  3. Yalta: 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’.

  4. Mussolini & His Mistress,Claretta Petacci Are Hung in Milan, 1945

  5. Horrors of the Holocaust Exposed

  6. Horrors of the Holocaust Exposed Entrance to Auschwitz:Work Makes You Free Crematoria at Majdanek

  7. Horrors of the Holocaust Exposed Eli Wiesel Slave Labor at Buchenwald

  8. Horrors of the Holocaust Exposed Mass Graves at Bergen-Belsen

  9. Hitler’s “Secret Weapons”:Too Little, Too Late! V-1 Rocket:“Buzz Bomb” V-2 Rocket Werner von Braun

  10. Hitler Commits Suicide April 30, 1945 Cyanide & Pistols The Führer’s Bunker Mr. & Mrs. Hitler

  11. V-E Day (May 8, 1945) General Keitel

  12. V-E Day (May 8, 1945)

  13. V-E DAY, MAY 7, 1945

  14. V-J Day in Times Square,NYC

  15. The Code Breakers of WW II The Japanese “Purple” [naval] Code Machine Bletchley Park The German “Enigma” Machine

  16. The Beginning of theAtomic Age

  17. Nagasaki – August 9, 1945 • 40,000 killed immediately. • 60,000 injured. • 100,000s died ofradiation poisoning& cancer later.

  18. Japanese A-Bomb Survivors

  19. Hiroshima Memorials

  20. V-J Day (September 2, 1945)

  21. Results of World War II

  22. WW II Casualties: Europe Each symbol indicates 100,000 dead in the appropriate theater of operations

  23. WW II Casualties: Asia Each symbol indicates 100,000 dead in the appropriate theater of operations

  24. WW II Casualties • Civilians only. • Army and navy figures. • Figures cover period July 7, 1937 to Sept. 2, 1945, and concern only Chinese regular troops. They do not include casualties suffered by guerrillas and local military corps. • Deaths from all causes. • Against Soviet Russia; 385,847 against Nazi Germany. • Against Soviet Russia; 169,822against Nazi Germany. • National Defense Ctr., CanadianForces Hq., Director of History.

  25. Massive Human Dislocations

  26. The U.S. & the U.S.S.R. Emerged as the Two Superpowers of the later 20c

  27. The Bi-Polarization of Europe: The Beginning of the Cold War

  28. The Division of Germany:1945 - 1990

  29. The Creation of the U. N.

  30. The Nuremberg War Trials:Crimes Against Humanity

  31. The Race for Space

  32. Early Computer Technology Came Out of WW II Colossus, 1941 Mark I, 1944 Admiral Grace Hooper, 1944-1992COBOL language

  33. The Emergence of Third World Nationalist Movements

  34. The De-Colonization of European Empires

  35. The World We Live In Today Was Formed By The Events Of World War II & Its Immediate Aftermath!

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