World War II

• World War II started in 1939• It was between Germany, Italy, Japan and “The Allies”

History of WW II

• Germany and Slovakia attacked Poland.• That was the start of the war in Europe.

• Japan attacked China.• That was the start of the war in Asia.

USA was not in the War at First

• The USA did note enter until 1941 after Japan attacked them

• They fought In North Africa, Europe and the Pacific • They used battleships, guns, war planes and 2 atomic bombs

USA enters the War with the Allies

• The Allies invaded Normandy in 1944 (called D-Day)• Germany surrendered in 1945

End of WW II in Europe

• The war ended in the Pacific after the USA bombed Japan with an atomic bomb in Hiroshima and Nagaski

End of War in the World

• The National World War II museum is in New Orleans, LA• We learned that “World War II “was the deadliest and most destructive war in history” with more than 60,000,000 million people killed. 45 million of the people killed were not soldiers,

they were normal citizens like you and me.

The Deadliest War Ever