1. Chapter 16-17 World War II (1939-44) 50 Countries, 6 Years, 40-60 Million Deaths

4. Dictators

14. built autobahn (1st freeway)

29. Phillipe Petain Vichy France France Charles De Gaulle France

30. Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain 1937-1940 Winston Churchill 1940-1945 & 1951-1955

32. London Blitz

41. Invasion of Italy, July 1943

42. Mussolini’s govern. defeated Mussolini and mistress killed by Italians

43. President Roosevelt Admiral Nimitz General MacArthur General Eisenhower Europe Pacific

50. within a few months France is liberated

53. The Holocaust Genocide – deliberate and systemic killing of an entire population

58. St. Louis

59. "We are going to Poland to strike at the Jews."

67. Jews would be sent to camps by train

73. Fences were electrically charged

75. They began to cremate the bodies

76. Six Million died in the death camps

82. Made German people view the work of their guards

85. Allies capture Berlin April, 1945

86. Hitler commits suicide

87. Americans link with Russians at the Elbe River

91. The Pacific War

93. Hideki Tojo militarists disliked democracy restore the bushido Code (samurai Warrior Code) terrorized/murdered opposition Emperor Hirohito becomes a powerless figurehead Japan 1920-1945

95. China Chiang Kai Shek Leader of China 1928-1949

100. USS Arizona

102. America abandons neutrality and joins the war

104. Leyte Gulf….MacArthur fulfills his promise and returns…

117. Chester Nimitz

132. I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. J. Robert Oppenheimer

141. Enola Gay, PLANE THAT DROPPED THE BOMB

142. Three Days later – drops bomb on Nagasawki

144. Sept. 2, 1945 Japan surrenders on deck of the U.S. warship USS Missouri

145. VJ DAY, AUGUST 14, 1945 WORLD WAR II ENDS

147. WWII and the Homefront

159. Great Migration, part II (1940-1950)

165. Not allowed to take major possessions

169. WW II Memorial in Washington DC Dedicated on April 29, ______