World War II

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By: Ms. Susan M. Pojer Horace Greeley H. S. Chappaqua, NY

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World War II. By: Ms. Susan M. Pojer Horace Greeley H. S. Chappaqua, NY. Horrors of the Holocaust Exposed. Horrors of the Holocaust Exposed. Entrance to Auschwitz: Work Makes You Free. Crematoria at Majdanek. Horrors of the Holocaust Exposed. Eli Wiesel. Slave Labor at Buchenwald. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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By: Ms. Susan M. PojerHorace Greeley H. S. Chappaqua,

NY

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Horrors of the Holocaust Exposed

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Crematoria at

Majdanek

Entrance to Auschwitz:

Work Makes You Free

Horrors of the Holocaust Exposed

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Horrors of the Holocaust Exposed

Slave Labor at Buchenwald

Eli Wiesel

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Horrors of the Holocaust Exposed

Mass Graves at Bergen-Belsen

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Hitler’s “Secret Weapons”:

Too Little, Too Late!V-1 Rocket:

“Buzz Bomb”

V-2 Rocket

Werner von Braun

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Hitler Commits Suicide April 30, 1945

The Führer’s Bunker

Cyanide & Pistols

Mr. & Mrs. Hitler

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V-E Day (May 8, 1945)

General Keitel

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V-E Day (May 8, 1945)

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The Code Breakers of WW II

Bletchley Park

The German “Enigma” Machine

The Japanese “Purple”

[naval] Code Machine

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Pearl Harbor

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Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto

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Pearl Harbor from the Cockpit of a Japanese Pilot

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Pearl Harbor - Dec. 7, 1941

A date which will live in infamy!

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President Roosevelt Signs the US Declaration of War

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USS Arizona, Pearl Harbor

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Pearl Harbor Memorial

2,887 Americans Dead!

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Pacific Theater of Operations

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“Tokyo Rose”

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Paying for the War

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Paying for the War

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Paying for the War

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Betty Grable: Allied Pinup Girl

She Reminded Men What They Were Fighting For

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Singapore Surrenders[February, 1942]

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U.S. Surrenders at Corregidor,

the Philippines [March, 1942]

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Bataan Death March: April, 1942

76,000 prisoners [12,000 Americans] Marched 60 miles in the blazing heat to

POW camps in the Philippines.

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Bataan: British Soldiers

A Liberated British

POW

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The Burma Campaign

The “Burma Road”

General Stilwell Leaving Burma,

1942

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Allied Counter-Offensive:“Island-Hopping”

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“Island-Hopping”: US Troops on Kwajalien Island

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Farthest Extent of Japanese Conquests

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Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle:First U. S. Raids on Tokyo, 1942

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Battle of the Coral Sea:May 7-8, 1942

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Battle of Midway Island:June 4-6, 1942

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Battle of Midway Island:June 4-6, 1942

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Japanese Kamikaze Planes:

The Scourge of the South Pacific

Kamikaze Pilots

Suicide Bombers

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Gen. MacArthur “Returns” to the

Philippines! [1944]

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US Marines on Mt. Surbachi,

Iwo Jima [Feb. 19, 1945]

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Potsdam Conference:July, 1945

y FDR dead, Churchill out of office as Prime Minister during conference.

y Stalin only original.y The United States

has the A-bomb.y Allies agree Germany

is to be divided into occupation zones

y Poland moved around to suit the Soviets.

P.M. Clement President Joseph Atlee Truman Stalin