1. Battle of Britain: The “Blitz”

2. German air raids on Britain, 1940.
(Photo credits: The History Place)
British children wait in a bomb shelter during Hitler's air raids, 1940.
(Photo credit: Library of Congress and The History Place)

3. The London “Tube”: Air Raid Shelters during the Blitz

4. U. S. Lend-Lease Act, 1941
Great Britain $31 billion Soviet Union $11 billion France $3 billion China $1.5 billion Other European $500 million South America $400 million The amount totaled: $48,601,365,000

5. Lend-Lease

6. The Atlantic Charter
Roosevelt and Churchill sign treaty of friendship in August 1941.
Solidifies alliance.
Fashioned after Wilson’s 14 Points.
Calls for League of Nations type organization.
U.S. in undeclared war w/Hitler after German u-boat fires on U.S. destroyer

7. Mussolini Declares War on France & Great Britain
Italy started out neutral
Declared war when Hitler took France
Attacked British-controlled Egypt in 1940

8. The North Africa Campaign: The Battle of El Alamein, 1942
Gen. Erwin Rommel, The “Desert Fox”
Gen. Bernard Law Montgomery (“Monty”)

9. Hitler Takes the Balkans

10. Operation Barbarossa: Hitler Invades USSR
June 22, 1941

11. Battle of Stalingrad: Winter of 1942-1943
German Army
Russian Army
1,011,500 men
1,000,500 men
10,290 artillery guns
13,541 artillery guns
675 tanks
894 tanks
1,216 planes
1,115 planes

12. Japan’s Pacific Campaign
U.S. aware of Japan’s plan to conquer SE Asia
U.S. gov’t sent aid to strengthen Chinese resistance
When Japanese overran French Indochina, U.S. cut off oil shipments to Japan

13. Pearl Harbor – Dec. 7, 1941 “The day that will live in infamy” ~ FDR

14. The “Big Three” (Allied Powers)
Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt, Joseph Stalin

15. Axis Powers in 1942

16. Japanese Victories Hong Kong, Guam, Wake Island
Philippines & Bataan peninsula
Malay Peninsula, Indonesia, Burma

17. Allies Strike Back
April 1942 – Lt. Col. James Doolittle led bombing raid on Tokyo
Battle of Coral Sea – new form of naval warfare
Airplanes took off from aircraft carriers
Battle of Midway – huge victory for Allies

18. Battle of Guadalcanal
General Douglas MacArthur commanded Allied forces in the Pacific
Wanted to “island-hop” past Japanese strongholds
Japanese building air base on Guadalcanal
Aug. 7, 1941  U.S. Marines landed on Guadalcanal
Japanese forced to abandon “the Island of Death”