WORLD WAR II

World War II
• World war II also known as
the second world war, was a
global war that lasted from
1939 to 1945.
• Nearly every country was
involved in this war from
USA till Japan. So that’s why
it was a world war.
 WHAT TRIGGERED WW2
• WW2 started when Nazi Germany invaded
Poland.
• After that , France and Britain declared war on
Nazi Germany.
 THE TWO ALLIANCES OF WW2
• The WW2 included two opposite alliances :
• AXIS POWERS : Germany Italy Japan Hungary
Romania Bulgaria
• ALLIES : U.S Britain France USSR Australia
Belgium Brazil Canada China Denmark Greece
Netherlands New Zealand Norway Poland
South Africa Yugoslavia.
 AXIS POWER
• On September 27 1940
Nazi Germany Italy and
Japan signed the
tripartite pact to form
the axis power.
• The axis leaders were
Adolf Hitler (Germany)
Benito Mussolini (Italy)
and Emperor Hirohito
(Japan).
 ALLIED POWERS
• Allied powers in WW2 was (US, Britain, France,
Soviet Union, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada,
China, Denmark, Greece, Netherlands, New
Zealand, Norway, Poland, South Africa,
Yugoslavia.
• The main allied powers were Great Britain, The
United States, and The Soviet Union.
• The leaders of the Allies were Franklin Roosevelt(
The United States ) Winston Churchill (Great
Britain) and Joseph Stalin (The Soviet Union)
 MAIN BATTLES IN WW2
• Battle of Britain 1940
• Battle of France 1940
• Battle of Moscow 1941-1942
• Battle of Stalingrad 1942-1943
• Battle of Berlin 1945
 ENDING OF WW2
• On 8th may 1945 the allies accepted Germany’s
surrender, about a week after Adolf Hitler had
committed suicide. VE Day – Victory in Europe
celebrates the end of the second world war on 8
May 1945.
• The surrender of the Empire of Japan was
announced by Imperial Japan on August 15 and
formally signed on 2 September 1945 after the
USA dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and
Nagasaki on 8 August 1945.
Winston Churchill on VE Day
The Atomic Bomb exploding and
the aftermath in Hiroshima
 OUTCOMES OF WW2
• Germany was divided into four parts. Part for
the USA, part for the UK, part for the Soviet
Union and part for France.
• Europe was divided into two parts
free countries(west)
communist countries(east)
 ECONOMIC OUTCOMES OF WW2
• Due to men absence for fighting, women took
their place in manufacturing. Rosie the riveter
was an icon representing the 6 mil women
working in the USA.
• Capitalism spread wide in Europe after the Soviet
invasion.
• At the end of the war, millions of people were
homeless, the European economy had collapsed,
and much of the industrial infrastructure had
been destroyed.
 FACTS ABOUT WW2
• 80% of soviet males born in 1923 didn’t
survive world war 2.
• Between 1939 and 1945 the allies dropped 3.4
million tonnes of bombs, an average of about
27,700 tonnes of bombs each month.
• Germany lost 40-45 % of their aircraft during
the world war 2.
• 84 German Generals were executed by Hitler.