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Hirohito

Tojo

1931 - Manchuria

1937 - China

1941 - Indochina

Vietnam

Cambodia

Laos

U.S. - trade embargo on oil

Victor Emmanuel III

Battles in Pacific

Yamamoto

Battle of Leyte Gulf

Japan lost 3 battleships, 4 aircraft carriers, 13 cruisers, 500 planes

Imperial Navy role is reduced

Hans Frank

slayer of the Poles

Battle of Coral Sea

May 1942

stopped the Japanese drive to Australia

airplanes fought the battle

Battle of Iwo Jima

most heavily defended

20,700 troops

only 200 survive

Battle of Midway

tried to take out Pacific fleet

turning point in Pacific theatre

Dec. 7, 1941

Pearl Harbor

180 war planes

6 aircraft carriers

Battle of Okinawa

April 1945

1900 kamikaze attacks

110,000 deaths

Battle of Guadalcanal

Island of Death

Japan's first defeat on land

Adolf Hitler

served in WWI

NAZI

1925 arrested

Mein Kamph

Aryans

lebensraum

kamikaze

Jozef Lipski

ambassador to Poland

1935 Invades Ethiopia

1933 pulled out of League of Nations

1935 military build up

1936 Rhineland

Rome Berlin Axis Pact

1938 Austria, Czechoslovakia,

Sudentenland

nonaggression pact with USSR

September 1, 1939

invasion of Poland

1940 Denmark, Norway, Netherlands,

Belgium, Luxembourg, France

Battle of Britain

August 1941 - naval battle with US

Operation Barbarossa

German offensive on USSR

Battle of the Bulge

last German offensive

May 8, 1945

VE DAy

Benito Mussolini

-Il Duce

-Fascism

Heinrich Himmler

head of SS

Mussolini was shot and killed by Soviets

1943 Victor Emmanuel III

strips Mussolini of power

-Hitler has him reinstated

Paul von Hindenburg

His body was hung in Milan Square for all to see

1942 - Hong Kong, Indochina,

Malayia, Burma, Thailand,

Dutch East Indies, Guam,

Wake Island, Solomon Islands

Atomic Bomb

Herman Goring

Lutwaffe

Rome Berlin Axis Pact

Nagasaki

August 9, 1945

"Fat Man"

The Final Solution

Mussolini tries to flee as

a German soldier

Hiroshima

August 6, 1945

Enola Gay

"Little Boy"

The Holocaust

Erwin Rommel

"desert fox"

genocide

Kristalnacht

"night of the broken glass"

Concentration Camps

September 2, 1945

VJ Day

Hirohito signs the unconditional

surrender on the USS Missouri

Italy

Freidrich Paulus

Battle of Stalingrad

Japan

Jozef Pilsudski

dictator of Poland

People of Germany

Germany

former deputy

Herman Goebels

minister of propaganda

The Axis Powers

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