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#11 Hitler begins targeting British cities:

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#11 Hitler begins targeting British cities:

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As it became clear he wasn´t goimg to be able to destroy the Royal Air Force, Hitler switched strategies and began bombing British cities an event that became known as the Blitz. Thanks to the Bomb Sight Project you can see an interactive map of bombs dropped on London between October 7, 1940 and June 6, 1941. These attacks took a heavy toll, with as many as 43,000 British civilians killed and 139,000 injured. And those Londoners not directly touched by tragedy were profoundly affected by having to spend many long uncomfortable nights in bomb shelters.

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Operation Overlord was successful in the summer and fall of 1944. The Axis powers in Europe withdrew on all fronts and the Soviets took over parts of Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and the Balkan nations. This progress laid the foundation for the final advance on the homeland of Germany in 1945.

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First major Allied amphibious assault during World War II. It involved about 65,000 troops who landed at Casablanca, Algiers, and Oran on the French North Afric

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JOSE CASTILLO                              The Allies retake Europe and Africa 

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JOSE CASTILLO                              The Allies retake Europe and Africa 

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Although U.S. planners had favored a direct assault on Europe, the British argued that this was too risky given the limited forces available. Operation Torch offered the opportunity to end the desert war and open the Mediterranean while trying to meet Joseph Stalin’s demands for a second front.

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the germans had launched 3000 rockets and because they launched them 7000 people died, many of the german scientists continued to create rockets for the american special program.

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8.France’s Maginot Line helped more than you think 

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8.France’s Maginot Line helped more than you think 

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the french were conscious of doing something about it before the war they had against Germany. so they created a wall covering the border between the two. Hitler realized that a frontal assault on the Line would be counterproductive and the Maginot wall made a good defense for the French.

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4) Japan and China were already at war in 1937

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4) Japan and China were already at war in 1937

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This map shows what the situation was like in 1940, the areas in red were under Japanese control and shows how tensions escalated into a major war. Japan established a puppet state called Manchukuo in Manchuria in 1932 and sent planes. The Japanese were never in control, but the Chinese could hardly win without the United States.

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Speaks of the U.S. and British enjoying a great strategic advantage they had in discovering the coded messages of their enemies and enjoyed similar success in deciphering Japanese codes. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, U.S. commander Dwight Eisenhower, and other observers gave these code-breaking efforts a significant share of the credit for winning the war. This map shows present-day Bletchley Park, which has been converted into a museum.

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24) The Soviet Union’s sacrifice dwarfed that of the Western allies

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24) The Soviet Union’s sacrifice dwarfed that of the Western allies

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This map is about the military deaths of the countries involved in World War II. France suffered 200,000 deaths, the Americans and the British each suffered about 400,000 deaths, the Soviets lost at least 8.6 million soldiers, about 90 percent of the Allies who died fighting the Nazis were Soviets.

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16) The Japanese empire expands in the Pacific

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16) The Japanese empire expands in the Pacific

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Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor was intended to clear the way for an ambitious military campaign in the Pacific, illustrated by a map prepared by Douglas MacArthur. In the months after the Hawaii attack, the Japanese attacked the Philippines, Burma, New Guinea, and the Dutch East Indies, taking the British colonies of Hong Kong and Singapore. By the summer of 1942, the Japanese had conquered a broad swath of Southeast Asia, breaking the aura of European and American invincibility.

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angel z 20 DE Gazelle's conquests in Africa

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angel z 20 DE Gazelle's conquests in Africa

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The majority of French troops evacuated to Dunkirk opted to join the Free French, led by Charles de Gaulle. Over the next few years, de Gaulle and his troops fought alongside the Allies, wresting control of France's colonial possessions away from the Vichy government and building up de Gaulle's legitimacy in the eyes of the French people. De Gaulle's military victories deprived Hitler of resources while strengthening his legitimacy.

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17) Japanese kill thousands in the Bataan Death Marchj0

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17) Japanese kill thousands in the Bataan Death Marchj0

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The Bataan Death March was an atrocity during World War II in the Philippines. It was a 3-month siege by the Japanese, which took 75,000 prisoners, including 10,000 American troops. The prisoners were then forced to march 65 miles up the peninsula to San Fernando, where they boarded railcars bound for a prisoner-of-war camp. Japanese troops beat the prisoners, denied them food and water, and executed stragglers, costing hundreds of American lives and several thousand Filipinos. A Japanese general who oversaw the Philippines campaign was tried for war crimes and executed in 1946.

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14)The Nazis begin a gruesome siege of Leningrad 

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14)The Nazis begin a gruesome siege of Leningrad 

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Leningrad was a strategic location on the Gulf of Finland during World War II. The Germans encircled the city and starved its inhabitants, with the worst month being February 1942 when more than 20,000 people died. The Soviets succeeded in building the "Road of Life," a route across the frozen Lake Ladoga, which allowed some provisions to be brought into the city and some civilians to be sent out. The city remained under siege for more than two years before the Red Army finally drove the Nazis out.

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2) The allied countries had larger economies,a crucial factor in their triumph

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2) The allied countries had larger economies,a crucial factor in their triumph

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the combined economic output of the Allies was roughly twice that of the Axis powers. And that was crucial because World War II was the most mechanized war in history up to that point. The troops needed a constant supply of new tanks, weapons, planes, ships, bombs, and other manufactured goods.The total manpower available to the Russian and American allies was far greater than the limited manpower of Germany and Japan. Allied military production far exceeded Axis production, even without the heavy losses in military production due to the Allie bombing. British and American losses during the war were a fraction of those suffered by Germany, Japan, and the USSR, and this, in turn, made it easier to persuade democratic populations to keep fighting even in periods of crisis and stalemate.

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15) The Japanese stage a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor

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15) The Japanese stage a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor

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The Japanese launched a surprise attack on the US Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, with the goal of destroying enough of the US Navy to secure Japanese dominance of the sea. However, the US economy was much larger than Japan's, and the US quickly replaced destroyed ships and built many more.

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The Manhattan Project was a top-secret plan of the American government during WWII to develop the first atomic bombs that eventually would be launched 2 times in Japan in the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This was the most expensive military project, it cost around 2 billion dollars at the time and today would be 25 billion dollars. This map tries to show us the key places of the Manhattan Project. The bigger dots represent the places of greatest importance and the smaller ones those of lesser importance. There we can see where they were and what they were for.

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12) A Nazi-friendly French government takes power in Vichy

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12) A Nazi-friendly French government takes power in Vichy

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Germany wanted to conquer France in 1940, but France signed a document that dictated the French sovereignty in the southern parts of France that had not yet been overrun by German troops. But on July 10,  the French Parliament voted to give power to the Nazi-friendly regime under former general Philippe Pétain. Although that sovereignty ended in November, 1942 when the Nazis occupied the rest of France. When France lost its sovereignty, they collaborated with the Nazis, including participation in the persecution of Jews.

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The British had a secret weapon in 1940 when Germany attempted to bomb Great Britain into submission: a new technology called radar that allowed them to "see" approaching aircraft while they were still crossing the English Channel. This gave the defenders the opportunity to launch their own pilots to stop the attackers. The British had significantly superior methods for integrating radar intelligence to inform tactical decisions than the Germans did, despite the fact that the Germans had their own radar equipment.

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13) Hitler betrays Stalin and invades Russia.

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13) Hitler betrays Stalin and invades Russia.

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Hitler 1941 broke the non-invasion pact he had with Russia and after being able to enter Russia and the campaign was completely successful, the Nazis did not count on what the Russians experienced in the cold since the Germans did not. They had equipment for the soldiers and their cars did not have antifreeze because they ended up losing to Russia without conquering Moscow.

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5) Hitler demands the Sudetenland, the German-speaking parts of Czechoslovakia

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5) Hitler demands the Sudetenland, the German-speaking parts of Czechoslovakia

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In 1938 Hitler annexed Czechoslovakia. The map shows the number of German speaking people in each judicial district of Czechoslovakia, and you can see that there are many. In the northwest of Germany there were many German speaking people and this gave Hittler the idea that Czechoslovakia should be part of Germany and this caused many of these regions to feel threatened and to have political crises. British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain met with Hittler in Munich in 1938 to discuss the crisis, at this meeting an agreement was made that Chamberlain would let Hittler take over Czechoslovakia only if Hittler would stop taking over the territories of the others, but in the end Hittler did not keep his promise.

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A massive invasion on the beaches of Norway #22

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A massive invasion on the beaches of Norway #22

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This battle began on June 6, 1944, it was also known as D-day when over 156,000 American, British, and Canadian troops descended at five beaches situated around a 50-mile stretch of the heavily defended Normandy coast of France. The invasion required careful planning because it was one of the biggest amphibious military operations in history. The Allies ran a significant deception campaign ahead of D-Day to trick the Germans about the invasion's intended aim. In late August 1944, all the northern France has been liberated and the Allies had vanquished the Germans by the following spring. Many people believe that the Normandy landings marked the beginning of the end of the European war. The Battle of Normandy was effectively over by the end of August 1944 when the Allies reached the Seine River, freed Paris, and drove the Germans out of northwest France. After that, the Allied forces planned to advance into Germany, where they would encounter Soviet forces advancing from the east.

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This is the map of Allied operations in southern Italy, September 3-25, 1943. In 1943, the Western Allies still doubted they were strong enough for a direct assault on the Germans in France. So they attacked the Italian Peninsula instead. They hoped to knock the Italians out of the war, leaving Germany to fight the Allies alone. An amphibious assault on Italy began in September 1943. While the Allies did make progress up the Italian peninsula, it was too slow to play a decisive role in the outcome of the war. The British and Americans were still working their way north nine months later when they opened up another front with an amphibious landing in France.

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18)Hitler suffers from a crucial defeat in the battle of Stalingard

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18)Hitler suffers from a crucial defeat in the battle of Stalingard

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Hitler decided in july to divert a large part of his forces to capture the city of Stalingard which is located at the right hand side of the map.Stalingrad didn't have any great great strategic importance however the city's name gave the fight symbolic significance to Hitler and Stalin.In november,the russians launched a counteroffensive to releave the city with the german attackers as well as the prisoners.

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3)After World War I, the allies took territory away from Germany

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3)After World War I, the allies took territory away from Germany

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The map describes how at the end of World War I the victors redrew the map of Europe. They changed some things. Then Hitler took advantage of German resentment to rise to power, provoking political crises and only a year after he took power the second world war began.

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7) Russia invades Finland in the “winter war”

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7) Russia invades Finland in the “winter war”

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This map details that on 30 November 1939, Soviet forces invaded Finland with 21 divisions, totaling 450,000 men, and bombed Helsinki, killing about 100 citizens and destroying more than 50 buildings. Winter War, also known as the First Soviet-Finnish War, was a war between the Soviet Union and Finland. The war began with a Soviet invasion of Finland on 30 November 1939, three months after the outbreak of World War II, and ended three and a half months later with the Moscow Peace Treaty on 13 March 1940.

-Sarai Lopez

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9) Tens of thousands of British troops escape from Dunkirk.

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9) Tens of thousands of British troops escape from Dunkirk.

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The war in France did not go well for the Allies because the French troops were forced to withdraw from the area as German troops would soon follow.
The British troops were ordered to evacuate the place where they were living because the Allies succeeded in evacuating the place because they saved millions of British soldiers who had fought against the Nazis and that was a great advantage they had.

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6) Germany and the Soviet Union shocked the world with a non-aggression pact

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6) Germany and the Soviet Union shocked the world with a non-aggression pact

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People were used to thinking of Nazis and Communists as occupying opposite ends of the political spectrum.  By the end of 1940, the Soviet Union had not only annexed part of Poland, but the nations of Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia as well. , the British and French responded by declaring war on the Nazis.

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My map represents The aircraft carrier that came of age during WWII. In previous wars, ships fired on each other with increasingly powerful and long-range cannons. Aircraft carriers rendered these older ships virtually obsolete. Now planes are only used as platforms for planes and those planes can bomb the enemy.

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This map details the territories lost and gained throughout the years of WWII. The different colors represent the different sides of the war. The site describes WWII as the most widespread conflict in human history, stating that "major battles on three continents and some of the largest naval engagements in history." This map is useful because it gives us a visual understanding of the war as a whole, as well as, the extent at which battles took place, lives were lost, and territory was gained and lost.