‹Return to search

9.3.3 The end of WW2 -TEACH-

AGE 9. The Time of World Wars
9.3.3 The end of World War 2

1 / 40
next
Slide 1: Slide
HistoryMiddelbare schoolhavo, vwoLeerjaar 3

This lesson contains 40 slides, with interactive quiz, text slides and 13 videos.

time-iconLesson duration is: 15 min

Items in this lesson

AGE 9. The Time of World Wars
9.3.3 The end of World War 2

Slide 1 - Slide

people in this lesson
Roosevelt
president
USA
Hitler
Führer
Germany
Eisenhower
general
USA
Stalin
Leader
USSR
Truman
president
USA

Slide 2 - Slide

Allies
Axis Powers
Make sure you know who fought against who from 1942 onwards
“This Berlin-Rome alliance is not a barrier, it is rather an axis around which all European States animated by a desire for peace may collaborate"
Mussolini, 1936

Slide 3 - Drag question

Slide 4 - Slide

Feb. 1943:
Lesson 9.3.3: The end of WW2
Eastern Front: the Germans are in full retreat.
German loss of Stalingrad

Slide 5 - Slide

Berlin
Stalingrad
Moscow
The Red Army pushes into Europe, towards Germany
1944:

Slide 6 - Slide

But Stalin has not been happy with his Western Allies
He demands that they open a "Second Front" soon.
We are 
doing all the fighting. 
We suffer 
         the most!
Why don't 
the US and Britain    
 attack the Germans from the west?
          Give them a two                front war? 

Slide 7 - Slide

Hmm, I don't 
trust Stalin.
    What's wrong with
           Nazis and Communists              killing each 
            other ?
Roosevelt and Churchill agree to a western invasion.
Preparations for Operation "Overlord" begin.
We must 
help Stalin. 
He's our 
ally now!

Slide 8 - Slide

main points:

  • US and UK would invade Western Europe in 1944: Operation Overlord (D-Day)

  • After the defeat of Hitler, Stalin would declare war on Japan.

  • The S.U. would annex the Baltic States
Tehran Conference 1943

Slide 9 - Slide

meanwhile: 

The Germans were building defenses along the entire Atlantic Coast

Slide 10 - Slide

They called it: the Atlantic Wall

Slide 11 - Slide

In charge of the Atlantic Wall was general Erwin Rommel

Slide 12 - Slide

Slide 13 - Slide

Slide 14 - Video

Slide 15 - Video

Slide 16 - Video

Slide 17 - Slide

Slide 18 - Video

World War 2
June 6, 1944

  • Operation Overlord (D-Day)
  • Normandy

Slide 19 - Slide

Slide 20 - Slide

Graf von Stauffenberg

Slide 21 - Slide

Slide 22 - Video

Graf von Stauffenberg

Slide 23 - Slide

World War 2
August 1944

  • Paris liberated

Slide 24 - Slide

Slide 25 - Slide

World War 2
September 1944

  • Operation Market Garden
  • (Eindhoven liberated)

Slide 26 - Slide

Slide 27 - Slide

World War 2
May 8 1945

  • V-E Day
  • Germany capitulates
  • End of WW2 in Europe

Slide 28 - Slide

Slide 29 - Video

histoclips
vanaf 6.00 min

Slide 30 - Slide

Slide 31 - Video

Slide 32 - Video

Slide 33 - Slide

World War 2
August 6 + 9,  1945

  • atomic bombs on Hiroshima & Nagasaki

Slide 34 - Slide

World War 2
August 15,  1945

  • Japan capitulates
  • End of WW2

Slide 35 - Slide

0

Slide 36 - Video

Slide 37 - Video

Slide 38 - Video

Slide 39 - Video

Slide 40 - Video

More lessons like this

9.3.3 The end of WW2 -TEACH-

- Lesson with 25 slides
HistoryMiddelbare schoolhavo, vwoLeerjaar 3

9.3.3 The end of WW2 -TEACH-

- Lesson with 36 slides
HistoryMiddelbare schoolhavo, vwoLeerjaar 3

9.3C The end of WW2 -TEACH-

- Lesson with 31 slides
HistoryMiddelbare schoolhavo, vwoLeerjaar 3

3.4 end of WW2

- Lesson with 24 slides
HistoryMiddelbare schoolhavo, vwoLeerjaar 3

The end of WW2

- Lesson with 19 slides
HistoryMiddelbare schoolhavo, vwoLeerjaar 3

9.3.3: The end of WW2 - Q facts -

- Lesson with 23 slides
HistoryMiddelbare schoolhavoLeerjaar 3

Discovering Germany: A Cultural Journey

- Lesson with 26 slides

9.3.3: The end of WW2 - Q facts -

- Lesson with 28 slides
HistoryMiddelbare schoolhavoLeerjaar 3