Turning Points of WWII - Extra Credit

•Copy the 10 events to a google document

•Bold 3 events that you would consider to be the most significant turning points of the war

•For each of your 3 events, find 2 or 3 pieces of evidence (images, text, maps) that show the significance. Insert into your doc and explain.

1939   Germany invades Poland: This is typically considered the start of WWII.

Battle of Britain         Summer of 1940: an air battle fought between the German Luftwaffe (air force), which carried out extensive bombing in Britain, and the British Royal Air Force. Nazi Germany failed to invade Britain. It was one of the turning points because Nazi Germany took over many other places but Britain, and Britain won.

Pearl Harbor Sunday, December 7, 1941 at 7:55 A.M.: United States military base on Hawaii that was bombed by Japan. It was attacked. This was a turning point because the US got involved in WW2. "Date that will live in Infamy" -FDR

Battle of Midway       June 4, 1942: U.S. naval victory over the Japanese fleet, in which the Japanese lost four of their best aircraft carriers. It marked a turning point in World War II because it benefitted US forces more than Japanese forces; in fact, it weaken Japanese forces.

Stalingrad      August 1942: Also called "Invasion of Russia" Unsuccessful German attack on the Soviet Union. It was a turning point because the USSR left the Axis to go to the Allies since Hitler broke the non-aggression pact and attacked them. (He wanted this city to tumble down.)

D-Day June 6, 1944: Also called "Battle of Normandy": Led by Eisenhower, over a million Allied troops (the largest invasion force in history) stormed the beaches at Normandy, France and began the process of re-taking France. The turning point of World War II because the Allied Force re-took France.

Surrender of Germany        May 8, 1945

Hiroshima      August 6, 1945: One of the Japanese towns that got bombed by US: "Little Boy" was dropped.

Nagasaki       August 9, 1945: One of the towns that got bombed by US; "Fat Boy" was dropped on.

Surrender of Japan September 2, 1945