1. VS.
Battle of Britain and Pearl
Harbor 1940-1941
VS.

2. German planes began to bomb Great Britain in the
summer of 1940.

3. Winston Churchill replaced Chamberlain as
Britain’s prime minister and had to lead his
government from an underground bomb shelter!

4. Damage done to London during the
German Nazi air bombings.

5. People in Britain had to take shelter
in underground subways.

6. British citizens hid in manholes and
pipes in the ground!

7. British children take shelter in a
ditch!

8. Even some shelters were
destroyed!

9. The damage to the country of Great
Britain was enormous!

10. German bomb planes came at night to avoid British ground
gunfire, put fear into the British people and take proper
sleep from citizens. To confuse them the British would:
• Blackout all street lights.
• British citizens were told to hang black
material over their windows.
• Dig holes in their yards to get into at night.

11. Britain asked the United States to help!!! But the
U.S. people wanted to stay out of the war.
However, the U.S. did agree to send free military
supplies to Great Britain.
Many U.S. citizens didn’t like this decision
by Roosevelt but he said:
“Definitely there is danger ahead-danger
against which we must prepare and
face as a nation.”

12. There were many air fights above Britain between
the Nazi German planes and the British planes.

13. German planes attacked Great Britain from
their newly conquered country of France!
GREAT
BRITAIN
FRANCE

14. The Battle of Britain was the first battle in the
history of the world to be fought only by
Airplanes!!

15. A rare color photo of German
planes preparing attacking Britain.

16. • 60,000 British civilians (normal people)
were killed in the Nazi Germany air
attacks.
• Another 87,000 people were injured!
• Over TWO MILLION homes were
destroyed!

17. Churchill told the British citizens:
“We are strong! We can take it!”

18. And take it the British citizens did. For TEN
months-almost every day and night!!! People
took cover, hoped and prayed. On Sept. 8, 1940,
the government called for a “national day of
prayer” and citizens spent all day praying to God.

19. They also fought back. The British Royal Air force was
ordered to strike at Berlin and other targets in Germany
and did some damage to Germany.

20. Many movies have been made about this famous
battle between the British and Nazi Germans

21. Hitler was frustrated that Britain wouldn’t give up and he
didn’t believe that he could defeat their powerful navy in a
sea and land battle and in May of 1940 the bombings
stopped as Hitler decided to invade the Soviet Union
instead! Britain had won the battle! Hitler suffered his 1 st
defeat!
LOOK ON PAGE 346 in your textbook!!

22. Hitler knew that the U.S. was giving supplies to
Britain (Lend-lease) but he wasn’t ready to attack
the United States. However, our trouble started
with another AXIS country…
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23. The U.S. government didn’t like Japan attacking
China and other countries in the Pacific and was
worried that they would try to take the Philippines,
Guam and Hawaii from us!
JAPAN

24. President Roosevelt openly criticized Japan for
attacking other countries and taking them over.
This caused Hirohito and the Japanese
government to get very upset with the U.S.

25. Japan DID want our lands and they believed we would
oppose them as they tried to conquer more lands. Hideki
Tojo was the Japanese head General and he decided to
attack the U.S.!

26. Early on a Sunday morning, December 7, 1941,
Japanese planes surprised the United States by
attacking the naval base at Pearl Harbor, Japan!

27. Japanese planes bombed ships in
Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

28. U.S. soldiers jumped from their beds and ran to
their guns aboard the ships but it was too late…

29. The damage was already done…

32. U.S. planes were demolished!

34. Ships were sunk in the harbor!

36. 2,300 American soldiers, sailors and
civilians lay dead in just a few hours.
The DEAD continued to wash ashore

37. The next day, Americans were
SHOCKED by the news headlines!

38. Americans were furious! They
demanded that the U.S. declare
war on Japan!
DOWN WITH
JAPAN!!!

39. President Roosevelt asked congress for war
the very next day…These were a few of his
famous words:
“Yesterday, December 7, 1941 –a date
which will live in infamy-the United States
was suddenly and deliberately attacked by
the naval and air forces of Japan.”
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40. Quickly, Congress voted to declare
war on Japan! Immediately, all the
AXIS powers: Germany, Italy and
Japan declared war right back!
Joining the ALLIES of Great Britain,
Canada, Soviet Union, Mexico,
Australia and others, the U.S. was
now involved in the biggest battle
the world had ever seen:
World War Two!