History Mega Bundle: Exploration to PresentĬopyright © History Gal. ***This is included in the following larger unit bundles: *Animated PowerPoint shows each location and the key – perfect for classrooms without textbooks or Internet access 38 slides, each slide guides students through completing the map, some text is editable but images are not) *Answer key for World War II in the Pacific map (2 pages, uneditable pdf) *Coloring Page for World War II in the Pacific (1 page, uneditable pdf) *Blank World War 2 in the Pacific map without questions for students to answer (1 1/2 pages, uneditable pdf) annexed Korea in 1905, and national independence returned only after World War 2. *Blank World War II in the Pacific map with questions for students to answer (2 pages, uneditable pdf) Military map of World War II on the Far East, 9 August - 2 September. *Animated PowerPoint shows each location and the key – perfect for classrooms without textbooks or Internet access (49 slides, each slide guides students through completing the map, some text is editable but images are not) *Answer key for World War 2 in Europe map (2 pages, uneditable pdf) *Coloring Page for World War II in Europe map (1 page, uneditable pdf) *Blank World War II in Europe map without questions (1 1/2 pages, uneditable pdf) *Blank World War II in Europe map with questions for students to answer (2 pages, uneditable pdf) What’s Included with the Printed Versions: Unlock this Nat Geo Premium contentand much more. On the World War II in the Pacific map, students will also label the Attack on Pearl Harbor, the Battle of Coral Sea, the Battle of Midway, the Battle of Attu, the Battle of Kiska, the Battle of Guadalcanal, the Battle of Tarawa, the Battle of Saipan, the Battle of Guam, the Battle of Leyte Gulf, the Battle of Iwo Jima, the Battle of Okinawa, and the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. From Stalingrad to the dropping of the atomic bomb, see key moments that shaped the outcome of WWII. On the World War II in Europe map, students will also label the Maginot Line, the Battle of Dunkirk, the Battle of Britain, the Battle of Stalingrad, the Battle of El Alamein, the Invasion of Sicily, the Invasion of Normandy, and the Battle of the Bulge. This is the beginning of the ‘cold war’, a non-combat state of geo-political tension between US-led liberal democracies and the Soviet Union and its satellites.These World War II in Europe and World War 2 in the Pacific maps will help students become more familiar with the nations of Europe and those in the Pacific during World War II by identifying which countries belonged to the Allies, which ones joined the Axis, which ones were controlled by the Axis Powers, and which ones remained neutral. Tensions were also heightened by the Soviet distrust of the US prior to Hiroshima, the Soviets were not aware that their erstwhile allies had the A-bomb. This was to provide military protection to western democracies under threat of Soviet encroachment. The US also joined with western European democracies and Canada in NATO (the North Atlantic Treaty Organization) in 1949. Truman responded by speedily implementing the Marshall Plan, an American initiative which provided over $13 billion in aid to Western Europe to assist with economic reconstruction. Alarmed by all these developments, US President Harry S. West Berlin became an isolated enclave within East Germany. Following the collapse of the Third Reich in 1945 and its defeat in World War II, Germany was stripped of its territorial gains, and. The eastern half became the German Democratic Republic, aligning itself with the Soviet Union, whilst the West became the Federal Republic of Germany. The history of Germany from 19451990 spans the period following World War II, from the Berlin Declaration marking the Allied-occupied period in Germany on 5 June 1945 to German reunification on 3 October 1990. Primary Image: The US pursued a two-pronged offensive across the central and southwest Pacific to. When Germany and Italy declared war on the United States days later, America found itself in a global war. Tensions further heightened when the Soviet Union, under Joseph Stalin, blockaded Berlin and launched a successful Soviet sponsored coup in Czechoslovakia (1948). On December 7, 1941, Japan staged a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, severely damaging the US Pacific Fleet. The crisis in France and the Low Countries developed after the Germans. Immediately after the Potsdam and Yalta agreements in 1945, the Soviet Union consolidated its control in eastern Europe, installing puppet regimes in Soviet-occupied territories. In general, the military mapping of the Second World War followed the same. After cooperating in World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union became antagonists.
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