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Whose on Whose side?
Allies
Axis
(major powers)
(major powers)
Great Britain
Germany
Russia
Italy
United States
Japan
France
(note: France surrendered to
Germany in 1940 (after 6
weeks of fighting)
Allies United:
U.S.S.R, England and The U.S.
European Front
1943
– German 6th Army surrenders at Stalingrad
1944
June 6 - D-Day: Allies land at Normandy
Normandy Invasion,
D-Day
D-Day
Landing on Normandy Beach
European Front
1945
Feb. - FDR, Stalin, and Churchill meet at Yalta
Conf.
April 12 - FDR dies of a stroke
April 28 - Mussolini Hanged by Italian Partisans
April 30 - Hitler and wife commit suicide
May 7 - Unconditional surrender of all German
forces
May 8 - V.E. Day (Victory in Europe)
American generals: seated left to right are William H. Simpson, George S. Patton, Jr., Carl
Spaatz, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Omar Bradley, Courtney H. Hodges, and Leonard T.
Gerow; standing are Ralph F. Stearley, Hoyt S. Vandenberg, Walter Bedell Smith, Otto P.
Weyland, and Richard E. Nugent.
Define
HOLOCAUST
I. Holocaust
1. Great or total destruction,
especially by fire.
2. a. Widespread destruction.
b. A great disaster.
3. The genocide of European Jews
and others by the Nazis during
World War II
4. The deliberate and planned destruction
of European Jews
Pacific Front
1942
-April 10 – Bataan Death March
-April 18 – Surprise U.S. “Doolittle” B-25 Raid on
Tokyo
-May 7-8 – Battle of the Coral Sea
(first Japanese defeat)
-June 4-5 – Battle of Midway – U.S. Victory
(turning point of pacific front)
1944
- October 25 – The First Kamikaze attacks occur
Pacific Front
1945
-May 20 – Japan withdraws from China
-July 5 – Liberation of Philippines declared
The Atomic Bomb
I. The Bomb
A. May 1942
•FDR sets up the Manhattan Project
to prepare to build a bomb
B. Truman was unaware of the
Atomic Bomb at the time of
FDR’s Death
C. July 10th, 1945
•US test the Atomic Bomb
- Los Alamos, NM
D. July 26, 1945
• The Allies warn Japan
E. August 6, 1945
• A B-29 ( the Enola Gay ) drops an
atomic bomb on Hiroshima
• 71,000 - 80,000 people die
instantly
F. August 9, 1945
• The US drops a Second bomb on
Nagasaki
G. Truman favors the dropping of the
bombs because it would save
American lives.
– H. Japan Surrenders
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Japan announces their intent to
surrender on August 12, 1945
August 14, 1945 Japan announces
unconditional surrender
August 15, 1945 - VJ Day
Japan officially surrenders on
September 2, 1945 aboard the US
Battleship Missouri
WW II Facts
War Costs
1. US Debt 1940 - $9 billion
US Debt 1945 - $98 billion
The war cost $330 billion -- 10 times the
cost of WWI & as much as all previous
federal spending since 1776
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B. Human Costs
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WW II Facts
Human Costs
50 million people died (compared to 15 million
in WWI)
21.3 million Russians (7.7 million civilians)
11 million died as a result of the
HOLOCAUST
(6 million Jews + 5 million others)
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