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Islander Social Studies
Chapter 24, Section 4 Study Guide
The World War Two Era
Toward Victory
Pages 821-827
<<<Allied soldiers approach the beaches of Normandy.
Victory in Europe~
In 1943, the ___________ were doing most of the fighting against the ________
Powers. Stalin hoped the Americans and British would open up a second front by
invading ___________. But they were not ready for this so, the decision was made
to invade __________ first.
Italy Surrenders~ By July of 1943, British and American armies had
taken the island of _____________ and were moving up the boot of
____________. Benito ____________ tried to flee north with a
convoy of German trucks, but was captured and executed. On
September 8, the new Italian government ______________
_____________ was the first Axis Power out of the war.
D-Day~ In June of 1944, the Allies took on the task of invading
___________ at ______________. Supreme Allied Commander,
______________________ was in charge. On June 6, 1944, 155,000
Allied troops landed on the beaches of Normandy, France.
We call this __________, but the actual name of the
invasion was _____________________. On Omaha
beach, the Americans encountered fierce German
resistance, but D-Day was a smashing success.
Hitler’s __________________ was breeched and Allied
forces swarmed into occupied France. On August
25th, the French capital of ____________ had been
liberated.
Battle of the Bulge~ German resistance seemed to crumble as Allied armies cruised onto Germany.
However in Belgium, the Germans suddenly counterattacked in force creating a
____________ in the Allied front. Bad weather had socked in the Allied air forces
and the German Army took advantage of this. After weeks of vicious fighting, the
_________ were victorious and the road to __________ lay open!!!
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Germany Invaded~
From the east, a huge ___________ army poured into Germany. From the west,
British and American units attacked. While the Allied armies attacked, Allied air
forces pulverized German ___________________________________.
Suddenly, ___________________________ dies from a stroke and Vice-President
_________________ takes over. The
world is stunned as the American leader
for the Great Depression and most of
World War Two is dead. Will Truman be
up this huge job???
Victory in
Meanwhile, Germany was __________________ as the Soviets were given the honor of
Europe~
assaulting ____________. Knowing the end is near, Adolf Hitler hides in an underground
bunker, marries his long time sweetheart and together, they ______________________.
A week later, Germany’s army officially surrenders. May
8, 1945 became known as V-E Day, or
____________________________. Two Axis Powers
down, one to go…………_______________
Victory in the Pacific~
The __________________________ had
slammed the Japanese fleet. Now, the
Americans are on the ____________(woot)
Island Hopping~
American commanders adopted a strategy known
as ________________________.
Define Island Hopping~
What was the overall goal of the Island Hopping
strategy??
Leading the way were the US ___________. Trained
in ________________ landings, the Marines fought
hard for island after island. The Japanese proved to
be fierce fighters, not understanding the meaning of
___________ and fighting to the last man.
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Helping the Marines were ___________________________.
These soldiers were used to transmit messages using their
______________ language. Since that language had no influences
from other languages, the Japanese had
In January of 1945, Americans landed at __________ in the
Philippines and drove the Japanese off the islands. General
_____________ had kept his promise………he
Japan Holds The last two Japanese held islands, ________________________ were fought for bitterly.
Firm~
On Iwo Jima, only _______ of Japanese soldiers were captured……the rest died fighting!
With these two islands, the Americans could
With a smashed navy and hardly any aircraft, the
Japanese knew the end was near. Trained to find
American ships and fly their aircraft into them, the
_____________ (which means Divine Wind) took to
the skies. Even though the suicide pilots sank several
American warships, this was not enough to stop the
_______________________.
Seeing this crazy devotion, American planners knew
the only way to beat Japan was to ______________
Estimates put the number of Allied dead at
______________ if we invaded the Japanese home
islands……there had to be a better way!!!
The Atomic Bomb~ However, Truman had one final trick that might convince the Japanese to give up.
____________________. After billions of dollars and years
of research, the super-secret ____________ project had
succeeded in building a bomb able to destroy a _________
On Aug. 6, 1945, the American B-26 bomber, the
______________ dropped the first of two bombs on
______________. Instantly, _________ died and the city
was destroyed. But the Japanese hardly seemed to
noticed so on Aug. 9 a second bomber, ________________
dropped a second (and our last) bomb on ______________
Again, the city was destroyed and tens of thousands died.
This time, the Japanese got the message and agreed to surrender on August 14, 1945. That day became
known as __________ or Victory in Japan Day. World War Two was over….the Allies __________.
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The Holocaust~
World War Two was the __________ conflict in human history with over ________
people killed. Yet, we were only to discover the horror of the Nazis, the
Victims of
Germany’s Nazi government under Adolf Hitler preached extreme _____________
the Nazis~
Known as the “Final ____________ to the Jewish problem,” the Nazis worked to
exterminate all Jews in Europe. To kill everyone of a particular
group is known as _________________. In the end, the Nazis
had killed _____________ Jews and six million other people they
considered to be inferior including Poles, Slavs, communist and
people with
Death Camps~ The Nazis developed an efficient system of mass
murder. Building dozens of _______________ and ___________
camps throughout Europe where victims traveled by cattle cars
from their home cities. Once there, prisoners were separated for immediate
________________ or taken to be ____________ to death. Some were taken to be
used in ghastly _______________ experiments.
As Allied soldiers liberated these camps, they found piles
of dead bodies and thousands of skeletal humans who
had survived. When seeing this, most people were left
________________. Thousands of
concentration camps survivors lived to tell this
story………….
War Crimes Trials~ After the secrets of the
Holocaust were learned, Allies leaders decided
that this should be punished for _____________
Define war crimes~
In the German city of ______________, dozens of high ranking Nazis were put on
trial for their crimes with punishments ranging from long prison terms to death.
Similar trails were held for Japanese leaders such as Hideki __________
Tojo was sentenced to death and hanged in 1948.
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