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WWII Ends
WWII Ends
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D-Day was a success, but the allied forces
needed more
• Needed to liberate France and advance into
Germany
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Battle of the Bulge
• Germans surrounded the American occupied
city of Bastogne
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General Patton came with reinforcements
• Broke the German lines
• After 3 weeks of fighting, the Germans began
to retreat
• Nothing was in the way of Americans entering
Germany
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Americans started marching into
Germany
• Russians were closing in on the Eastern
Front
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Knowing defeat was inevitable, Hitler
committed suicide
Germany finally surrenders
• V-E Day
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War is still going on in the Pacific
• FDR dies in 1945
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Harry S Truman takes over
Immediately had to make important
decisions about Japan
Island Hopping
• Iwo Jima
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Able to fire bomb Japan
• Okinawa
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Very close to Japan
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With allies getting closer to Japan,
surrender seems close
• Emperor had to stay in power
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Truman would not accept that
• Fighting continued
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Manhattan Project
• Research project being done on atomic
bomb
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Fully functional by 1945
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Truman was now faced with two choices
• Use bomb or continue fighting
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Positives and negatives to both
• Truman decided to drop the atomic bomb
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Hiroshima first, Nagasaki second
• Massive destruction
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Many civilians died
Forces Japan to surrender
• V-J Day
Assignment
World War II was one of the first
documented wars.
 These photographic images became very
famous and showed the public what war
was really like.
 Look through chapter 20 sec 5 and look at
the images on the following pages 640,
641, 644, 645, 646, and 648
 Write your own caption to the picture,
then write the significance of each image