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D-Day and Liberation of France • Plan = take Hitler by surprise on the Normandy Peninsula • Attack begins June 6, 1944 – Largest land-sea-air operation in history • July 25, 1944 Gen. Omar Bradley starts air and land bombardment, Gen. George Patton advances Army • Aug 25, 1944 – Paris free from German occupation The Battle of the Bulge • October 1944 Americans capture Aachen – First German town to be captured • December 16 Germans attack Americans – German’s last ditch offensive – Americans receive a surrender demand form Germans • January 1945 Germans were pushed back – From that point on, Nazis could do little but retreat Unconditional Surrender • April 25, 1945 SU stormed Berlin • April 29 – Hitler marries Eva Braun, prepares statement to German people • April 30 – Hitler shot himself, Eva swallows poison – Bodies soaked in gasoline to burn • May 8, 1945 = VE day – First part of war over Liberation of Death Camps • July 1944 – Soviets first come across death camps – Majdanek Death Camp, Poland • SS work to bury and burn all evidence of crime – Soviets find world’s largest crematorium and a storehouse containing 800,000 shoes – “Living corpses” freed across Europe War in the Pacific April 1942, Bataan Douglas MacArthur and the Allies held out for four months against invading Japanese forces before abandoning the peninsula. June 1942, Midway Chester W. Nimitz and the Americans turned back the Japanese invasion force headed for Hawaii War in the Pacific August 1942, Guadalcanal October 1944, Leyte Gulf MacArthur and Americans MacArthur and the Americans dealt Japan its first defeat on retook the Philippines and dealt land a devastating blow to the Japanese navy. War in the Pacific March 1945, Iwo Jima June 1945, Okinawa MacArthur and the Allies in a MacArthur and the Allies took fierce battle took the island the island from Japan from the Japanese War in the Pacific September 1945, Tokyo Bay Hirohito, MacArthur – Japan formally surrendered The Science of War July 1945, Los Alamos J. Robert Oppenheimer; the first atomic bomb was built, successfully completing the Manhattan Project August 1945, Hiroshima, Nagasaki Truman; first atomic bombs were dropped
