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World History Cultures
Chapter 20- World War II
Section 4- Turning Points of WWII
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I.
Turning Points
Battle of Stalingrad Dec 1942
a. German army destroyed.
II.
Battle of El Alamein, 1943, Allies
push Germans out of Africa into
Italy. Italy the liberated by allies.
III. Normandy Invasion, June 6, 1944,
Allied offensive toward Germany.
Liberate France.
IV. Battle of the Bulge, Dec 1944,
German offensive stopped by Allies.
Germany surrenders.
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I.
II.
War in the Pacific
Battle of Midway, turning point, Allies
defeat Japanese.
Allies begin “island hopping” strategy,
liberating each Pacific island from
Japan.
 War in the Pacific, continued.
III. Hiroshima, Aug 6, 1945, atomic bomb
dropped on city. Second atomic bomb
dropped on Nagasaki. Japan
surrenders.
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I.
Effects of WWII
Nazi war criminals judged at
Nuremberg Trials.
II. Areas of Europe and Asia devastated
from bombings and war.
a. People homeless.
b. Shortage of food, medicine,
clothing.
III. Economic crisis due to cost of war.
IV. Atomic bomb used for the first time.
V. Two superpowers emerge: USSR &
USA.
VI. Formation of the United Nations.
VII. Germany and city of Berlin divided.
VIII. Japan occupied by USA for 7 years.
IX. Six million Jews murdered by Hitler.
X. 55 million people perished---most
destructive war in history.