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Allies Win
the War
WWII – A new kind of
war
► Did
not fight in trenches like WWI
► Moved quickly using tanks, ships, an
airplanes
► Bombs dropped from air raids destroyed a
lot and killed many
► War was fought over a larger area of land
► WWII had two major fronts – battle lines
1. Africa and Europe 2. Pacific Ocean
War in Africa and
Europe
► Allies
wanted control of the Mediterranean
Sea and to invade Italy
► Allies won North Africa in may 1943
► 1944 Allies captured Rome
► June 6, 1944 largest water-to-land invasion
in history (Allied forces)
D-day – the Allies invaded Normandy
Allies broke through German lines
The Holocaust
► Hitler
with his Nazis blamed the jews for
Germany’s economic problems
► He was using concentration camps
► Hitler made life VERY difficult for Jews
► Hitlers “final solution to the Jewish question” was
a campaign of mass murder against all European
Jews and other “undesirables” The Holocaust
► Anne Frank wrote a diary about her days during
this time.
War in Africa and
Europe
► Battle
of the Bulge – Germans
counterattacked the Allies
► General George Patton (American General)
turned them back
► 1945 Allied troops made it to Berlin,
Germany’s capital
► Hitler killed himself
► May 8, 1945 V-E Day (Victory over
Europe) - German surrendered to Allies
War In the Pacific
► General
Douglas MacArthur led Americans in
May 1942 to defeat the Japanese fleet in
the Battle of the Coral Sea
► Battle of Midway four enemy aircraft carriers
sunk – Japan’s navy never recovered
► These battles turned the war in the Pacific
in favor of the Allies.
War In the Pacific
Island-hopping – a plan to take back
only the most important islands on the
way to Japan
► Battles on the islands of Iwo Jima and
Okinawa led by General MacArthur
► Harry
S. Truman is President
► August 6, 1945 Enola Gay dropped the
atomic bomb on Hiroshima
► August 9th bomb dropped on Nagasaki
World War II Ends
► August
15, 1945 Japan surrendered after
the US dropped bombs on Hiroshima and
Nagasaki
► V-J Day Victory over Japan
► About 300,000 American soldiers died in
WWII
► Close to 15 million soldiers from other
countries died
Changes In
Technology
► Changes
in technology changed the way
WWII was fought
► Planes were used in many different ways
► Dropped bombs, “drones” flew without
pilots, transported soldiers, planes launched
at sea and could attack places that could
not be reached from land
Changes In Technology
► Other
military inventions: antiaircraft guns,
radar, two-way radios
► Battlefield medicines improved: penicillin
and sulfa helped fight infections, DDT used
to kill mosquitoes and other insects that
carried deadly diseases
A Changed World
► United
► The
Nations was formed (UN)
purpose of the UN is to keep world
peace and promote cooperation among
nations
► America now strongest nation in the world
► Helped other nations rebuild
► Relationships between the Soviet Union and
the US became bitter
A Changed World
► Soviet
Union set up a communist
government
Communism – is a system in which all
property is owned by the government
► US
helped countries fight the spread of
communism by giving them military and
economic help
► US and its allies became known as the free
world
The Cold War
► Free
world vs. communist nations
► The hostility became known as the Cold War
Cold War – a war fought with
propaganda and money rather than
with soldiers and weapons
► This
Cold War shaped world events for most
of the second have of the 1900s.
The End