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Terms for “The War Ends” • Battle of the Bulge = US victory. Germany exhausted and has little left to prevent Allies from entering Germany. • Manhattan Project = Secret program to build an Atomic Bomb • Nuremburg Trials = Nazi leaders charged with “Crimes against humanity”. • • • • • • • • • • • WARM UP WHAT DID FDR AND CHURCHILL AGREE TO AT CASABLANCA? WHAT WAS THE RESULT OF MASSIVE BOMBING CAMPAIGN OVER GERMANY? WHAT WAS THE RESULT OF THE ITALIAN CAMPAIGN? WHAT AGREEMENTS WERE MADE BETWEEN CHURCHILL, FDR, AND STALIN AT TEHRAN? WHO DID FDR CHOOSE TO COMMAND OPERATION OVERLORD? WHAT ARE DID THE GERMANS BELIEVE THE ALLIES WOULD MOST LIKELY LAND IN REGARD TO THE INVASION OF EUROPE? WHERE DID THE ALLIES LAND? WHICH BEACH SUFFERED THE MOST CASUALTIES? WHY WAS D-DAY SUCCESS SO VITAL TO ALLIED VICTORY? WHAT WAS THE MILITARY STRATEGY CALLED IN REGARD TO GOING ON THE OFFENSIVE IN THE PACIFIC? WHAT WAS THE MOST IMPORTANT MILITARY FACTOR IN REGARD TO ISLAND HOPPING? WWII ENDS SETTING THE STAGE • FIERCE FIGHTING IN BOTH EUROPE AND THE PACIFIC DURING 1945 LED TO THE DEFEAT OF THE AXIS POWERS. THE ALLIES BEGAN WAR CRIMES TRIALS AND SET UP A GLOBAL PEACEKEEPING ORGANIZATION TO PREVENT ANOTHER GLOBAL WAR. THE THIRD REICH COLLAPSES • HEDGEROWS SURROUNDED MANY FIELDS IN NORMANDY = GERMANS CAN EASILY DEFEND!! • ON JULY 25, 1944, AMERICAN BOMBERS BLEW A HOLE IN GERMAN LINES AND AMERICAN TANKS RAN THROUGH • ON AUGUST 25, THE ALLIES LIBERATED PARIS BATTLE OF THE BULGE • HITLER STAGED LAST DESPERATE OFFENSIVE CATCHING AMERICANS BY SURPRISE • GENERAL PATTON AND HIS TROOPS SLAMMED INTO GERMAN LINES • WE WIN THE WAR ENDS IN EUROPE • BY THE TIME THE BATTLE OF THE BULGE ENDS, THE SOVIETS HAD PUSHED GERMANS OUT OF RUSSIA • SOVIETS PUSH TOWARDS BERLIN FROM EAST, AMERICANS FROM THE WEST • SOVIET TROOPS ENTER BERLIN ON APRIL 21ST, 1945 • BY APRIL 30TH, HITLER COMMITTS SUICIDE • VE DAY MAY 8, 1945 JAPAN IS DEFEATED • FDR DIES ON APRIL 12, 1945 = HARRY TRUMAN PRESIDENT • ISLAND HOPPING CAMPAIGNS GIVE US AIR SUPERIORITY, SAVAGE COMBAT ……THE PACIFIC • US MARINES INVADE IWO JIMA TO SET UP AN AIRBASE TO BOMB JAPAN • 6,800 MARINES DIED AT IWO JIMA, AS JAPANESE DEFENDERS FOUGHT TO THE DEATH = BANZAI AND KAMIKAZEES FIREBOMBING JAPAN • B-29’S DROPPED BOMBS ON JAPAN FILLED W/ NAPALM • TOKYO DESTROYED, BUT JAPAN REFUSES TO SURRENDER • MARINES INVADE OKINAWA TO SET UP A STAGING BASE FOR INVASION OF JAPAN • 12,000 AMERICANS DIED = BLOODIEST BATTLE IN HISTORY OF MARINES THE MANHATTAN PROJECT • • • • • • • REASONS FOR DROPPING THE A-BOMB: SAVE MILLIONS OF LIVES, BOTH AMERICAN AND JAPANESE END THE WAR QUICKLY THEY STARTED IT AUG 6, 1945 A-BOMB DROPPED ON HIROSHIMA AUG. 9 A-BOMB DROPPED ON NAGASAKI AUG 15 – VJ DAY BUILDING A NEW WORLD • UNITED NATIONS CREATED AFTER WWII TO PROMOTE GLOBAL COOPERATION AND PEACE • GENERAL ASSEMBLY = EACH MEMBER NATION GETS A VOTE • SECURITY COUNCIL = 11, BUT 5 PERMANENT = GREAT BRITAIN, FRANCE, RUSSIA, CHINA, USA = VETO POWER • SECURITY COUNCIL CAN SEND MILITARY FORCES TO UPHOLD RESOLUTIONS OR MOVE AGAINST A NATION ACTING IN DEFIANCE OF PEACE PUTTING THE ENEMY ON TRIAL • IN AUGUST, 1945, THE USA, BRITIAN, FRANCE, AND THE USSR CREATED THE INTERNATIONAL MILITARY TRIBUNAL • AT THE NUREMBERG TRIALS, THE IMT TRIED GERMAN LEADERS FOR WAR CRIMES ‘CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY” • MANY OF THESE LEADERS WERE EXECUTED • SEVERAL JAPANESE LEADERS WERE ALSO TRIED AND EXECUTED. REFLECTION • WHAT IS THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE BATTLE OF THE HEDGEROWS? • WHAT IS THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE BATTLE OF THE BULGE? • WHO BECAME PRESIDENT AFTER THE DEATH OF FDR? • WHY DID AMERICAN WAR PLANNERS WANT TO INVADE THE ISLAND OF IWO JIMA?’ • WHY WAS NAPALM MORE EFFECTIVE THAN BOMBING WITH HIGH EXPLOSIVES? • WHAT IS THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE BATTLE OF OKINAWA? • WHAT IS THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE MANHATTAN PROJECT? • WHAT EVENTS FINALLY FORCED JAPAN TO SURRENDER? • HOW WAS THE UNITED NATIONS DESIGNED TO PREVENT ANOTHER GLOBAL WAR? • WHAT IS THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE NUREMBURG TRIALS?