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Chapter 16 Sec.4
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Terms
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Battle of Stalingrad
D-Day
Battle of the Bulge
Kamikaze
* Dwight D. Eisenhower *
• During his career as a
U.S. General he showed
an uncommon ability
kind to work with all
kinds of people(even his
competitive allies).
• He got named Supreme
Commander in Dec.
1943.
• He put a permanent end
to Nazi Aggression.
•Began on Aug.23,1942.
•There was nightly bombing raids
by the Luftwaffes that set the city
ablaze.
•By early Nov. 1942 Germans
controlled 90% of the ruined city.
•The Russian winter forced some
90,000 frostbitten, ½ starved
German troops to surrender to the
Soviets.
The Allied Home Fronts
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Wherever Allied forces fought, people on the home fronts
rallied to support them.
In war-torn countries like the Soviet Union and Great Britain,
civilians endured extreme hardships.
Except for a few of its territories, such as Hawaii, the U.S did not
suffer invasion or bombing.
Nonetheless, Americans at home made a crucial contribution
to the Allied war effort.
Americans produced the weapons and equipment that helped
win the war.
Mobilizing for War
• Deafening the Axis
powers required
mobilizing for total war.
• In the U.S. factories
converted there peacetime
operations to the war
production.
• By 1944, between 17 & 18
million workers –many of
them women-had jobs in
war industries.
War Limits Civil Rights
• Government
propaganda had a
negative effect.after
Pearl Harbor, a wave
of prejudice rose in the
U.S.against the
Japanese Americans.
D-Day Invasion
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By May 1944 the
invasion force was
ready .
Thousands of war
vehicles and 3 million
troops awaited the
order to attack.
Code name operation
Overlord,the
invasion of
Normandy , was the
largest land and sea
attack in history.
The invasion started
on June 6,1944 (a.k.a.
D-Day)
The American forces
lost 2,700 men that
single day.
Battle of the Bulge
 With allies attacking from the west and the soviet
union on the east, Hitler faced a war on two fronts
 In a desperate gamble, He tried to counterattack in
the west. He hoped the victory would split up
American& British forces& break up allied supply
lines
 On December16, Germany tanks broke thought
weak American defenses along a 75-mile front in
the Ardennes
Germany’s Unconditional
Surrender
• After the battle of the bulge, the war in
Europe rapidly came to a close.
• While soviet shells bust over Berlin, Hitler
prepared for his end in underground
headquarters beneath the city.
• On may 71945 General Eisenhower
accepted the unconditional surrender of the
Third Reich from the German military
Victory in the Pacific
• Although the war in
Europe was over, the
Allies were still fighting
the Japanese in the pacific.
• With the allies Victory at
Guadalcanal, However ,
the rest of the war , the
Japanese retreated before
the counters attack of the
allied powers
The Japanese in Retreat
 In October 1949 allied forces landed on the
islands of Leytte in the Philippines.
 The Japanese devised plan that would halt
the allied advance. They would destroy the
American fleet,k preventing the allies from
resupplying their ground troops.
Kamikazes
• They were basically crazy japanese
people.
• They would give their lives for there
countrey.
• They lost 100,000 troops and we lost
12,000of our troops.
• When the U.S. would meet the Japianese
they would put up a dispirit fight.
The Atomic Bomb
•The A Bomb was a
powerful new weapons
developed by the topsecret Manhattom
project headed by
general Leslie
Grooves and Chief
scientist J. Robert
Oppenheimer.
The Japanese Surrender
• President Truman’s advisers had
informed him that an invasion of the
japanese home land might cost the
allies ½ a million lives.
• Truman first learned of the new
bomb’s existence when he became
president.
The Japanese
Surrender(cont.)
• The first atomic bomb was dropped in a desert
in New Mexico in July 16, 1945.
• Japanese city of nearly 350,000 people.
Between 70,000 and 80,000 died in the
attack.
Reference Page
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Ch. 16 Sec.4 Assessment
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When was the battle of Stalingrad?
What were Kamikazes?
What was D-Day code-name?
Who was the President during WWII?
When did the allied forces land on the island of Leyta
(LAA-Tee)?
6. T-F The battle of the Bulge was on Dec. 16.
Ch. 16 Sec.4 Assessment
7.When was the 1ST atomic bomb
tested?
8.What General did the Japanese
surrender to?
9.When did D-Day begin?
10.T-F – The American president was
Theodore Roosevelt.