GERMAN DEFEAT AT STALINGRAD
VICTORY IN EUROPE &
THE PACIFIC
1943 - USSR defeats Germany"
Germany has to face that they won’t be winning
the USSR"
Focuses on western Europe
D-DAY JUNE 6, 1944
The beginning of the end for Germany"
Part of “Operation Overlord”"
“ATTACK” OF CALAIS
Allies created a fake attack plan for Calais"
Actually attacked at Normandy"
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Plan to land about 50 units across a 50 mile
stretch of beach on the coast of Normandy,
France"
Sail across English Channel
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LANDING AT OMAHA BEACH
GERMANY COULD NOT FIGHT THE TWOFRONT WAR
especially destructive due to cliﬀs on beach"
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USSR pushing from east and US/Gr. Britain/
Canada"
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HITLER WILL NOT GIVE UP
“Battle of the Bulge”"
Hitler’s goal was to create chaos among Allies"
Worked at 1st, but Allies pushed back"
Created division amongst German troops
Nazi leaders plot to assassinate Hitler to get
Allies oﬀ their back
THE END IN EUROPE
USSR & US/Gr. Britain have trapped Germany
back in their own capital (Berlin)"
Hitler commits suicide 4/30/1945"
5/7/1945 Germany makes full surrender to Allies "
“V-E Day”
ISLAND HOPPING IN PACIFIC
Fighting for islands one by one - closer and closer
to Japan itself"
Iwo Jima & Okinawa -especially fierce fighting
US ATOMIC BOMBINGS
New US President Harry Truman had to make
decision"
Decided that saving US lives outweighed ethical
considerations of dropping atomic bombs on
innocent civilians
US BOMBING RAID OF TOKYO
Japan could not keep up w/their supply needs"
US air raid over Tokyo kills over 83,000 Japanese
HIROSHIMA 8/6/1945
60,000 residents dead or disappeared in 2
minutes"
Japan debates whether they should surrender"
8/9/1945 USSR declares war on Japan & invades
one of their captured areas
NAGASAKI 8/9/1945
US drops atomic bomb on Nakasaki killing
35,000 civilians"
Hirohito makes decision to surrender on 8/15/1945 "
(V-J Day)