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Victory in Europe and the Pacific Section 3

How did the Allies defeat the Axis Powers? Vocabulary: -D-Day -Battle of the Bulge -Harry S. Truman -island hopping -kamikaze -Albert Einstein -Manhattan Project -J. Robert Oppenheimer. Victory in Europe and the Pacific Section 3. Allied Victory in Europe.

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Victory in Europe and the Pacific Section 3

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  1. How did the Allies defeat the Axis Powers? Vocabulary: -D-Day -Battle of the Bulge -Harry S. Truman -island hopping -kamikaze -Albert Einstein -Manhattan Project -J. Robert Oppenheimer Victory in Europe and the Pacific Section 3

  2. Allied Victory in Europe • After “Bulge”, allies closed in on Berlin • Allies met at Yalta to discuss terms of German surrender • Berlin ended up under Soviet Control • Hitler Committed Suicide • VE Day – Victory in Europe • Discovery of the death camps

  3. VE Day

  4. Turning Point in the Pacific • Establish control over skies and waters of the Pacific • Battle of the Coral Sea • 1st major battle in Pacific • Battle of Midway • June 1942 • Turning point in the Pacific • Kamikazes

  5. Battle of Iwo Jima and Okinawa • US Island hopped their way through the Pacific • Dangers other than battle • Monsoons, malaria, heat, earthquakes, jungle conditions • Iwo Jima • US losses: • 6800 killed • 23,000 wounded • Okinawa • Costliest engagement 50,000 casualties • Gave U.S. strong positions to launch air strikes

  6. Code-talkers, Navajo troops

  7. Iwo Jima

  8. Iwo Jima

  9. Death of FDR 4/12/45

  10. Harry Truman, 33rd President

  11. The End of the War • Bombing of Japan • Blockade of Japan • Kamikazes • Manhattan Project • A-Bomb Attacks • VJ Day August 14, 1945 • Casualties

  12. The Manhattan Project TRANSPARENCY

  13. Manhattan Project • Key Players • Albert Einstein • Enrico Fermi • J. Robert Oppenheimer • The Decision to drop the Bomb • August 6, 1945 • Hiroshima • August 9, 1945 • Nagasaki • August 14, 1945 • Surrender of Japan

  14. The War Goes Atomic….

  15. An aerial view of "ground zero" at Los Alamos after the detonation of the world's first atomic bomb at 5:29 a.m. on 16 July 1945

  16. Hiroshima (little boy)/Nagasaki (fat man)

  17. Hiroshima • August 6, 1945, Japan • 180,000 killed, wounded, or missing after atomic bomb is dropped. Two days later Soviet Union enters war against Japan.

  18. Pre-attack Hiroshima

  19. Post-attack Hiroshima

  20. Towards the epicenter, Hiroshima

  21. Nagasaki • August 9, 1945, Japan • Second bomb is dropped after Japanese delay surrender. 80,000 killed or missing.

  22. Nagasaki

  23. A Japanese report on the bombing characterized Nagasaki as "like a graveyard with not a tombstone standing."

  24. What were the major immediate and long-term effects of World War II? • Vocabulary: -Yalta Conference -superpower -GATT – General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade -UN – United Nations -Universal Declaration of Human Rights -Geneva Convention -Nuremberg Trials Effects of the WarSection 5

  25. Europe After world war ii

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