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- CLASS SET -. V-E Day, May 8, 1945. V-J Day, September 2, 1945. Soviet soldier raising flag on Berlin’s Reichstag building. Mushroom cloud from atomic bombing of Nagasaki. Alfred Eisenstaedt’s V-J day in Times Square. Mussolini’s body (second from left).

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  1. - CLASS SET - V-E Day, May 8, 1945 V-J Day, September 2, 1945 Soviet soldier raising flag on Berlin’s Reichstag building Mushroom cloud from atomic bombing of Nagasaki Alfred Eisenstaedt’s V-J day in Times Square Mussolini’s body (second from left) ° August 1942- February 1943- Battle of Stalingrad Soviet victory over Nazis Losses: Soviets- over 1 million men Nazis- 240,000 men ° May 1943- Nazi General Erwin Rommel’s AfrikaKorps were defeated ° June 6, 1944- D-Day Allies’ successful invasion of occupied France Extremely heavy casualties Led to liberation of France, Belgium, Luxemburg ° April 1945- Germans retreat from northern Italy April 29- Mussolini shot and hanged for trying to escape ° April 1945- Allies surrounded Berlin Hitler and his mistress commit suicide in bunker ° May 8, 1945- Unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany signed in Berlin ° August 1939- Scientist Albert Einstein warned FDR that the Axis Powers may be developing an atomic weapon ° Fall 1944- Kamikazes (Japanese suicide pilots) were the only thing standing between the Allies and Japan ° March 1945- American Marines captured Iwo Jima ° April 12, 1945- FDR died; Harry S. Truman the new president (had to make decision about the American atomic bomb) ° August 6, 1945- Atomic bomb dropped on Japanese city of Hiroshima Around 73,000 people are killed ° August 9, 1945- Atomic bomb dropped on Japanese city of Nagasaki Around 37,500 people were killed ° September 2, 1945- Japanese officially surrendered to American General Douglas MacArthur

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