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Why did the Allies win WWII?

Why did the Allies win WWII?. Lesson 3: Allied Strategies. Strategies used by the Allies Strategic bombing was particularly effective against Japan, where it was used to destroy Japanese industry and kill or force out its civilian workforce

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Why did the Allies win WWII?

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  1. Why did the Allies win WWII? Lesson 3: Allied Strategies

  2. Strategies used by the Allies • Strategic bombing was particularly effective against Japan, where it was used to destroy Japanese industry and kill or force out its civilian workforce • Firebombing Tokyo killed between 80,000 and 130,000 people • Nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki killed about 200,000 people • The US and Britain attacked Normandy in Northern France to begin taking Western Europe from the Germans • German troops were tied down fighting in Italy and against the Soviets • The Allies used misdirection to further spread out the German lines in France

  3. Guiding Question: How did Allied strategies lead to the defeat of the Axis? • You will now do research to answer the guiding question • Look for secondary sources on jstor.org and scholar.google.com • Look for primary sources at the websites below. You can also just search for primary sources on any given topic • http://guides.lib.washington.edu/content.php?pid=90255&sid=687755 • http://www.nationalww2museum.org/learn/education/for-teachers/primary-sources/ • http://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/wwii.asp • http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/09/world-war-ii-the-eastern-front/100150/ • http://english.iremember.ru/ • This site may also be useful: http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/how_the_allies_won_01.shtml • For every source that you find, perform all four steps of source analysis and write down all bibliographic information

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