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Pushing the Axis Back

Pushing the Axis Back. Striking Back at the 3 rd Reich. Strategic Bombing Striking at the Underbelly (Sicily) Mussolini surrendered Italy Roosevelt Meets Stalin in Tehran. France- “Operation Overlord”.

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Pushing the Axis Back

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  1. Pushing the Axis Back

  2. Striking Back at the 3rd Reich • Strategic Bombing • Striking at the Underbelly (Sicily) • Mussolini surrendered Italy • Roosevelt Meets Stalin in Tehran

  3. France- “Operation Overlord” • Allies placed fake army at the coast of Britain to convince Germans that the Allies planned to invade Calais

  4. France- “Operation Overlord” • D-Day: June 6, 1944 • Allied invasion of French beaches at Normandy • Death and gore

  5. Driving the Japanese Back • Island-Hopping Campaign 1943: U.S. offensive in the Pacific • Tarawa: the first American offensive in the critical central Pacific region.

  6. Driving Japanese Back • Philippines • Guadalcanal/Leyte Gulf: largest naval battle in U.S. History- U.S. troops ambushed, but force Japanese retreat

  7. The War Ends • France Liberated • Battle of the Bulge • Last German offensive • Great American victory • April 29, Hitler commits suicide

  8. The War Ends • V-E Day • May 8, 1945- Victory in Europe Day

  9. Japan is Defeated • Roosevelt dies • Truman takes over • Alamogordo, N.M. had air field with regiments in training

  10. Japan is Defeated • Iwo Jima: U.S. planes could bomb Japan from there • Firebombing- Napalm http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2lhJ32feec&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1&safe=active

  11. Japan is Defeated • Okinawa • 82 day long battle • Kamikaze • were suicide attacks by Japanese military aviators

  12. Japan is Defeated • Manhattan Project- secret American program to build a atomic • Hiroshima- Aug. 6, 1945 • Nagasaki- Aug. 9, 1945 • Sept. 2, 1945- WWII ends

  13. Japan is Defeated • Building a new world • United Nations: created for countries to solve differences peacefully as opposed to war • Nuremburg Trials- punish German leaders for war crimes

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