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B. Operation Torch (Nov. ’42)

B. Operation Torch (Nov. ’42). C. Operation Overlord/D-Day June 6, 1944. Gen. Eisenhower with D-Day troops; unconditional surrender!. Last offensive attack by Germany Germany never recoups Largest # of men served/worst casualties for Allies.

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B. Operation Torch (Nov. ’42)

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  1. B. Operation Torch (Nov. ’42)

  2. C. Operation Overlord/D-DayJune 6, 1944

  3. Gen. Eisenhower with D-Day troops; unconditional surrender!

  4. Last offensive attack by Germany Germany never recoups Largest # of men served/worst casualties for Allies D. Battle of the Bulge/Ardennes(Dec. 44-Jan.45)

  5. 1. Supreme Commander of Europe Operation Torch D-Day V-E Day On to the Pacific! E. Gen. Dwight Eisenhower

  6. Places of Conflict

  7. F. The Pacific & Island Hopping

  8. Japan w/largest fleet ever ensemble; 110 ship Allies outnumbered 4/1 Japan never recovers Safeguard Hawaii and communications 1. Battle of Midway: “payback” for P.H. (Jun ’42)

  9. 2. Iwo Jima: refueling and bombing Japan

  10. 3. Battle of Okinawa (4/’45) • Last major battle in the pacific • More men than in D-Day • Worst US casualties in the Pacific

  11. kamikaze

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  13. 25.6:The Last Stages of War The Holocaust:The systematic murder of 11 million people across Europe, more than half of whom were Jews

  14. A. Holocaust Nuremberg Laws Kristallnacht: crystal night (1938) Final solution = genocide

  15. *A. German Forces Schutzstaffel: started as Hitler’s bodyguards. (Himmler) Gestapo: the Secret State police (Goering) German army

  16. Hitler’s top men… Goering Himmler Goebbels

  17. *Gestapo controlled concentration camps; <half of those who died here are shown

  18. *C. Where can the Jews go?(1933) Refugee problem… Quotas on immigrants National Origins Act of 1929; limited immigration to 150,000 in U.S. U.S., depression, refugees… How are these connected?

  19. *D. The Final Solution: Genocide The condemned: Jews and any other seen as undesirable a. Political opponents – communists, socialist b. Religious groups c. Homosexuals d. Disabled; mentally, physically 2. Method Shot in cold blood starved ghettos sent to labor/concentration camps Used for medical experiments

  20. Holocaust Victims1939-1945

  21. *E. Concentration Camps

  22. Jewish Ghetto

  23. To the right, slave laborTo the left, gas chamber

  24. *F. Death Marches

  25. Agreed to: “Spheres of influence” Membership terms for United Nation Stalin agrees to enter Pacific front Soviet troops can stay in occupied lands but no building of “empire” in Eastern Europe Division of Germany and Berlin B. Yalta Conference(Feb. 4, 1945)

  26. C. FDR Passes awayApril 12, 1945

  27. Unconditional surrender of Japan Stalin to enter Aug. 8, ‘45 Truman, Attlee and Stalin D. Potsdam Conference (6/’45)

  28. No need to invade Japan Lives of American troops saved Would bring an end to the war more rapidly Would stop the Soviet Union from entering war and possibly taking over lands in the region Oppenheimer E. Manhattan Project: To drop or not to drop the bomb…

  29. US sites important to Manhattan Project

  30. Hiroshima and Nagasaki

  31. F. Nuremberg War Trials Trials of Nazi leaders at Nuremberg, Germany

  32. Making advances early on Industrial city winter ****************************************************************************Do not cover: Operation Barbarossa June 1941

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