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Toward Victory

Toward Victory. By: Catelyn and Preston. Victory In Europe. Stalin urged the Americans and the British to open a second front. This was to be done by invading France, BUT Roosevelt and Churchill chose a different route which was removing Italy from the war.

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Toward Victory

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  1. Toward Victory By: CatelynandPreston

  2. Victory In Europe Stalin urged the Americans and the British to open a second front. This was to be done by invading France, BUT Roosevelt and Churchill chose a different route which was removing Italy from the war. In July 1943, American and British troops took control of the Italian island of Sicily. On September 8,1943 Italy's new government surrendered to the allies, but German troops continued to fight which brought a long struggle to the allies.

  3. D-Day • On June 6, 1944, a day known as D-Day more than 155,000 American, British, and Canadian troops crossed the English Chanel. They landed on five beaches at Normandy. • Four beaches quickly became German opposition, but the fifth beach known as Omaha Beach Americans met a fierce German defense. By days end Omaha Beach consisted of 2,500 dead Americans. HOWEVER, they had succeeded their mission. After a month a million ally troops had stormed the shore. • August 25, 1944- the allies entered Paris liberating French men, women , and children.

  4. The Beaches of Normandy

  5. Battle of the Bulge December 16, 1944, Germans counter attacked in Belgium. Hitler used his remaining reserves, Bad weather and grounded aircraft for the first week of the battle allowed Germans to create a bulge in American lines. The Germans were unable to break through American lines, but Germans were running short of critical supplies. Each side lost tens of thousands of men. Allies had additional troops, while Germany was running out of soldiers. During Northern Europe's coldest winter in 40 years. American forces won the Battle of the Bulge.

  6. Germany Invaded January 1945, a large Soviet force entered Germany from the east. Western Allies entered from the West. April 12,1945, President Franklin D. Roosevelt died of a stroke. Harry S. Truman (Vice President at the time) took over presidency, but he had little experience dealing with policy issues. FDR Truman

  7. Victory in Europe April 16, Soviet troops began assaultingBerlin. Hitler took refuge in a bunker built beneath the streets, he later committed suicide on April 30, 1945. One week later Germanys armed forces surrendered at Eisenhower’s headquarters in France.

  8. Island Hopping American commanders used a strategy known as “island hopping.”on August 7, 1942, U.S. marines landed on Guadalcanal in south pacific. Americans fought for 6 grueling months until they controlled this island. This was expected by the marines.

  9. Island hopping (2) Navajo soldiers used their own language to communicate between islands. January 1945 the U.S. army landed on Luzon, Philippines, they later advanced to Manila. After a month of urban warfare they secured the city. The death toll was 14,000 Americans, 350,000 Japanese, and 100,000 Filipino civilians.

  10. Iwo Jima and Okinawa These battles were very costly to the United States. 6,000 Americans died at Iwo Jima and 12,000 at Okinawa. Most of the Japanese rather die than surrender. Towards the end of the war, the Japanese used a different style of combat. This was called Kamikaze missions. After Hitler’s defeat we began bombarding the Japanese islands.

  11. Okinawa Beach Iwo Jima

  12. The Atomic Bomb President Truman was scared of too many casualties but he learned of the atomic bomb being tested in New Mexico. This bomb is powerful enough to destroy a whole city. On August 6, 1945, the city of Hiroshima was bombed. More than 130,000 people had been killed. Three days later another atomic bomb was dropped in Nagasaki 35,000 people died instantly. Many died from radiation exposer later on. After five days this marked the end of World War 2.

  13. The Holocaust Nazism was racist, and with anti-Semitism, because of this Hitler established a “Final Solution” for the Jewish race. In the end 6,000,000 Jews were murdered. This is known as the Holocaust.

  14. Death Camps The Nazi’s used an efficient system of mass murder, they did this by kill hundreds of people in gas chambers others were subjected to torture or horrifying experiments. War Crimes Trials were held in the German city of Nuremberg. In these trials people were punished for the brutality they committed during the war.

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