chronicle the events that led to victory for the allied powers in wwii analyze the reasons why the...
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• Chronicle the events that led to victory for the Allied Powers in WWII
• Analyze the reasons why the Axis powers lost/Allied powers won WWII
• Dday = • Rest of the War…
– December 1944 = Battle of the Bulge– February 1945 = Yalta Conference– April 1945 = Mussolini’s end– April-May 1945 = Race to Berlin
• May 8 = VE Day– Summer 1945 = Beating Japan
• August 14 = VP Day
• Must get what out of the Germans (this time)
• Germany and Berlin to be split up into 4 zones– rebuilding to be
done in the 4 zones
• Cartoon?
• Stalin allowed to reshape Eastern European countries– Poland is
major issue
– Stalin agrees to free elections (ha!!)
• Incendiary bombs were used…create fires
• Cultural Center of Dresden destroyed
• Most military targets not damaged
• Oil refineries not damaged
• 35-100K deaths– ~85-100K deaths in
atom bomb attacks• 2 months from end
of the war
•Benito Mussolini captured and killed by the Italian people
• April 25, 1945 Stalin beats Eisenhower to Berlin
• April 29, 1945 Hitler found dead in Bunker–Goebbels found dead too
• May 8, 1945 = V-E Day–Victory in Europe Day
• Your ideas?• Hitler = made mistakes
with Suez Canal and Operation Barbarossa
• Hitler physically ill…mentally ill also?
• Germany out-produced by Allies
• FDR, Churchill and Stalin let Generals do the work
• FDR dies April 12, 1945• Unprepared Harry Truman takes over…• Truman will be much more blunt &
confrontational than FDR was–Good for what?
#5
• Okinawa is the last major battle against Japan
• Kamikaze planes (suicide planes dw) reveal something to USA– Japan will fight to
the death– Japanese
propaganda
• Top Secret plan to build Atomic Bomb
• As VP, Truman didn’t know about it
• When inaugurated, he was finally told
• Bat Bomb
• Truman tells Stalin of Atomic Bomb (?)
• Truman gets Stalin’s support to beat Japan– Does he want it?
• Warning issued to Japan to surrender unconditionally– Japan has no answer
• Poland????
• 2 Options– Drop A-Bomb
(pro/con)– Invade with US army
(pro/con)• Is time on his side?
• Hiroshima, Aug 6, 1945
• Nagasaki, Aug 9, 1945
• Death toll?– At least 100K– Some estimates at
200K• V-J Day follows
– victory in Japan
1. Rebuilding Japan and Germany
2. United Nations created
3. Nuremburg Trials
• Germany = 4 occupation zones
• GB, USA, France and Russia will rebuild
• Version 2.0 of what org?– League of Nations
• 50 Countries join 1945• Goal?
– Peace...no war– Human rights
• UN Security Council made up of 5 winners of WW2…veto power – USA– GB– France– USSR– China
• 24 Nazis on trial– 16 charged with war
crimes• “Crimes against
Humanity”– 12 sentenced to death, 3
life sentences• Effects of Trials =
political and military leaders held accountable for Holocaust
• Justice?
• Cold War• Europe is in
shambles– In whose image
will it be rebuilt?
WWII leads to…