Bell Ringer

What was the turning point in both the European Theater?

What event characterized the brutal and savage fighting in the Pacific?

What was the Geneva Convention?

End of the War

D-Day Battle of the Bulge Manhattan Project Atomic Bomb

Normandy June 6, 1944 “D-day” Largest land-sea-air

military attack in army history

Heavy causalities but Allies are able to control beaches

By August1944 Allied troops liberate France and march towards Berlin

Battle of the Bulge

December 1944 Germany's last

attempt across Allied Lines

Permanently cripples Nazi forces

Allied troops liberate death camps on their march towards Berlin

End of WWII in the European Theater

April 1945 Soviets storm Berlin Hitler kills himself in his bunker on April 30,

1945 Eisenhower accepts unconditional

surrender of the Third Reich V.E. Day- Victory in Europe Day – May 8,

1945

Manhattan Project 1942-1946

Project to develop the Atomic Bomb

J. Robert Oppenheimer

600,000 Americans involved

Trial run in Alamogordo, NM

Hiroshima and Nagasaki

August 6, 1945 “Little Boy” and “Fat

Boy” 200,000 radiation

related deaths Japanese Surrender

September 2, 1945

For or Against the Atomic Bomb's Use

Using Page 791 in your books read the critical thinking section on the use of the atomic bomb.

Discuss with your partner on on whether you agree or disagree with the decision to use the atomic bomb.

Class discussion