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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”. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Pushing the Axis Back
Striking Back at the 3rd Reich
A. Strategic BombingB. Striking at the
Underbelly (Sicily)1. Mussolini surrendered
Italy2. Roosevelt Meets Stalin in
Tehran
France- “Operation Overlord”A. Allies placed fake army at the coast
of Britain to convince Germans that the Allies planned to invade Calais
France- “Operation Overlord”B. D-Day: June 6,
1944
1. Allied invasion of French beaches at Normandy
2. Death and gore
Driving the Japanese BackA. Island-Hopping Campaign 1943:
U.S. offensive in the Pacific 1. Tarawa: the first American offensive in
the critical central Pacific region.
Driving Japanese Back
B. Philippines1. Guadalcanal/Leyte
Gulf: largest naval battle in U.S. History- U.S. troops ambushed, but force Japanese retreat
The War Ends
A. France LiberatedB. Battle of the
Bulge1. Last German
offensive 2. Great American
victory3. April 29, Hitler
commits suicide
The War Ends
C. V-E Day
1. May 8, 1945- Victory in Europe Day
Japan is Defeated
A. Roosevelt diesB. Truman takes
over1. Alamogordo,
N.M. had air field with regiments in training
Japan is DefeatedC. Iwo Jima: U.S. planes could bomb
Japan from there
D. Firebombing- Napalm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2lhJ32feec&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1&safe=active
Japan is DefeatedE. Okinawa
1. 82 day long battle2. Kamikaze ▪ were suicide attacks by Japanese military
aviators
Japan is Defeated
F. Manhattan Project- secret American program to build a atomic
1. Hiroshima- Aug. 6, 19452. Nagasaki- Aug. 9, 19453. Sept. 2, 1945
Japan is Defeated
G. Building a new world1. United Nations: created for countries to
solve differences peacefully as opposed to war
2. Nuremburg Trials- punish German leaders for war crimes