Transcript War Strategies - Hoffman Estates High School

 May
and June of 1942
 Stopped the Japanese advance West and
began the American push back toward
the mainland
 Four carriers and 300 planes destroyed
• May and June of 1942
• Stopped the Japanese advance West and
began the American push back toward the
mainland
• Four carriers and 300 planes destroyed
 Developed
by
Admiral Chester
Nimitz
 Allowed U.S. to
bypass heavily
fortified islands to
those closer to
Japan.
 Essentially
worked to cut off
supply lines to
those islands held
by Japanese
 One
of the largest naval battles of all time
 Introduced kamikaze pilots
 Kamikazes
inflict major
damage
 50,000
American
casualties and
100,000
Japanese killed
 U.S. can reach
mainland Japan
 Dropped
on
Hiroshima August 6
& Nagasaki August
9 1945
 Unconditional,
formal surrender
September 2, 1945
 Convey
system used
to protect allied
ships from U-boats
 Battle
for Northern Africa begins in 1942
led by Eisenhower and Montgomery.
 Germans driven off Africa and retreat to
Italy by May of 1943
 Mussolini falls from power in 1943 and
allies invade Italy in September of 1943
and stay there fighting until end of war
May 1945
 June
6, 1944
 Largest invasion by sea in history
 British Canadian, and French forces all
contribute
 Paris falls by August
 By September German border crossed
 Battle of Bulge was last German offensive
 War ends with invasion of Berlin by the
Soviets from the East and Americans from
the West
 Rumors
persisted since 1942 with the
final solution actually decided in late
1941
 Pictures of camp
 6 million jews killed
 12-13 million total