Transcript RUSSIAN FRONT PACIFIC FRONT

BALKAN FRONT
RUSSIAN FRONT
PACIFIC FRONT
D-DAY
END OF WWII
BALKAN FRONT
1941
Germany focusing on controlling oil
•Erwin Rommel (“Desert Fox”)
Oct 1942 Battle of El Alamein
•Rommel defeated
•Beginning of decline for Axis Powers
RUSSIAN FRONT
June 22, 1941 Hitler attacks Russia after failing against
England – “Operation Barbarossa”
a)Lebensraum
b)resources
Stalin calling for a “Second Front”
Stalin ordered “Scorched-Earth” policy
Jan 1943 Casablanca Conference
•only accept “unconditional surrender”
2/2/1943 Battle of Stalingrad
•Germany defeated
PACIFIC THEATER
9.27.1940
TRIPARTITE PACT
•Japan/Germany/Italy (AXIS POWERS)
Hideki Tojo pushing for expansion
•Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
Isoroku Yamamoto ordered “Operation Z”
•attack on Pearl Harbor
•"I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant"
12.7.1941 Japan attacks Pearl Harbor
•“Tora, Tora, Tora”
12.8.1941 – U.S. enters WWII
•FDR = “…day that will live in infamy”
PEARL HARBOR
3500 KILLED
“ARIZONA” - Memorial
WWII = TOTAL WAR
“Rosie the Riveter”
WASP’s
Lady Leathernecks
“Ultra”
“Magic”
“Navajo Language”
PACIFIC THEATER
February 1942
April 1942
April 1942
May 1942
Executive Order 9066
•”Nisei” (Japanese-Americans)
•Ronald Reagan (1988)
Doolittle’s Raid
Bataan Death March
•5000 died
Battle of Coral Sea
•stopped Japanese expansion to
south
PACIFIC THEATER
June 1942 Battle of Midway
•stopped Japanese expansion to the east
U.S. USED POLICY OF “ISLAND HOPPING”
August 1942
Battle of Guadalcanal
•1st Japanese territory U.S. won
•”Banzai Charges”
•”Bushido”
PACIFIC THEATER
June 1944
Battle of Saipan
•U.S. B-29’s in striking distance of Japan
Oct 1944
Battle of Leyte Gulf
•Largest naval battle in history
•”Kamikazes”
•”Shinyos”
Feb 1945
Battle of Iwo Jima
•1st base inside Japanese defense system
•Joe Rosenthal – photo of “Old Glory Goes Up On Mt
Suribachi”
•won 1945 Pulitzer Prize
April 1945
Battle of Okinawa
D-DAY – 6.6.1944
•“Operation Overlord”
•2nd front in Europe against Germany
•Attack at Normandy
•5 beaches – Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno, Sword
•133k soldiers in attack
•w/in 1 month – 1 million soldiers landed
-----------------------August 1944
Paris liberated
December 1944 Battle of Bulge
•last German offensive
•Malmedy Massacre
Feb 1945
“Big Three”
•FDR, Stalin, Churchill
•USSR agreed to help U.S. against Japan
•discussion of United Nations
DEATH OF WWII LEADERS
4.12.45
4.28.45
4.30.45
FDR dies (Harry Truman becomes president)
Mussolini hung
Hitler committed suicide
END OF WWII IN EUROPE
May 7, 1945 – “VE Day”
PACIFIC THEATER
U.S. has decide whether or not to invade Japan?
•”Operation Downfall”
•est. 1.5 million needed for initial attack
•est. casualties 250k – 1 million
July 1945 Potsdam Conference
•President Truman
•”the baby is born”
•Manhattan Project
•Robert Oppenheimer
QUESTION
Does President
Truman use
the bombs on
Japan?
ATOMIC BOMB FACTS
PACIFIC
THEATER
1.8 billion degrees
President
Truman
Drop the bombs!
•20x hotter
than–sun
August
6,tons
1945of TNT
“Little Boy” – Hiroshima
15k
Detonated
above
August
9, 1945 2000’
“Fat
Man”city
– Nagasaki
50,000’ Mushroom Cloud
+71,000
vaporized
instantly
END OF WWII IN PACIFIC
Blast moving at 9000 mph
4 square miles2,
instantly
September
1945 destroyed
– “VJ Day”
Radiation
“fallout” on USS Missouri
Japan
surrenders
POST WWII
1)United Nations created
2)Nuremburg Trials
3)Marshall Plan
4)Germany/Berlin
divided
BERLIN 5)Beginning of Cold War