Transcript The Allied Victory

The Allied Victory
How do the Allies defeat the Axis Powers?
Planning the Victory
1943: Allied leaders first meet at Tehran Conference, plans on
beating Hitler in Europe
FDR & Churchill meet with Chiang Kai-Shek to discuss Asia at
the Cairo Conference
1945: Big three meet at Yalta discuss post-war plans, will meet
later at Potsdam
D-Day: Invasion of Normandy (European War)
June 6 1944: Allies launch an invasion in N. France
Led by Gen. George Patton, 150K allied troops land, thousands killed
Gen Omar Bradley begins air assault, Allies winning within a month
Nov 1944: FDR reelected for fourth term
Great Britain
With Soviets pushing from East, Hitler counter attacks in West
Dec 1944: Battle of the Bulge, Germans lose must retreat
•April 1945: FDR dies
•4/30/1945: Hitler’s suicide, 5/7 Germany surrenders to Ike (VE Day)
•Nov 1945: Nuremberg Trials – former Nazis appear before military
tribunal, most found guilty
The Pacific War
March 1945: After a month of bitter fighting, the Allies take the island
of Iwo Jima (over 18K-Japan, 6K-Allies killed)
April 1945: Battle of Okinawa, one of the bloodiest battles of the war:
100K Japanese & 19K Allied troops killed in a month and a half
Despite the heavy casualties, Japan refuses to surrender. Allies
preparing for a full-scale invasion of Japan
The Manhattan Project
FDR had given okay for developing an atomic bomb
General Leslie R. Groves & physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer
developed bombs at Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico
•Weapon could release
more energy than 20,000
tons of TNT
•July 1945: Gadget was
exploded during “trinity
Test”
Trinity Test
•Truman informed of the new weapons, August 6, 1945 a plane named
Enola Gay dropped “Little Boy” on the city of Hiroshima
•Japan doesn’t surrender. Three days later, a plane named Bockscar
dropped the third bomb named “Fat Man” on Nagasaki
•Japan surrenders on Aug 13th, 1945 (V-J Day)