Transcript WWII Ends
WWII Ends
WWII Ends
D-Day was a success, but the allied forces
needed more
• Needed to liberate France and advance into
Germany
Battle of the Bulge
• Germans surrounded the American occupied
city of Bastogne
General Patton came with reinforcements
• Broke the German lines
• After 3 weeks of fighting, the Germans began
to retreat
• Nothing was in the way of Americans entering
Germany
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Americans started marching into
Germany
• Russians were closing in on the Eastern
Front
Knowing defeat was inevitable, Hitler
committed suicide
Germany finally surrenders
• V-E Day
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War is still going on in the Pacific
• FDR dies in 1945
Harry S Truman takes over
Immediately had to make important
decisions about Japan
Island Hopping
• Iwo Jima
Able to fire bomb Japan
• Okinawa
Very close to Japan
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With allies getting closer to Japan,
surrender seems close
• Emperor had to stay in power
Truman would not accept that
• Fighting continued
Manhattan Project
• Research project being done on atomic
bomb
Fully functional by 1945
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Truman was now faced with two choices
• Use bomb or continue fighting
Positives and negatives to both
• Truman decided to drop the atomic bomb
Hiroshima first, Nagasaki second
• Massive destruction
Many civilians died
Forces Japan to surrender
• V-J Day
Assignment
World War II was one of the first
documented wars.
These photographic images became very
famous and showed the public what war
was really like.
Look through chapter 20 sec 5 and look at
the images on the following pages 640,
641, 644, 645, 646, and 648
Write your own caption to the picture,
then write the significance of each image