Transcript 14.5 The War Ends

14.5:
The War Ends
2. Battle of the Bulge: Last German
Offensive (Belgium) (Dec. 1944)
a. Allies caught off guard
b. Did not believe intelligence
reports of imminent attack
c. Germany unable to recover
the rest of the war
FDR Passes away
April 12, 1945
President Harry Truman
Hitler and wife commit suicide
April 30, 1945
V-E Day
Victory in Europe
May 8, 1945
On to finish Japan
Iwo Jima
Iwo Jima needed for
refueling and supplies
Okinawa closer to the
main island of Japan
B. The Atomic Bomb
1. Manhattan Project
a.
b.
c.
Oppenheimer;
lead scientist
Develop atomic
bomb
Testing showed
bomb had more
power than
predicted
2. To Bomb or not to bomb?
a. Some against; immoral
b. Some –use it
i. as warning for Soviets
ii. It’s built, so use it
iii. Expense of making
c. Truman approves dropping bomb
3. Hiroshima and Nagasaki
a. Aug 6, 1945: bomb
dropped on
Hiroshima; Japan
does not surrender
b. Aug 9,1945: second
bomb dropped on
Nagasaki
c. Sep 2, 1945
Hirohito formally
surrenders to Gen.
MacArthur
“Yalta Conference”
Nuremberg War Trials
Trials of Nazi leaders at Nuremberg, Germany
3. Occupation of Japan
a. Japanese leaders
tried as well
b. MacArthur takes
lead
i.
ii.
iii.
Free-market
economy
New constitution
Free elections
Munich Conference
Chamberlain, Dalider, Hitler, Mussolini