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CHAPTER 22 SECTION 4
THE END OF WWII
1) To end the war, an attack would be made on
WESTERN EUROPE
_________________________.
6 MONTHS
Allied troops prepared for ________________.
GENERAL DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER
_________________________________
orchestrated the attack.
LAND MINES
Germans planted _________________________
and _____________________
on the
BARBED WIRE
beaches of Northern France.
D-DAY
June 6, 1944 = “_________________________”
This was known as OPERATION
OVERLORD
______________________.
The Allies would cross the
ENGLISH CHANNEL
______________________
and attack France.
170,000
Over ____________________
Allied troops
landed on ____________________
NORMANDY BEACH in France.
Allied forces from the _________,
U.S.
GREAT BRITAIN
CANADA
_____________________
and ____________
attacked on 5 beaches:
UTAH, OMAHA, GOLD, JUNO AND SWORD
___________________________________________
The attack was possible since the Allies
TRICKED
___________________
Hitler.
Hitler believed the Allies would land farther up the
FRENCH COAST
________________________.
LAND-AIR-SEA
This was the largest __________________________
operation in history!
D-DAY INVASION
1 MILLION
More than _______________________
Allied
troops would land in France.
By September, the Allies had
LIBERATED
______________________
many European
countries including France.
The Allies had entered the country of
GERMANY
________________________!
CEMETARY ON NORMANDY BEACH
2) The Allies wanted Hitler to
SURRENDER
________________________.
BOMBED
The Allies ________________
German cities day
and night.
ATTACK
The NAZIs made one more major______________
- the battle was known as the
BATTLE OF THE BULGE
“_______________________________”
in
December 1944.
Germany at first cut deep into
ALLIED DEFENSES
___________________
but were forced to
_______________________
toward the capital
RETREAT
BERLIN
of _________________.
3) With Soviet troops surrounding his bunker,
ADOLF HITLER
______________________
saw his Third
Reich coming to an end.
On April 30, 1945, the leader of NAZI Germany
__________________________.
COMMITTED SUICIDE
On May 7, 1945, Germany ______________________.
SURRENDERED
EUROPE
On May 8, 1945, the war in ____________________
was officially over!
The day came to be known as “_________________”
V-E DAY
4) When Allied troops moved into Germany,
EVIDENCE
they found ____________________
that a
horrible act had occurred.
HOLOCAUST
The ______________________
was the mass
murder of Jews by the NAZIs
Hitler decided on the
FINAL SOLUTION
“_________________________”
to rid
Europe of all his “enemies”
This was ___________________
- A planned act
GENOCIDE
to murder an entire People.
DEATH CAMPS
People were sent to ______________________
with
gas chambers.
Over _____________________
Jews were killed.
6 MILLION
Over _____________________
of other groups were
3 MILLION
killed.
Many people ________________
DENIED
that these events
occurred.
Many people were tried for war crimes at the
NUREMBERG TRIALS
________________________________.
A total of _________________________
were
12 NAZI OFFICERS
sentenced to death.
NUREMBERG TRIALS
5) After Germany surrendered, the Allies went
PACIFIC OCEAN
to the ___________________________
to continue the war.
Allies had retaken the
PHILIPPINE ISLANDS
______________________________.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR
General __________________________
had
also returned.
Allies took the last two islands under
JAPANESE
_____________________
control in 1945.
The Allies did not want to attack Japan due to a possible
HUGE LOSS OF LIFE
_____________________________.
BOMBED
The Allies instead __________________
Japan day and
night.
F. D. ROOSEVELT
As ________________________
was planning to meet
with Stalin and Churchill, he fell ill. He died on
April 12, 1945.
HARRY S. TRUMAN
__________________________
became President.
Truman’s biggest decision: Should we use an
__________________________?
ATOMIC BOMB
FDR DIES…….TRUMAN TAKES OVER
Truman believed using it would save
THOUSANDS OF LIVES
__________________________________.
On August 6, 1945, the Enola Gay flew over the
HIROSHIMA
city of _____________________
and dropped “____________________”
LITTLE BOY
SURRENDER
Japan refused to ________________________.
On August 9, 1945, the Bockscar flew over the
NAGASAKI
city of ______________________
and dropped “___________________”
FAT MAN
Japan agreed to end the war on
AUGUST 14, 1945
____________________________.
V-J DAY
This became known as “_________________”.
WWII was officially over.