Chapter 16 Sec.4
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World History
Chapter 16 Sec.4
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Terms
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Battle of Stalingrad
D-Day
Battle of the Bulge
Kamikaze
* Dwight D. Eisenhower *
• During his career as a
U.S. General he showed
an uncommon ability
kind to work with all
kinds of people(even his
competitive allies).
• He got named Supreme
Commander in Dec.
1943.
• He put a permanent end
to Nazi Aggression.
•Began on Aug.23,1942.
•There was nightly bombing raids
by the Luftwaffes that set the city
ablaze.
•By early Nov. 1942 Germans
controlled 90% of the ruined city.
•The Russian winter forced some
90,000 frostbitten, ½ starved
German troops to surrender to the
Soviets.
The Allied Home Fronts
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Wherever Allied forces fought, people on the home fronts
rallied to support them.
In war-torn countries like the Soviet Union and Great Britain,
civilians endured extreme hardships.
Except for a few of its territories, such as Hawaii, the U.S did not
suffer invasion or bombing.
Nonetheless, Americans at home made a crucial contribution
to the Allied war effort.
Americans produced the weapons and equipment that helped
win the war.
Mobilizing for War
• Deafening the Axis
powers required
mobilizing for total war.
• In the U.S. factories
converted there peacetime
operations to the war
production.
• By 1944, between 17 & 18
million workers –many of
them women-had jobs in
war industries.
War Limits Civil Rights
• Government
propaganda had a
negative effect.after
Pearl Harbor, a wave
of prejudice rose in the
U.S.against the
Japanese Americans.
D-Day Invasion
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By May 1944 the
invasion force was
ready .
Thousands of war
vehicles and 3 million
troops awaited the
order to attack.
Code name operation
Overlord,the
invasion of
Normandy , was the
largest land and sea
attack in history.
The invasion started
on June 6,1944 (a.k.a.
D-Day)
The American forces
lost 2,700 men that
single day.
Battle of the Bulge
With allies attacking from the west and the soviet
union on the east, Hitler faced a war on two fronts
In a desperate gamble, He tried to counterattack in
the west. He hoped the victory would split up
American& British forces& break up allied supply
lines
On December16, Germany tanks broke thought
weak American defenses along a 75-mile front in
the Ardennes
Germany’s Unconditional
Surrender
• After the battle of the bulge, the war in
Europe rapidly came to a close.
• While soviet shells bust over Berlin, Hitler
prepared for his end in underground
headquarters beneath the city.
• On may 71945 General Eisenhower
accepted the unconditional surrender of the
Third Reich from the German military
Victory in the Pacific
• Although the war in
Europe was over, the
Allies were still fighting
the Japanese in the pacific.
• With the allies Victory at
Guadalcanal, However ,
the rest of the war , the
Japanese retreated before
the counters attack of the
allied powers
The Japanese in Retreat
In October 1949 allied forces landed on the
islands of Leytte in the Philippines.
The Japanese devised plan that would halt
the allied advance. They would destroy the
American fleet,k preventing the allies from
resupplying their ground troops.
Kamikazes
• They were basically crazy japanese
people.
• They would give their lives for there
countrey.
• They lost 100,000 troops and we lost
12,000of our troops.
• When the U.S. would meet the Japianese
they would put up a dispirit fight.
The Atomic Bomb
•The A Bomb was a
powerful new weapons
developed by the topsecret Manhattom
project headed by
general Leslie
Grooves and Chief
scientist J. Robert
Oppenheimer.
The Japanese Surrender
• President Truman’s advisers had
informed him that an invasion of the
japanese home land might cost the
allies ½ a million lives.
• Truman first learned of the new
bomb’s existence when he became
president.
The Japanese
Surrender(cont.)
• The first atomic bomb was dropped in a desert
in New Mexico in July 16, 1945.
• Japanese city of nearly 350,000 people.
Between 70,000 and 80,000 died in the
attack.
Reference Page
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Modern World History Textbook
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Ch. 16 Sec.4 Assessment
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When was the battle of Stalingrad?
What were Kamikazes?
What was D-Day code-name?
Who was the President during WWII?
When did the allied forces land on the island of Leyta
(LAA-Tee)?
6. T-F The battle of the Bulge was on Dec. 16.
Ch. 16 Sec.4 Assessment
7.When was the 1ST atomic bomb
tested?
8.What General did the Japanese
surrender to?
9.When did D-Day begin?
10.T-F – The American president was
Theodore Roosevelt.