Transcript The Allied Victory

The Allied Victory
How do the Allies defeat the Axis Powers?
Planning the Victory
Big Three meet in Tehran to plan victory in Europe, FDR &
Churchill go to Cairo meet w/ Chiang Kai-shek to plan Pac War
1945: Big three meet at Yalta to discuss post-war plans, will
meet later that year at Potsdam to finalize plans
D-Day: Invasion of Normandy (European War)
June 6 1944: Allies launch an invasion in N. France
Led by Eisenhower & Monty, 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
Dec 1944: With Soviets pushing from East, Hitler counterattacks
West at the Battle of the Bulge, Germans lose must retreat
•April 1945: FDR dies, VP Truman now President
•4/30/1945: Hitler’s suicide, 5/7/45- Germany surrenders to Ike (VE Day)
•Nov 1945: Nuremberg Trials – Nazis appear before military tribunal,
most found guilty
The Pacific War
March 1945: Allies take the island of Iwo Jima (over 18K-Japan, 6KAllies killed in one month)
April 1945: Battle of Okinawa, one of the bloodiest battles of the Pac
war: 100K Japanese & 19K Allied troops killed in a month and a half
Japan refuses to surrender. Allies preparing for an invasion of Japan
The Manhattan Project
Gen Leslie R. Groves & physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer developed
Atomic bombs at Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico
•A-Bomb could release
more energy than 20,000
tons of TNT
•July 1945: Gadget was
exploded during “Trinity
Test”
Trinity Test
•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 “Fat Man” on Nagasaki
•Japan surrenders on Aug 14th, 1945 (V-J Day)