Transcript World War 2 Ends Powerpoint

THERE IS LIGHT AT THE END
OF THE TUNNEL
Allied Victory in Europe
 The D-Day Invasion
 U.S. & GB plan a secret attack on Normandy,
France  3.5 million troops gathering
 Operation Overlord, under Ike, called for fake attack
on Calais to keep Germans guessing
 June 6, 1944 is known as D-Day
 Originally 3,000 American soldiers died on the beaches
that day
 Over the next month more troops were sent in and
by late August the Allies had liberated France,
Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands
D-Day June 6, 1944
Normandy Landing (June 6, 1944)
German Prisoners
Higgins Landing Crafts
July 20th, 1944 Assassination
Plot
Major Claus von
Stauffenberg
July 20th, 1944 Assassination
Plot
1. Adolf Hitler
2. Field Marshall Wilhelm Keitel
3. Gen Alfred von Jodl
4. Gen Walter Warlimont
5. Franz von Sonnleithner
6. Maj Herbert Buchs
7. Stenographer Heinz Buchholz
8. Lt Gen Hermann Fegelein
9. Col Nikolaus von Below
10. Rear Adm Hans-Erich Voss
11. Otto Gunsche, Hitler's adjutant
12. Gen Walter Scherff (injured)
13. Gen Ernst John von Freyend
14. Capt Heinz Assman (injured)
Allied Victory in Europe
 The Battle of the Bulge
 Allied forces from the west and Soviet forces from the
east  two fronts for Hitler
 German movements caught Allies off guard but Allies
were still able to push back the Germans
 Hitler is cooked
 Germany’s Unconditional Surrender
 Hitler marries his longtime companion Eva Braun, also
wrote one final address to his people blaming the
Jews for starting the war and his generals for losing it
 May 1st, Hitler shot himself after taking poison and Eva
simply swallowed the poison
 May 8th, official day of German surrender and now
known as V-E day, or Victory in Europe day
Battle of the Bulge:
Hitler’s Last Offensive
Dec. 16, 1944
To
Jan. 28, 1945
Hitler Commits Suicide
April 30, 1945
Cyanide
and
Pistols
The Fuhrer’s Bunker
Mr. and Mrs. Hitler
V-E Day (May 8, 1945)
Victory in the Pacific
 Battle of Leyte Gulf
 Japanese wanted to take out rest of the American
fleet, so they could not resupply themselves
 Japanese was no longer a major fighting force
 Kamikaze pilots would try to take out American
ships but not enough of them and Japan is now
severely weakened
 March 1945, Americans land on Iwo Jima
 Then onto island of Okinawa, sight of the
bloodiest land battle of the war
US Marines on Mt. Surbachi, Iwo
Jima [Feb. 19, 1945]
Victory in the Pacific
 The A-Bomb ends all hope and brings in a new era
 An invasion of Japan would result in catastrophic losses for
the Americans (~500,000 estimated)
 Truman, US President, had to decide to use the atomic
bomb
 Seen as the quickest possible end
 Truman warned the Japanese  no reply
 August 6th, 1945  Hiroshima bombed, loss of 73,000 from
365,000
 August 9th, 1945  Nagasaki bombed, loss of 37,500 from
200,000
 Japanese surrendered to General Douglas MacArthur on
September 2 on board of USS Missouri  WWII over
The Manhattan Project
AMERICAN PROJECT TO BUILD THE
ATOMIC BOMB, BEFORE GERMANY HAD
ONE. VERY SECRETIVE AND EXPENSIVE
PROJECT. NO ONE UNDERSTOOD WHAT
ITS POWER WOULD BE.
The Manhattan Project:
Los Alamos, NM
Dr. Robert
Oppenheimer
Major General
Lesley R. Groves
I am become
death, the
shatterer of
worlds
Tinian Island, 1945
Little Boy
Fat Man
Enola Gay crew
Hiroshima – August 6, 1945
 70,00 killed
immediately
 48,000 building
destroyed
 100,000s died of
radiation poisoning &
cancer later
Nagasaki – August 9, 1945
 40,000 killed
immediately
 60,000 injured
 100,000s died of
radiation poisoning &
cancer later
Japanese A-Bomb Survivors
Hiroshima Memorials
V-J Day (September 2, 1945)
Why did the Allies win?
 They were successful at Normandy in the D-Day
Campaign:
FAILURE WOULD HAVE GIVEN GERMANY
ANOTHER YEAR TO BUILD ITS DEFENSES,
AND COMPLETE THE FINAL SOLUTION.
Why did the Allies win?
 The Allied forces gained the strength of the
American manufacturing industries:
AMERICANS BUILT THE PLANES, TANKS,
SHIPS, AND GUNS TO FIGHT HITLER, NOT
JUST FOR US SOLDIERS BUT OUR ALLIES
AS WELL.
Why did the Allies win?
 The Allies had the Soviet Union as a strong
force to the East:
THE SOVIET ARMY WAS ABLE TO BLEED
THE GERMANS TO DEATH.