Transcript WHPP Unit 6 Section 4 Forward to Victory

Unit 6 Section 4
Forward to Victory
TYWL: Global interaction may be caused by conflict. / Forces of
imperialism, nationalism, militarism and geo-political alliances, taken to
the extreme, can lead to international conflicts. / Nationalism and the
quest for power are often underlying causes for war. / Conflict occurs
when compromise over land, national identity and colonial possessions is
no longer an option between those in authority and those they serve. /
America Strikes Back
• Spring of 1942, things don’t look good for
Allies
• Soviet Union has been invaded, the US Navy
has been crippled, the British are bogged
down in North Africa, and the Nazi flag flies
over Paris.
• America is eager for a victory over Japan
Doolittle Raid
• Lt. Colonel James
Doolittle leads a
bombing mission over
Tokyo
• Important boost for
United States morale
• Shows Japanese they
are vulnerable to attack
Midway
• American Navy surprises Japanese force at
island of Midway – June, 1942
• Japanese lose more than 300 planes
• Also lose all FOUR of their carriers
• MIDWAY IS THE TURNING POINT OF THE WAR
IN THE PACIFIC
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Island Hopping
• US goes on the offensive after Midway..."Island
Hopping“
• Island Hopping - strategy of bypassing heavily
guarded Japanese islands and focusing on
strategically placed, less defended islands.
• US wins important victory at Guadalcanal, Solomon
Islands.
– Sea, air, and land battle. Fierce, bloody combat between
US Marines and Japanese Army Of 36,000 Japanese
soldiers, 31,000 are killed
Guadalcanal
Important Victory:
• Psychological Victory
• Stops Japanese
advance
• Gives US strategic
airfield
USS North Carolina in Pacific Theatre
El Alamein
• Meanwhile, on the other side of the world...The
Battle of El Alamein
• British launch a major assault against Rommel in
North Africa
• Rommel's force is driven West into American army
led by General Eisenhower
• Rommel is trapped between the British and an
American force of 100,000 men
• Rommel's force is destroyed by May 1943.
Battle of Stalingrad
• Germans have failed to take Leningrad or
Moscow.
• Hitler sends 6th Army to take Stalingrad - a
major industrial city
• Battle begins August, 1942.
• Bombing reduces city to rubble
• Stalin orders city not to surrender at any cost
Stalingrad as Turning Point in Europe
• Soviet troops outside city launch a counter
attack, surrounding Germans.
• Winter sets in...Hitler forbids surrender
• Feb. 2, 1943 - 90,000 German troops
surrender (had been 330,000)
• Soviets lose 1 Million troops in Stalingrad, but
now they are on the offensive
• The Turning Point in Europe
Taking Italy
• Italy seen as “soft
underbelly” of Europe
• Allies land in July, 1943;
finally take Rome in
June of 1944
• Fierce German
resistance
• Mussolini is captured by
Italian partisans in 1945
and shot
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D-Day: The Liberation of France
• Since earliest days of war, Stalin has wanted
British and Americans to attack in France.
• Germans knew attack was coming...they just
didn't know where.
• June 6, 1944 - Allies launch invasion at
Normandy, France.
• Allied Invasion of France is known as
Operation Overlord
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D-Day Continued
• D-Day Invasion was the largest land and sea
assault in history - force of 3 million troops
eventually landed.
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Battle of the Bulge
• By September, Allies freed France and Belgium
from the Germans. Set sights on Germany...
• Last German offensive in the West, Battle of the
Bulge*, takes place in December of 1944.
• Over 89,000 US troops are killed, captured, or
wounded.
• Allies regroup and drive the Germans back…
• By March, Berlin is surrounded...Hitler kills
himself in April. Germany surrenders in May of
1945.
*Author Kurt Vonnegut was captured during the Battle of the Bulge, and later wrote about his war experiences
in the book Slaughterhoue Five. Click on the link to read a letter to his family explaining what he lived through.
End in the Pacific
• In the Pacific,
Americans retake the
Philippines.
• Japanese begin
Kamikaze warfare
• Americans win bitter
victory at Iwo Jima
• Fearing huge casualties
from an invasion,
President Harry Truman
decides to use new
weapon on Japan
The Atomic Bomb
• Atomic bomb is
dropped on Hiroshima August 6, 1945. 80,000
people are killed.
• 2nd bomb dropped on
Nagasaki three days
later - 70,000 are killed.
• Japan surrenders on
September 2nd, 1945
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