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The Allies Win the War
  • Lesson 5

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A New Kind of WAR
  • Moved quickly by tanks, ship, and airplanes.
  • Didnt live in trenches
  • Bombs dropped by planes destroyed everything
    including thousands of civilians
  • Area covering almost half the world
  • Fought on two major front, or battle lines
  • Africa and Europe and the other the Pacific

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War in Africa and Europe
  • Allies battle plan in Europe
  • Gain control of the Mediterranean Sea
  • Invade Italy
  • Defeat Germans and Italians in North Africa
  • September 1943, Italians surrendered.
  • German forces kept fighting

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D Day
  • June 6, 1944, the largest water-to-land invasion
    in history
  • General Dwight D.Eisenhower led the invasion.
  • American, Canadian, and British troops crossed
    the English Channel.
  • Landed on the beaches of Normandy, in France
  • Many troops died, but the invasion was successful.

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Fighting Continues at Normandy
  • Allies broke through the German lines
  • Moved inland, pushing back the enemy
  • Germans counterattacked at the Battle of the
    Bulge in December 1944
  • American general, George Patton turned the
    Germans back.
  • Patton was the most outstanding general during
    the invasion of France.

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Russia helps Out
  • Also fighting the Germans
  • Pushed back from the east.
  • May 1945 Allied troops from the east and west met
    near Berlin, the German capital
  • Learned Hitler had killed himself.
  • Berlin fell to the Soviets on May 2, 1945
  • Germany surrendered on May 8, 1945
  • Victory in Europe Day or V-E Day
  • End of the War in Europe

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President Roosevelt Dies
  • Did not live to see the end of World War II.
  • Died on April 12, 1945
  • Vice President Harry S. Truman became President.

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The Holocaust
  • Jews, Gypsies, and people with disabilities were
    hated by Hitler and the Nazis.
  • Put in concentration camps.
  • Some were used for cruel medical experiments.
  • Arrested Jews all over the world.
  • Mass murdered the Jews, known as the Holocaust.
    More than 12 million men, women, and children
    were killed. At least 6 million were JEWS.

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War in the Pacific
  • The Second front of the war.
  • Japanese troops landed in the Philippines after
    bombing Pearl Harbor.
  • Forced Americans to surrender
  • General Douglas McArthur promised the people of
    the Philippines, I shall return.
  • Two years later, he did.

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Turning Point
  • Japanese seemed to be winning the war.
  • May 1942, the U.S. navy defeated the Japanese
    fleet in the Battle of the Coral Sea.
  • In June, American ships sank four enemy aircraft
    carriers at the Battle of Midway.
  • Japans navy never recovered its losses!
  • Allies began forcing Japanese from the lands they
    had taken over.

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Island Hopping
  • American plan to take back only the most
    important islands on the way to Japan.
  • Allies bombed Japan from the air to weaken the
    soldiers there
  • General McArthur began his invasion to take back
    the Philippine Islands, as promised.
  • Battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa were bloody and
    cost thousands of lives.

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A Secret Weapon
  • President Truman found out former President
    Roosevelt had allowed the development of the
    Atomic Bomb
  • The most powerful bomb the world had ever known.
  • Summer of 1945, the atomic bomb was ready.
  • Truman wanted to end the war quickly to save
    American lives.

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The Sky Explodes
  • August 6, 1945, the American bomber, Enola Gay
    dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima.
  • A flash like an exploding Sun
  • Mushroom shaped cloud rose from the city
  • Killed over 75,000 civilians
  • Japan still DID NOT SURRENDER!

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The Second Bomb
  • August 9, 1945, the United States dropped the
    second bomb on Japan.
  • Nagasaki.
  • Japan surrendered on August 15, 1945
  • V-J Day or Victory over Japan Day.
  • World War II was FINALLY over!
  • Over 300,000 Americans dead and over 15 millions
    other soldiers from other countries died in the
    fighting.

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Improved Medicine
  • Penicillin and sulfa helped fight infections.
  • DDT, a new chemical to kill mosquitoes helped
    prevent malaria and other diseases.

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A Changed World
  • Another world organization of nations
  • U.S. supported it this time
  • United Nations was formed in April 1945.
  • Goal was to keep world peace
  • Promote cooperation among nations

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Changes in Technology
  • Airplanes became a major weapon.
  • Drones, planes that flew without pilots dropped
    bombs on cities.
  • Transport planes parachuted soldiers into battle.
  • Aircraft carriers launched plans from the sea.
  • Antiaircraft guns, special cannons
  • Radio detection and ranging RADAR, could located
    planes and ships in bad weather or at night.

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America, the Strongest Nation
  • America became the worlds strongest nation
  • Helped other nations rebuild
  • Trouble on the horizon
  • Soviet Union became bitter
  • Soviet Union set up a communist government
  • Communism is a system in which all property is
    owned by the government.

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U.S. Opinion of Communism
  • Saw communism as a threat to freedom
  • Helped support countries in their fight against
    the spread of communism.
  • Hostility, or unfriendliness developed between
    the free world and the communist countries.
  • Called the cold war because it was fought with
    propaganda and money instead of soldiers and
    weapons.
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