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Allies vs Axis
ALLIED POWERS
AXIS POWERS
Argentina Iran Bulgaria Australia Ira
q Germany Belgium Lebanon Hungary Bolivi
a Liberia Italy Brazil Luxembourg Ja
pan Canada Mexico Romania Chile Nether
lands Thailand China New
Zealand Colombia Nicaragua Costa
Rica Norway Cuba Panama Czechoslovakia Par
aguay Denmark Peru Dominican
Republic Poland Ecuador Russia
(USSR) Egypt San Marino El Salvador Saudi
Arabia Ethiopia South Africa France Syria
Great Britain Turkey Greece United
States Guatemala Uruguay Haiti Venezuela Hon
duras Yugoslavia India
Big 3 Countries

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WWII POLITICAL
WWII POLITICAL LEADERS
ALLIES AXIS
THE BIG THREE WINSTON CHURCHILLGreat
Britain FDR---U.S. JOSEPH STALIN---Soviet Union
BENITO MUSSOLINIADOLF HITLERHIDEKI TOJO
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WAR CONFERENCES
War Production, shipping, aid for China,
diversion of German strength from Eastern Front
and a North African invasion.
Dec. 1941 to Jan. 1942 June 1942
Washington Conference1st 2nd
FDR Winston ChurchillBig 2

Plans for invasion of Sicily and to step up
Pacific WarD-day invasion in 1944 onto French
coast. Unconditional Surrender of Germany
FDR Winston ChurchillBig 2
CasablancaConference
Jan. 1943
1st time Big 3 meet. Stalin demands 2nd front
onto French coast. Date of D-day invasion
decided General Eisenhower appointed as
commander of Allies
FDRWinston ChurchillJoseph StalinBig 3
TeheranConference
Nov. 1943
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WWII Military Leaders
WWII MILITARY LEADERS

• 4 Star, US General Dwight Eisenhower
• Graduate of West Point
• Commanded Allied invasion on North Africa in 1942
• Named Supreme Allied Commander and in charge of
  D-Day.

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WWII Military Leaders
WWII MILITARY LEADERS

• General George Patton
• Graduate of West Point
• Tank commander and commander of the 7th Army
• Germans feared Patton
• ole blood and guts

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WWII Military Leaders
WWII MILITARY LEADERS

• West Point Graduate
• Commanding general of troops in the Philippines
• Forced off the Philippines in 1942--- I shall
  return
• 1944, Battle of Leyete Gulf---- I have returned
  to re-take the Philippines.
• Supreme Allied Commander in the South Pacific

General Douglas MacArthur
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D-DAY INVASION

• LCD landing craft devices---carried 36
  men..Higgins boat---built by individual who made
  boats to run on the bayou.20,000 made for the
  D-Day
• To get through the barbed war, soldiers had to
  blast through with 10 pipes filled with TNT.
• Two portable harbors were built and transported
  across the English channel and setup on 1 of the
  British beaches and 1 with the Americans.
• To get fuel from England to France, an underwater
  pipeline was laid which connected with the
  portable harbors to get fuel to the front..
• To fool the Germans to believing the invasion was
  at Calais, the Allies dropped dummy parachute
  soldiers..

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Canadian
Great Britain
United States
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The Battle of the BulgeHitlers Last Offensive
Dec. 16, 1944 to Jan. 28, 1945
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Yalta February, 1945

• FDR wants quick Soviet entry into Pacific war.
• FDR Churchill concede Stalin needs buffer
  (Poland) , FDR Stalin want spheres of influence
  and a weak Germany.
• Churchill wants
  strong Germany
  as bufferagainst
  
  Stalin.
• FDR arguesfor a United Nations.

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Yalta
YALTA CONFERENCE
The decisions at the Yalta Conference shaped the
post WWII world. Many agreements were made but
the lasting effect was You cannot trust the
words of a dictator.

• DECISIONS MADE AT YALTA
• Created a United Nations to promote world peace.
• Germany and Berlin would be divided into 4 zones
  controlled by the US, British, France and Soviet
  Union
• Eastern European countries under Soviet control
  would have free elections
• Stalin agreed but kept Eastern Europe under
  Soviet control after WWII leading to the Cold
  War..

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THREE WORLD LEADERS DIE
Hitler realizing that Berlin was about to fall,
married his mistress, Eva Braun and both commit
suicide on April 30, 1945.
FDR dies in Warm Springs, Georgia on April 12,
1945
Mussolini is executed by his own people on April
28, 1945
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• United Nations
• Allied Powers became the United Nations.
• Germans surrender to the United Nations to end
  the war in Europe

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map/japan

• JAPANESE EXPANSION
• Dec. 7, 1941, Japan attacks Pearl Harbor
• US declares war on Japan.
• 1942
• Philippines
• Bataan Death March

"Island hopping" or "leap frogging" all the way
to Japan. Difficult strategy of re-taking
islands Japan had under their control...

• Guam
• Malaya
• New Guinea
• Threatening Australia and Hawaii

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Japanese Kamikaze PlanesThe Scourge of the
South Pacific
Kamikaze Pilots

• The last 2 years of the war, the Japanese
  resorted to suicidal bombers or Kamikaze
  bombers to destroy the American Navy.
• Approximately 2,800 Kamikaze attackers sunk 34
  Navy ships, damaged 368 others, killed 4,900
  sailors, and wounded over 4,800.

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potsdam
POTSDAM CONFERENCE

• Big Three
• Churchill, Truman and Stalin meet in Potsdam,
  Germany in July 1945.
• Truman informed of successful test of bomb.
• Demanded unconditional surrender from Japanese or
  a new weapon would be used.

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potsdam
POTSDAM CONFERENCE

• Some suggest that Truman was warning Stalin.
• If he didnt follow through with the decisions at
  Yalta, it could happen to the Soviet Union.

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ATOMIC BOMB

• Arguments for use
• Japanese refused to surrender.
• Estimated an invasion similar to D-Day was needed
  to end war.
• Estimated Japans empire would last 2 years.
• Estimated Allied casualties at 1 million or more
  men with huge Japanese losses.
• Japanese leadership was told of the destructive
  power of the bomb
• Offered a period to surrender but declined.

• Arguments opposed
• Atomic bombs were untested and their destruction
  unknown
• Hiroshima and Nagasaki were not major military
  targets.
• Those killed in the attacks would be Japanese
  civilians.
• Radiation poisoning would have negative effects
  on the population.
• Nuclear weapons would set a precedent that using
  weapons of mass destruction was allowable in war

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MANHATTEN PROJECT
A joint Allied Project consisting of Canadian,
British and U.S. scientists to build an atomic
bomb. Started in 1940.. By July 1945, 3 bombs
had been built. 1 bomb 20,000 tons of TNT One
would be set off in New Mexico successfully.
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Hiroshima August 6, 1945

• 70,000 killed immediately
• 48,000 buildings. destroyed.
• 100,000s died of radiation poisoning
  cancer later.

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• My fellow Americans, the British, Chinese and
  United States governments have given the Japanese
  people adequate warning of what is in store for
  them.
• The world will note that the first atomic bomb
  was dropped on Hiroshima, a military base. If
  Japan does not surrender, bombs will have to be
  dropped on her war industries and unfortunately
  thousands of civilian lives will be lost.
• I urge Japanese civilians to leave industrial
  cities immediately and save themselves.

President Harry Truman
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Nagasaki August 9, 1945

• 40,000 killed immediately
• 60,000 injured.
• 100,000s died of radiation poisoning
  cancer later.

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Jap surrender
JAPANESE SURRENDER
Japan surrenders on Aug. 14, 1945Official
surrender ceremonies were held on Sept. 2, 1945
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V-J Day response by Americans in New York City