1933 HITLERS AGGRESSION ISLAND HOPPING Leapfrogging 1940 Japan10

1933 HITLERS AGGRESSION

“ISLAND HOPPING” “Leapfrogging” 1940 Japan=10 aircraft carriers, 145 cruisers/destroyers USA=3 aircraft carriers, 34 cruisers Kamikaze pilots “divine wind” Loss of 1, 300+ Japanese aircrafts

Aug. 1941 ; coast of Newfoundland , Atlantic Conference • Joint proclamation against Axis Powers(Germany, Italy, Japan) • Formed basis of The United Nations • USA not in war……yet British Prime Minister 1940 -1945 , 1951 -1955

1940 Selective Service Act; 15 million drafted 300, 000 planes, 7 million rifles 960, 000 tanks, 39 billion small arms 71, 000 ships, 505 million socks

7 days of fighting 80 mile stretch taken for the coastline invasion Patton in Paris by Aug! 4, 600 vessels 11, 000 airplanes 175, 000 troops (5, 000 casualties)

“last offensive by Hitler” 80 mile front, over a month Germans lost 120, 000 troops Lost 600 tanks/guns, 1, 600 planes Hitler suicide April 30 th V-E Day May 8 th Saving Private Ryan clip

1935 Nuremberg Laws 1942 Final Solution 1945 Nuremberg Trials “Been to the Valley of death”

Feb, 1945 ; Yalta Conference, near the Black Sea • Final defeat & occupation of Nazi Germany. Division of 4 zones • Promise of free elections in eastern Europe & Soviet aid with Japan “THE BIG THREE” USA needs USSR aid in Asia & to join the UN!!

“Pearl Harbor Avenged” 70, 000 Am/26, 000 dead 7, 000 Am dead 110, 000 Jap’s Mac. Arthur returns after 2 yrs 6 months of hell 5 days, 1 st loss for Japan 24, 000 J 1, 700 Am

July, 1945 ; Potsdam Conference, Potsdam Germany • Postwar Europe • “prompt & utter destruction” & terms of unconditional surrender

Leads 6 yrs of Japanese Occupation, “Mac. Arthur Constitution”