February 1943 End of the Battle of Stalingrad
February 1943 End of the Battle of Stalingrad
Effect n n Prevented Germany from taking over the USSR. Marked the beginning of the Soviet Offensive Millions of Soviets killed. Thirsty for revenge
May 1943 n End of Operation Torch
Effect n Allies control North Africa
Mid 1943 n Battle of the Atlantic
Effect Allowed safe resupply. n Without control of the Atlantic D-Day would have been nearly impossible to pull off n
June 6, 1944 n n D-Day General Dwight D. Eisenhower
Effect n n Allied invasion of Europe German Armies falls back in a chaotic retreat
July 1944 n Liberation of Majdanek
Effect n Proof of Nazi atrocities against the Jews
August 1944 n n Liberation of France U. S. Third Army led by General George Patton
Effect n Ally freed from 4 years of occupation
October 1944 n Capture of Aachen
Effect First German town captured n German Army stops retreating and digs in for defensive warfare n
January 1945 n The Battle of the Bulge
Effect n Hitler exhausts last remaining resources
Americans discover the camps n “I made the visit deliberately, in order to be in a position to give firsthand evidence of these things if ever, in the future, there develops a tendency to charge these allegations merely to ‘propaganda. ’” General Eisenhower
Spring 1945 End of Italian Campaign n Freedom for Italy n Closes off a front n
May 1945 n VE Day
Effect n Surrender of Germany
The War in the Pacific
Japanese Advances
The Commanders n General Douglas Mac. Arthur – Commander of the Allied Forces
The Commanders n n General Douglas Mac. Arthur – Commander of the Allied Forces Admiral Chester Nimitz - Commander of the Naval Forces
The Commanders n n n General Douglas Mac. Arthur – Commander of the Allied Forces Admiral Chester Nimitz - Commander of the Naval Forces Admiral Yamamoto- Commander of Japanese Naval Forces.
Doolittle’s Raid n Morale Booster rather than strategic effect
Battle of the Coral Sea May 1942 n n Japanese had been pushing toward Australia. Aircraft’s role in winning the battle for U. S. marked Navy’s decline in importance
Bataan, Philippines n n General Mac. Arthur Allies hold out 4 months
Bataan Death March April 1942 Surrender of 70, 000 Allied troops Over 11, 000 troops died on the trip 2 out of 3 soldiers died in Japanese custody
The Battle of Midway June 3, 1942 n n Admiral Chester Nimitz Naval Battle Japanese lost 4 aircraft carriers, a cruiser, and 250 planes. Halted a planned invasion of Hawaii
Guadalcanal August 1942 n n Mac. Arthur Japanese defeated for the first time on their own soil.
Kamikaze
Leyte Gulf – October 1944 n n n Mac. Arthur Americans take back the Phillipines Crushing blow to the Japanese
Yalta Conference- February 1945
Iwo Jima Mac. Arthur Of the 20, 700 Japanese troops defending the island only 200 survived
Okinawa Combined forces led by Nimitiz. Over 200, 000 casualties
Japanese Civilians
Manhattan Project- Los Alamos Race to build the Atomic Bomb n Fat Man n Little Boy n J. Robert Oppenheimer n
Bombing of Tokyo
Hiroshima August 6, 1945 n n President Truman authorizes the attack Enola Gay- flown by General Paul Tibbets
Nagasaki August 9, 1945 n 200, 000 died
Japanese Surrender- Tokyo Bay September 2, 1945
United Nations Established n April 1945 San Francisco
Nuremberg Trials Surviving Nazi’s tried for war crimes n Tribunal Headed by Supreme Court Justice Jackson n
The Home Front War ends depression n Economy geared for military output n Automobile factories converted to tank and airplane production n Women moved into the workplace n Demographic shifts n
Women in War
Supporting the troops
Supporting the economy Rosie the Riveter
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