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IINVADING Mussolini Gets. ITALY Busted

EUROPE— 1944 EUROPE— 1943 June 6, 1944 – D-Day landings. Jan 6, 1944 Soviet troops advance into Poland. June 5, 1944 Allies enter Rome. Feb 2, 1943 Germans surrender at Stalingrad in the first big defeat of Hitler's armies.

SWEET HOME, BRANDENBURG

But Do You Have A Flag?

DAS SECRET VEPONS!

DOWN AND OUT IN BERLIN April 21, 1945 Soviets reach Berlin. April 28, 1945 Mussolini is captured and hanged by Italian partisans. April 30, 1945 – Adolf Hitler commits suicide. May 8, 1945 – V-E Day (Victory in Europe Day).

POWOW AT POTSDAM Churchill, Truman, Stalin July 17, 1945 Attlee, Truman, Stalin July 29, 1945 Stalin will not leave Eastern Europe when the war is over.

AND IN THE END… Aug 6, 1945 - First atomic bomb (“Little Boy”) dropped on Hiroshima, Japan. Aug 9, 1945 – Second atomic bomb (“Fat Man”) dropped on Nagasaki. Aug 14, 1945 – Japan agrees to unconditional surrender. Sept 2, 1945 – Japan signs surrender—V-J DAY– and the war is officially over.

NATION BUILDING IN THE PACIFIC 1945 -52— U. S. occupies and rebuilds Japan's military was destroyed, and war crime trials were held. 1947– New Constitution • EMPEROR • UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE • MILITARY Toyota, Nissan, Mitsubishi, Honda, Mazda, Suzuki, Subaru, Isuzu, Daihatsu and even Mitsuoka!

1945 -1948 Nov. 1945– United Nations’ charter signed in San Francisco and will be based in New York City. Winston Churchill makes his “Iron Curtain” speech. 1948—Israel is created in the Middle East as a Jewish homeland. The British Empire is in jeopardy as colonies continue to demand independence (Africa, Latin America and Asia). DEMOCRACY OR COMMUNISM?

COLD WAR