1942 continued
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1942 Continued. JAPAN DOMINATED SE ASIA AND THE WESTERN PACIFIC. UNTIL JAPANESE SETBACKS…. CORAL SEA. GUADALCANAL. MIDWAY. 1942 Continued. TURNING POINT IN THE WAR SOVIETS ON THE OFFENSIVE. LENINGRAD STILL UNDER SIEGE. HITLER ABANDONS MOSCOW TO CAPTURE CAUCASUS OIL FIELDS - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
1942 Continued...
UNTIL JAPANESE SETBACKS…
JAPAN DOMINATED SE ASIA AND THE WESTERN PACIFIC
CORAL SEA MIDWAY GUADALCANAL
1942 Continued.. TURNING POINT IN THE WARSOVIETS ON THE OFFENSIVE
Battle of Stalingrad 1942-43 Soviet Victory
90,000 German POW’sOnly 5,000 survive
HITLER ABANDONS MOSCOW TOCAPTURE CAUCASUS OIL FIELDS
NEAR STALINGRAD
LENINGRAD STILL UNDER SIEGE
1943GERMAN RETREAT
FROM USSR
ALLIES INVADE THE SOFTUNDERBELLY OF EUROPE
Mussolini ArrestedDue to Italian losses
ITALY AND GERMANYDEFEATED IN N. AFRICA
ALLIES INVADE SICILY
Italy SurrendersTo AlliesMussolini Rescued by Germans
Sets up German Puppet State in N. Italy
ITALY DECLARES WAR ON GERMANY
1943 Continued...
Germans FiercelyResistant
HAMBURG, GERMANY FIREBOMBED60,000 SUFFOCATED
OR BAKED ALIVE
1944US ISLAND HOPPING IN THE PACIFIC
MARIANAS Japanese Military
and Civilian Suicides
PHILIPPINE SEA “Turkey Shoot”TOJO Resigns
MacArthur: Philippines“I HAVE RETURNED”
Securing bases for strategic bombing
JAPANESE KAMIKAZI
HIS TARGET
1944 Continued... D-DAY JUNE 6OPERATION OVERLORD
1944 Continued...
GERMANY RETREATS FROM ITALY
LIBERATION OF PARIS
LAST GERMAN COUNTER-OFFENSIVE
IN BELGIUM
1944 Continued...SOVIETS LIBERATE EXTERMINATION CAMPS IN POLAND
1945 YALTA CONFERENCE AGREEMENTS
Churchill FDR Stalin
Soviets 30 miles from Berlin: agree to free electionsin liberated countries
Soviets get ½ Poland ½ E. Prussia
Four occupation zones in Germany and Berlin
Disarm GermansPunish War Criminals
1945 Continued...U.S. TAKES IWO JIMA 660 MILES FROM TOKYO
US BOMBS TOKYOWITH NAPALM
AND INCENDIARIES
1945 Continued...GERMAN FORCES IN ITALY SURRENDER
MUSSOLINI CAPTURED
SHOT
WITH HIS MISTRESS HUNG BEATEN
1945 Continued... US FORCES ADVANCEINTO GERMANY
ALLIES LIBERATE CONCENTRATION CAMPS IN GERMANY
US AND SOVIET FORCES MEET IN GERMANY
1945 Continued...
Harry Truman Sworn In
Truman learns of Manhattan Project
1945 Continued...
HITLER AND EVA BRAUN - SUICIDE
HITLER’S BUNKER
CHURCHILL SITS IN CHAIRFROM HITLER’S BUNKER GOEBBELS
1945 Continued...
GERMANY SURRENDERS SURRENDERED GERMAN TROOPS
NEW YORK
LONDON
2 MILLION GERMAN GIRLS AND WOMEN WERE RAPED
BY THE RED ARMY
VE DAY!!
1945 Continued...OKINOWA FALLS
PHILIPPINES RECAPTURED
350 MILES FROM JAPANBASE FOR AIR OPERATIONS
ON PLANNED INVASION
LAST AMPHIBIAN OPERATIONHIGH CASUALTIES, COMBAT FATIGUE
1945 Continued...
Atlee, Truman, Stalin
POTSDAM CONFERENCE
Joint Ultimatum Issued:“Unconditional Surrender”
Or “prompt and utter destruction”
DETERMINE PUNISHMENT FOR GERMANY
END THE WAR IN THE PACIFIC
AUGUST 6TH HIROSHIMA
100,000 DIE INSTANTLY60% OF CITY GONE
FAT MAN
AUGUST 9TH NAGASAKI
SOVIETS INVADE MANCHURIA
35,000 DEAD
VJ DAY!!
JAPAN SURRENDERS
AUGUST 14TH
1945 Continued...
PHYSICAL AND IDEALOGICAL BOUNDARY BETWEEN COMMUNIST AND CAPITALIST STATES
WORLD WAR II ENDSCOLD WAR BEGINS
THE IRON CURTAIN
THE END