The United States at War
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Japanese victories in the Pacific
Japan won victory, capturing american bases and british and occupying Thailand
German sucess in Europe
Germany captured Stalingrad, Leningrad, and Moscow (summer of 1942)
Turnin Point in the War
Germany launched a 2nd attack in 1942, Stalin pleaded with Roosevelt for an invasion of w. europe that would take the pressure off thegerman army survived and the rest surrendered
German Weak Point Exposed
In N. Africa American and British forces pushed Rommel and his African Korps in Turnisia
in Aug British and US forces took Sicily, Italy, and Mussolini was defeated and the new Italian go vernment surrendered
Victory in Europe
Normandy Invasion
On June 1944, 176,000 troops in five thousand vessels crossed the English Channel to land in the coastline if France, This invasion was known as “D-Day”
General Dwight D Eisenhower led a million allied forces in France within a month after D-Day
Rapid Advance from the East
In January 1944, the Red Army fleed Leningrad from an 890-day German seige, during which 800,000 residents died
Red Army- Soviets
Germany Surrenders
In March 1945, the allies against crossed the Rhine River and moved into the heart of Germany. Meanwhile the soviets to Berlin
In April, Hitler commited suicide
Crimes Against Humanity
The nazi Holocaust was in deliberate extermination of millions of European Jews and other civilians
Not until Allied troops reached the Nazi death camps at Auschwitz, Dachau, buchenwald, and elsewhere- and found the survivors and thegas chambers in which so many had died was the horible truth
War in the Pacific
Aug. of 1942, Americans took the first step on the road of Tokyo when marines landed on Guadalacana in the Solomon Islands
Iwo Jima and Okinawa
In 1945 the last of Japan’s Islands oupost fell with the taking of Iwo Jima in March and Okinawa in June
By the summer of 1945, after Germany was defeated, all Allied power was turned against Japan
Hiroshima and Hagasaki
Early in the warm American scientists had secretly been developing an atomic bomb
After the Japanese government rejected Truman’s final warning, on Aug 6 an atomic bomb destroyed 60% of Hiroshima, a major Japanese industrial city
A second bomb was then dropped on Nagasaki 150,000 Japanese
Planning for War and Peace
January1943, roosevelt and Churchhill agreed to demand from the Axis Powers
November 1943, agreed that Japan should be stripped of its Pacific empire
Roosevelt’s Death
April 12, 1945 the President died suddenly
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