Pushing the Axis Back

Striking Back at the 3rd Reich

A. Strategic BombingB. Striking at the

Underbelly (Sicily)1. Mussolini surrendered

Italy2. Roosevelt Meets Stalin in

Tehran

France- “Operation Overlord”A. Allies placed fake army at the coast

of Britain to convince Germans that the Allies planned to invade Calais

France- “Operation Overlord”B. D-Day: June 6,

1944

1. Allied invasion of French beaches at Normandy

2. Death and gore

Driving the Japanese BackA. Island-Hopping Campaign 1943:

U.S. offensive in the Pacific 1. Tarawa: the first American offensive in

the critical central Pacific region.

Driving Japanese Back

B. Philippines1. Guadalcanal/Leyte

Gulf: largest naval battle in U.S. History- U.S. troops ambushed, but force Japanese retreat

The War Ends

A. France LiberatedB. Battle of the

Bulge1. Last German

offensive 2. Great American

victory3. April 29, Hitler

commits suicide

The War Ends

C. V-E Day

1. May 8, 1945- Victory in Europe Day

Japan is Defeated

A. Roosevelt diesB. Truman takes

over1. Alamogordo,

N.M. had air field with regiments in training

Japan is DefeatedC. Iwo Jima: U.S. planes could bomb

Japan from there

D. Firebombing- Napalm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2lhJ32feec&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1&safe=active

Japan is DefeatedE. Okinawa

1. 82 day long battle2. Kamikaze ▪ were suicide attacks by Japanese military

aviators

Japan is Defeated

F. Manhattan Project- secret American program to build a atomic

1. Hiroshima- Aug. 6, 19452. Nagasaki- Aug. 9, 19453. Sept. 2, 1945

Japan is Defeated

G. Building a new world1. United Nations: created for countries to

solve differences peacefully as opposed to war

2. Nuremburg Trials- punish German leaders for war crimes