Toward VictoryToward Victory

Chapter 24 Section 4

Key TermsKey Terms

• Define: island hopping, kamikaze, genocide, war crimes

Victory in EuropeVictory in Europe

• Italy Surrenders*Americans and British take control of Sicily*Mussolini was dismissed from office and Italy surrenders

• D-Day*American, British, and Canadian troops cross the English Channel, landing in Normandy, France*Millions of troops stormed the shore*Allies entered Paris and freed them from Nazi rule

Victory in EuropeVictory in Europe

• Battle of the Bulge

* America wins when Germany runs out of supplies• Germany Invaded

*Allies invade Germany

*FDR died and VP Harry S Truman took over• Victory in Europe

*German armies begin to surrender

*V-E Day

Victory in the PacificVictory in the Pacific

• Island Hopping

*Allies try to defeat islands in Pacific hopping from one to another

• Japan Holds Firm

*Last stops on island hopping: Iwo Jima and Okinawa- many Americans die here

*Japanese unleash Kamikaze missions

The Atomic BombThe Atomic Bomb

• Truman decides to use the atomic bomb

• August 6, 1945, US drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima- Japan refuses to surrender

• August 9, 1945, atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki

• August 14, 1945- Japan surrenders (V-J Day)• WWII over

The HolocaustThe Holocaust

• Only after WWII did the world learn of the horrors in Nazi Germany

• Hitler was determined to annihilate the Jews

• 6 million Jews were murdered during the Holocaust (genocide)

• Nazis also murdered Poles, Slavs, Gypsies, and people with disabilities

Holocaust Death CampsHolocaust Death Camps

• 6 Death Camps in Poland

• Killed in gas chambers or used as parts of medical experiments

War Crimes TrialsWar Crimes Trials

• War Crimes were prosecuted in the German City of Nuremberg

• 12 were sentenced to death

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