February 1943 End of the Battle of Stalingrad

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February 1943End of the Battle of Stalingrad
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Effect

• Prevented Germany from taking over the USSR.
• Marked the beginning of the Soviet Offensive
• Millions of Soviets killed.
• Thirsty for revenge

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May 1943

• End of Operation Torch

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Effect

• Allies control North Africa

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Mid 1943

• Battle of the Atlantic

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Effect

• Allowed safe resupply.
• Without control of the Atlantic D-Day would have
  been nearly impossible to pull off

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June 6, 1944

• D-Day
• General Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Effect

• Allied invasion of Europe
• German Armies falls back in a chaotic retreat

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July 1944

• Liberation of Majdanek

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Effect

• Proof of Nazi atrocities against the Jews

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August 1944

• Liberation of France
• U.S. Third Army led by General George Patton

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Effect

• Ally freed from 4 years of occupation

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October 1944

• Capture of Aachen

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Effect

• First German town captured
• German Army stops retreating and digs in for
  defensive warfare

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January 1945

• The Battle of the Bulge

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Effect

• Hitler exhausts last remaining resources

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Spring 1945

• End of Italian Campaign
• Freedom for Italy
• Closes off a front

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May 1945

• VE Day

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Effect

• Surrender of Germany

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The War in the Pacific
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Japanese Advances
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The Commanders

• General Douglas MacArthur Commander of the
  Allied Forces

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The Commanders

• General Douglas MacArthur Commander of the
  Allied Forces
• Admiral Chester Nimitz- Commander of the Naval
  Forces

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The Commanders

• General Douglas MacArthur Commander of the
  Allied Forces
• Admiral Chester Nimitz- Commander of the Naval
  Forces
• Admiral Yamamoto- Commander of Japanese Naval
  Forces.

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Doolittles Raid

• Morale Booster rather than strategic effect

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Battle of the Coral SeaMay 1942

• Japanese had been pushing toward Australia.
• Aircrafts role in winning the battle for U.S.
  marked Navys decline in importance

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Bataan, Philippines

• General MacArthur
• Allies hold out 4 months

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Bataan Death MarchApril 1942
Surrender of 70,000 Allied troops Over 11,000
troops died on the trip
2 out of 3 soldiers died in Japanese custody
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The Battle of MidwayJune 3, 1942

• Admiral Chester Nimitz
• Naval Battle
• Japanese lost 4 aircraft carriers, a cruiser, and
  250 planes.
• Halted a planned invasion of Hawaii

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Guadalcanal August 1942

• MacArthur
• Japanese defeated for the first time on their own
  soil.

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Kamikaze
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Leyte Gulf October 1944

• MacArthur
• Americans take back the Phillipines
• Crushing blow to the Japanese

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Yalta Conference- February 1945
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Iwo Jima
MacArthur Of the 20,700 Japanese troops defending
the island only 200 survived
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Okinawa
Combined forces led by Nimitiz. Over 200,000
casualties
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Japanese Civilians
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Manhattan Project- Los Alamos

• Race to build the Atomic Bomb
• Fat Man
• Little Boy
• J. Robert Oppenheimer

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Bombing of Tokyo
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HiroshimaAugust 6, 1945

• President Truman authorizes the attack
• Enola Gay- flown by General Paul Tibbets

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NagasakiAugust 9, 1945

• 200,000 died

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Japanese Surrender- Tokyo BaySeptember 2, 1945
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United Nations Established

• April 1945 San Francisco

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Nuremberg Trials

• Surviving Nazis tried for war crimes
• Tribunal Headed by Supreme Court Justice Jackson

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The Home Front

• War ends depression
• Economy geared for military output
• Automobile factories converted to tank and
  airplane production
• Women moved into the workplace
• Demographic shifts

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Women in War
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Supporting the troops
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Supporting the economy
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