WWII Ends Notes

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WWII Ends Notes
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Operation Barbarossa

• Hitlers plan to invade the Soviet Union
• Russian used the scorched-earth policy
• Russian winter 1941-1942 was harsh
• Germany never takes Russia

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War in the Pacific

• Spring 1942Japanese were masters of South
  Pacific
• June 1942Battle of MidwayU.S. defeated Japan
• Turning point of war in Pacific
• Island hopping strategyforced Japan on defense
  by taking one island at a time
• Kamikaze pilotssuicide divers

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Turning Point in Europe

• June 6, 1944D-Dayinvasion of Normandy, France
• Greatest land sea attack in history!!
• Operation Overlord
• Turning point of war in Europe

D-Day Invasion
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Yalta Conference

• Feb. 1945Soviets agreed to join in war against
  Japan
• Promised land in Manchuria north Japan (for
  USSR)
• Division of Germany into 4 zones
• Who was there FDR, Churchill, Stalin

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End of WWII

• April 12, 1945FDR dies
• April 30, 1945Hitler kills himself as the
  Soviets are entering Berlin
• May 8, 1945V-E Day Victory in Europe
• August 1945 atomic bombs on Hiroshima Nagasaki
  (100,000 died)
• V-P DaySeptember 2, 1945

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