Allied Morale/Success

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Allied Morale/Success
10. Normandy
1. Treaty of Versailles- Germany is punished
High
3. Hitler crushes Poland
WWI Trench Warfare
2. Germany, Japan, and Italy start breaking the
Treaty of Versailles- World Wide Depression
4. Hitler crushes France in less than 3 months
5. London is bombed
6. German General Rommel pushes allies out of all
of North Africa except Egypt
9. American victories in the Pacific, vitory in
North Africa, Italian campaign,
7. Operation Barbarossa
8. Pearl Harbor
8. Russian Winter
Low
1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944
1945
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The Allied Victory 1943-1945
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Germany Crushed (Two Fronts)

• Soviets advanced westward
• after Stalingrad
• Americans and British advanced eastward
• D-Day invasion
• Amphibious invasion of France (Normandy Beaches)
  from England
• Wasnt rushed by western allies who had little
  incentive to race to save communist/totalitarian
  Stalin
• Dwight D Eisenhower (Ike) was the commander of
  American forces in Europe
• Western allies advanced more slowly than the
  Soviets towards the center of Germany
• Stalin occupies Eastern Europe

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D-Day
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Germany and Italy Fall

• Nazis surrounded
• Firebombing of Axis Civilian populations
• Mussolini is killed by Italians who blame him for
  the destruction of their country
• Invasion of Berlin
• Carried out by the Soviets
• Berlin will later be a problem
• V-E Day

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Full Extent of the Holocaust Becomes Clear
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Pacific Theater

• Island hopping
• Japanese Develop Kamikaze techniques
• Air
• Land
• Only used as a major part of Japanese strategy at
  the end of the war. Why?
• Connection to the decision to the use the atom
  bomb
• The Manhattan Project
• German Jew irony

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Kamikaze Attack
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Holdovers

• Circumstances   Intelligence Officer 2nd Lt.
  Hiroo Onada who emerged from the jungle of Lubang
  Island with his .25 caliber rifle, 500 rounds of
  ammunition and several hand grenades. 29 years
  after Japan's formal surrender, and 15 years
  after being declared legally dead in Japan. When
  he learned that the war was over he wept openly.
• Afterwards  After returning to Japan, he was
  unable to adapt to modern life and retired to a
  ranch in Brazil. He revisited Lubang island in
  1996, and still alive today.

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With The War Not Over, but Nevertheless Clearly
an Allied Victory, Yalta Conference Called

• Big Three
• Stalin was negotiating from a position of
  strength
• Elections promised in Eastern Europe as long as
  they resulted in pro-Soviet governments
• Japan ordered to give up or suffer devastating
  consequences

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• Atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

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Nagasaki after the bomb
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VJ Day-The End of World War II
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Impact of the War

• Casualty Statistics
• Occupation of Germany and Japan
• Transfer of World Power from Western/Central
  Europe (exhausted by 2nd total war in a
  generation) to America and the Soviet Union
• As a result, the end of New Imperialism aka
  decolonization
• Occurred in fits and starts over next three
  decades
• Formation of the United Nations

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