5. 5
Timeline Review
1939
Sept.1 -
Germany
invades
Poland
(official
start to
the war)
Sept. 3 -
Britain &
France
declare
war on
Germany
Dec. 7 –
Japan
bombs
Pearl
Harbor; US
enters the
War
1941
May -
Germans
Surrend
er
Sept. -
Atomic
Bombing
of
Hiroshim
a &
Nagasaki,
Japanese
Surrend
1945
•1939-1945
•US involvement 1941-1945
6. Timeline
1. What years was WW2 in Europe
before American entered the war?
2. What date was the Bombing of Pearl
Harbor by the Japanese?
3. What years was American in the war?
4. When did the German Surrender
(month and year)?
5. When was the Atomic Bombs dropped
in Japan (Month and year?
6
7. 7
Who?
Allies Axis
Great Britain
France
(note: France
surrendered to
Germany in 1940 (after
6 weeks of fighting)
United States
Russia
German
y
Ita
ly
Japan
(major
powers)
(major powers)
10. Learning Targets
1. To identify the battles and strategies that
led to VE day & VJ day
2. To analyze the impact of D-day, battle of
the bulge and the dropping of the bomb
11. •Election of
1944
•· FDR won an
unprecedented
fourth term in
office in 1944.
•· However, in April
of 1945, FDR died,
forcing Vice-
President Harry
Truman to assume
the Presidency.
12. •Harry S Truman
taking the oath of office
after the death of
Franklin D. Roosevelt,
April 12, 1945. The
following day, Truman
spoke to reporters and
said, "...I don't know
whether you fellows
ever had a load of hay
fall on you, but when
they told me yesterday
what had happened, I
felt like the moon, the
stars, and all the
planets had fallen on
13. 13
QUESTIONS
1. How may presidential terms did FDR
serve?
2. What year did he take place office for the
last time?
3. Was it before or after the bombing of
Pearl Harbor?
4. When did FDR pass away?
5. Who became the new president?
14. 14
D-Day in France
June 7, 1944
• France had been taken over by the Germans
• Allied Forces gathered in Great Britian to
attack the Germans in France
•June 7, 1944 – Allied forces crossed the
English Channel and landed in France in
Normandy, surprising the Germany
•June 7, 1944 – Allied forces also attacked by
air dropping bombs on the Germans
15. •IN THE CHAT BOX,
DESCRIBE WHAT YOU
THINK IS HAPPENING IN
THESE PHOTOS
16. June 6, 1944: D-DAY
3 divisions invaded German lines
U.S., British, Canadian
156,000 troops, 4,000 landing crafts, 600
warships, & 11,000 planes
The largest land-sea-air operation in
HISTORY
Regained much of French territory back!
17. D-Day:
day of days
When? – June 7, 1944
Where? – Normandy, France
Results? – A fleet of 4,000 ships carried
Allied troops to Normandy in order to invade
France in an attempt to defeat the Germans.
18. On August 25, 1944,
Allied forces liberated
Paris from Nazi
rule…which D-Day
started
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IMPORTANCE OF D-DAY?
19. QUESTIONS?
1. Date for D-Day?
2. In the Chat box tell me what was the
purpose of the Allie troops going to
France?
3. What was a major result of D-Day in the
war?
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21. Battle of the Bulge:
When? – December 16, 1944
Where? – border areas near Luxembourg, France
and Germany
Results? – The Germans began a counterattack
against the Allies as the Allies attempted to drive
the Germans completely out of France.
Importance? – This battle showed the desperation
of the German forces. While the Germans were
able to slow down the Allied advance, they could
not stop it completely.
22. •Victory in Europe
•· By April of 1945,
American and Soviet
troops were closing in
on Berlin.
•The endless procession of
German prisoners marching
through the ruined city streets
to captivity.
•· Adolf Hitler
committed suicide on
April 30, and Germany
officially surrendered
on May 7.
23. •Red army soldiers raising the Soviet flag on the roof of the
Reichstag (German Parliament) in Berlin, Germany.
24. CIRCLE IF TRUE, X IF FALSE
1.The Allied Forces took over Paris
after the D-Day attack
2. The purpose of the D-Day attack
was to take over Germany.
3. The Battle of the Bulge took
place in border areas near Luxembourg,
France and Germany
4. The Germans won the Battle of
the Bulge
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•TRUE
•TRUE
•TRUE
•TRUE
25. Surrender
25
•Soviet Army stormed Berlin
•Germany went back to Germany
after Battle of the Bulge
•Holocaust Camps had been
liberated-July 1944
26. Unconditional Surrender! Soviet Army
stormed Berlin
Germany pushed
back after Battle
of the Bulge
Camps had been
liberated-July
1944
31. •· On May 8,
the Allies
celebrated V-E
Day (Victory
in Europe).
•Churchill
waves to
crowds in
Britain after
broadcasting to
the nation that
the war with
Germany had
been won, 8
May 1945.
33. •Island Hopping in the Pacific
• The U.S. began a policy of
island hopping, using
islands as stepping-
stones towards
Japan.
• The two main goals of the
U.S. in the Pacific were:
1. to regain the
Philippines.
•2. to invade Japan.
34. •· By February of 1945, the U.S. had
recaptured the Philippines and captured the
islands of Iwo Jima and Okinawa.
•Raising the Flag
on Iwo Jima
depicts five
United States
Marines and a
U.S. Navy
corpsman raising
the flag of the
United States
atop Mount
Suribachi during
the Battle of Iwo
Jima.
35. •HOW ARE WE GOING TO…Defeat of Japan?
•· The U.S. planned to invade Japan in 1945, though
experts warned that the invasion could cost over a
million casualties.
•Stalin, Truman and Churchill at the
Potsdam Conference.
•· Upon learning
about the atomic
bomb, Pres.
Truman sent the
Japanese the
Potsdam
Declaration,
warning them to
surrender or face
“prompt and utter
destruction.”
36. To drop the bomb or
not?
Truman just learns of the Manhattan project
The best-kept secret of the war
Should they use the atomic bomb?
Might not work
Could set the atmosphere on fire
End the Earth
37. Testing…
They first tested the bomb in New
Mexico
More powerful than expected
How would the Japanese respond?
1. Surrender
2. Test might be a dud-nothing would happen
3. Shoot down the delivery plane or move
American prisoners of war into the test
area
38. •· On August 6, 1945, the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb
on Hiroshima, Japan, killing at least 70,000 people and
destroying most of the city.
40. •· On August 9, the U.S. dropped another atomic bomb on the
city of Nagasaki, killing at least 40,000 people.
•Mushroom cloud from the
nuclear explosion over
Nagasaki rising 60,000
feet into the air on the
morning of August 9 1945
