The document summarizes key events in World War 2 between the Allied and Axis powers. It describes the major players on each side and the two main theaters of the war in Europe and the Pacific. It outlines major battles such as Midway, D-Day, and advances by the Soviets and Allies against Germany. It then discusses the Manhattan Project and the US decision to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, leading to Japan's surrender and the end of WWII.
11. Driving Back the
Germans
• In 1942 the Allies begin to
defeat the Germans in
Africa.
• May 1943 the Germans are
forced out of North Africa.
12. General Dwight D.
Eisenhower
• Directs the
invasion of
Southern
Europe and
Italy.
13. Down Goes Italy
• As the Allies
advance, the
Italians
overthrow
Mussolini
and
surrender.
14. June 6, 1944 D-Day
• The day the Allies, under
the command of General
Eisenhower, invade
German occupied France.
(Opening scene from Saving Private Ryan)
22. FDR Passes the Torch
• In April 1945, Franklin Delano
Roosevelt dies, and Harry S Truman
becomes president.
23. Decisions, Decisions
• With the Japanese refusing to
surrender Truman has to
decide to invade Japan with
soldiers or drop the newly
developed atomic bomb on
Japan.
28. Post War Peace
• What will happen next?
– Will the United States and Soviet Union
emerge as the two super powers of the
world?
– Will the Allies become divided in their plans
for the defeated Axis Powers?
– Will the German and Japanese commanders
be punished for their crimes against
humanity?