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Battle of Atlantic
Battle of Atlantic 1939-1045
– Unprotected U.S. merchant ship were sinking because of German U-boats
-The success is in the Germans have in the beginning but in mid 1943 the allies have the upper hand -
Pearl Harbor
December 7th 1941
- Pearl Harbor occur
- 2,400 U.S. service men and civilians lost their lives and 1,178 U.S service men and civilian wounded
- 18 ships was sunk and 350 planes are damage -
Battle of the Coral Sea
-May 1942 - U.S. and Australia stopped Japan from invading
-U.S. was beginning to use the Island Hopping technique to weaken Japan’s forces
-Japan won the actual battle, but the allies were able to stop Japan invasion for the first time -
Battle of Midway
Battle of Midway
-June 4-7, 1942
- An admiral named Chester Nimitz intercepted a Japanese code
- the battle of Midway was successful for the U.S. part -
Battle of Stalingrad (August 23 1942 – February 2, 1943)
Battle of Stalingrad (August 23 1942 – February 2, 1943)
-Germans violated nonaggression pact with Soviet Union and attacked
- Hitler hoped to capture Soviet oil fields
- winter of 1943 hit -
Normandy Invasion (D-Day)
-June 6, 1944
-150,000 Allied troops invaded
-During this time, Soviet Union was pushing into Poland and Allies were pushing North in Italy
60 mile stretch of beach
156,000 troops
4,000 landing craft
600 warships
11,000 planes -
Battle of the Bulge
-December 16, 1944 – January 25, 1945
-Fought in Belgium - Germany was trying to capture Antwerp
- German broke throgh aliie lines -
U.S. Occupation of Japan
-Similar trials held for Japanese war criminals
-7 out of 28 leaders were found guilty and sentenced to death (including Tojo)
-U.S. occupied Japan for 6 years under the direction of General Douglas MacArthur
Called for a New Constitution (with free elections and women suffrage)
Introduced a free market economy -
Yalta Conference
-Set up United Nations
- The conference took place after the ww2 -
Battle of Iwo Jima
-U.S. won
26,800 Japanese troops died
6,000 U.S. Marines died
-27,000 Japanese held Iwo Jima
-Feb.19-March 26,1945 -
Battle of Okinawa
-U.S. won
-7,600 - 12,500 U.S U.S. troops died
-Japan’s last defensive stronghold -
April 12 1945
-At the beginning of his 4th Term, President Franklin D. Roosevelt passes away
-The U.S. went through a major grieving period
-Harry S. Truman, as Vice-President, takes the role as President -
Truman takes place
-Harry S. Truman, as Vice-President, takes the role as President -
The end of Hitler
-Hitler and Eva Braun commit suicide (gun shot and cyanide)
-Cover of Time magazine May 7, 1945
-Bodies burned -
V-E Day
- its a victory in europe day -General Eisenhower accepted a surrender by the Third Reich -1st part of War was over
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Potsdam
-Truman, (Churchill and then Clement Atlee) and Stalin met in Potsdam, Germany
-Drew up a blueprint to disarm Germany and eliminate the Nazi regime
-July – August 1945
-Japan must “unconditionally surrender”
-Berlin to be divided up in East (or Soviet Germany) -
bombing of Hiroshima
-In 43 seconds, the city collapsed to dust
-the name of the bomb they is “Little Boy”
-August 6, 1945 -
bombing of Nagasaki
-The bomb they use “Fat Man”
-Leveled half of the city
-August 9, 1945 -
V-J Day
-The victory in japan
-August 15, 1945: Japan offers unconditional surrender
-The japans formal surrender -
Nuremberg Trials
-200 other officials were found guilty, but given lesser sentences
-12 of the 22 defendants were sentenced to death
-Over 23 nations tried Nazi war criminals in Nuremberg, Germany