32.4 THE ALLIED VICTORY WORLD HISTORY PETERSON SCHOOL MR.HOOD
Aug 06, 2015
32.4 THE ALLIED VICTORY
WORLD HISTORYPETERSON SCHOOLMR.HOOD
MAIN IDEAEMPIRE BUILDING.
LED BY THE UNITED STATES, GREATBRITAIN, AND THE SOVIET UNION,
THE ALLIES SCORED KEY VICTORIES AND WON THE WAR.
WHY IT MATTERS NOWTHE ALLIES` VICTORY IN WORLD WAR II SET UP CONDITIONS FOR BOTH THE
COLD WAR AND TODAY`S POST-COLD WAR WORLD.
INTRODUCTION
GERMANY DECLARED WAR ON RUSSIA
JAPAN DECLARED WAR ON USA
CHURCHILL (GB) + ROOSEVELT (USA) MET TO DISCUSS JOINT WAR
POLICY
STALIN ASKED FOR HELP FROM ALLIED
FORCES
THE PLAN WAS TO WEAKEN GERMANY ON
TWO FRONTS
BEFORE DEALING A DEATHBLOW TO ADOLF HITLER`S GERMANY
OBJECTIVE 1DESCRIBE THE
ALLIED STRATEGY IN EUROPE
BRITAIN + USA STRUCK FIRST IN
NORTH AFRICA + SOUTHERN EUROPE
STRATEGY ANGERED STALIN RUSSIA FACED
GERMANY ALONE
BATTLE OF LENINGRAD 1941-1942: SOVIETS STALLED GERMAN
FORCES
BATTLE OF STALINGRAD 1942-1943: SOVIETS DEFEATED
GERMAN FORCES
BRITISH + US TROOPS CRUSHED GERMANY IN NORTH
AFRICA 1943
STALIN AGAIN URGED BRITAIN + USA TO INVADE
FRANCE
INSTEAD BRITAIN + USA INVADED SOUTHERN
ITALY 1943
ITALY SURRENDERED MUSSOLINI TOPPLED FROM
POWER
GERMANY TOOK CONTROL OF NORTH
ITALY, PUT MUSSOLINI BACK IN CHARGE
GERMANY FOUGHT FOR ITALY UNTIL THE
VERY END
MUSSOLINI LATER SHOT
+ HUNG BODY FOR ALL TO SEE
OBJECTIVE 2LIST EFFORTS MADE
ON THE HOME FRONT
PEOPLE ON THE HOME FRONT RALLIED TO SUPPORT THE
ALLIED FORCES
U.S PRODUCED WEAPONS + EQUIPMENT NEEDED TO WIN
WAR
ALLIED GOVERNMENTS USED PROPAGANDA CAMPAIGNS
OBJECTIVE 3SUMMARIZE EVENTS
THAT LED TO THE SURRENDER
OF GERMANYAND OF JAPAN
BY 1943 ALLIED FORCES PLANNED ATTACK OF MAINLAND EUROPE
D-DAY INVASION JUNE 06 1944
OR “OPERATION OVERLORD”
LARGEST LAND + SEA INVASION ATTACK IN
HISTORY
BRITISH, AMERICAN, FRENCH
+ CANADIAN TROOPS
BY SEPTEMBER ALLIES HAD LIBERATED FRANCE, BELGIUM, +
LUXEMBOURG
ALLIES NOW SET THEIR SIGHTS ON
GERMANY
HITLER NOW FACED WAR ON TWO FRONTS
WEST: ALLIES, EAST: SOVIETS
BATTLE OF THE BULGE 1944-1945
LAST GERMAN OFFENSIVE
ALLIED FORCES +
SOVIETS CAPTURED BERLIN
HITLER COMMITTED SUICIDE
SOON AFTER, GERMANY`S
UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER
V.E. DAY MAY 1945: VICTORY IN
EUROPE
BUT WAR IN PACIFIC CONTINUED
ALLIED FORCES V JAPAN
USA TOOK IWO JIMA + OKINAWA
USA NOW WANTED JAPAN
BUT TAKING JAPAN COULD RISK 500,000 U.S.
LIVES
MEANWHILE, AMERICA HAD PLANNED TOP-SECRET MANHATTAN PROJECT
LED BY GENERAL LESLIE GROVES
+ J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER
MANHATTAN PROJECT DEVELOPED THE ATOMIC BOMB
USA WARNED JAPAN TO SURRENDER OR
EXPECT “RAIN OF RUIN FROM THE AIR”
BUT THE JAPANESE
DID NOT SURRENDER
US DROPPED ATOMIC BOMB ON HIROSHIMA AUGUST 6
1945
70,000-80,000 JAPANESE DIED
THE JAPANESE DID NOT SURRENDER
US DROPPED ATOMIC BOMB ON NAGASAKI AUGUST 9 1945
70,000 MORE JAPANESE DIED
RADIATION FALLOUT KILLED MANY MORE
JAPANESE
FINALLY JAPAN SURRENDERED
SEPTEMBER 1945 THE WAR HAD ENDED
NOW, COUNTRIES FACED THE TASK OF REBUILDING A WAR-TORN
WORLD