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WAR IN EUROPE

WAR IN EUROPE. Battles to Know on the European Front. -Stalingrad -D-Day -Bulge. WAR IN THE PACIFIC. -Philippines Bataan Death March -Midway -Guadalcanal -Iwo Jima/ Okinawa *Fighting strategy of Japanese!!!. WAR IN THE PACIFIC. War News Broadcast.

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WAR IN EUROPE

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  1. WAR IN EUROPE

  2. Battles to Know on the European Front -Stalingrad -D-Day -Bulge

  3. WAR IN THE PACIFIC

  4. -Philippines Bataan Death March -Midway -Guadalcanal -Iwo Jima/ Okinawa *Fighting strategy of Japanese!!! WAR IN THE PACIFIC

  5. War News Broadcast • You will be assigned one of the above mentioned battles. • In groups of your choosing, you will create a 3-4 minute long news broadcast of your event. • You must turn in a script which you can only use as a reference during your segment • You may perform your segment in any combination of ways you like – interview, reenactment, live at the scene, news desk, etc. • Everyone must participate/have a speaking part • Information required – • Brief explanation of what happened • Significance – Why was this battle important? Why do we care?

  6. Operation Torch (1942-May 1943) Gen. George C. Marshall Second front in France? Stalingrad (Dec 1942/Jan 1943) Air War incendiary raids on Hamburg, Berlin and Dresden Invasion of Italy Mussolini DEFEATING GERMANY

  7. D-Day

  8. Invasion of Normandy Eisenhower Meets with Paratroopers before D-Day D-DAY LANDING JUNE 6, 1944 After the Normandy Invasion

  9. GUIDING QUESTION • Why did the United States decide to use atomic bombs against Japan? (strictly military measure to end the war? or diplomatic measure designed to intimidate the Soviet Union in the postwar era?)

  10. Island-Hopping in the Pacific American Troops Before Amphibious Landing US troops wading ashore Butaritari, November 1943 Attempting to Secure a Beachhead on Pacific Island Sprawled bodies on beach Tarawa

  11. Stalingrad (Dec 1942/Jan 1943) Allied invasion of France Normandy - D-Day (June 6, 1944) Battle of the Bulge (late December 1944) Fall of Germany Berlin (June 2, 1945) Hitler suicide (April 30) Surrender June 7, 1945 (V-E Day) Yalta Conference DEFEATING GERMANY

  12. WAR IN THE PACIFIC • Island Hopping • kamikazes • Iwo Jima (Feb-March 1945) • Okinawa (April – June 1945) Flag Raising on Iwo Jima

  13. BEGINNING THE ATOMIC AGE • FDR death (Warm Springs, GA, April 12, 1945) • Harry S Truman (President 1945-53) Churchill, Roosevelt & Stalin at Yalta, Feb. 1945 President Truman addressing Congress after Roosevelt’s death

  14. BEGINNING THE ATOMIC AGE • Manhattan Project (begun 1942) • Alamagordo, NM, July 16, 1945 • Potsdam Conference - Unconditional surrender or face ”utter destruction” • Firebomb Tokyo • Hiroshima (August 6, 1945) • Nagasaki (August 9, 1945) • Japan surrender September 2, 1945 (V-J Day) Col. Paul W. Tibbets, Jr., & the ENOLA GAY Atomic Bombs: “Little Boy” & “Fat Man”

  15. Hiroshima After the Bomb Blast, August 6, 1945

  16. Hiroshima After the Bomb Blast, August 6, 1945

  17. Hiroshima after the atomic bomb, August 6, 1945

  18. Nagasaki atomic bombingAugust 9, 1945

  19. Aftermath of Nagasaki bombing

  20. Arguments for use Japanese refused to surrender. It was estimated an invasion similar to D-Day was needed to bring the war to an end. US officials estimated conquest of Japan’s empire would last an additional 18 months to 2 years. US officials estimated Allied casualties at 1/2 to 1 1/2 million, in addition to huge Japanese losses if there was an invasion of Japan. Japanese leadership was informed of the destructive power and nature of the bomb and offered a period to surrender but declined. Arguments opposed Bombs were untested and their destruction unknown Neither city was a major military target and the attacks would mainly kill Japanese civilians. Radiation poisoning, birth defects and contamination would have negative effects on the population. Would set a precedent about using weapons of mass destruction in war ATOMIC BOMB

  21. Surrender ceremonies on the USS Missouri

  22. Japanese Surrenderon the USS Missouri Sept 2, 1945

  23. RESULTS OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR • 300,000 dead, over 800K wounded • $320 billion cost • National debt rose from $50 Billion in 1941 to $250 billion by 1945 • End of Depression • Joined United Nations • Only major power without significant physical damage

  24. 7 Future American Presidents Views of the World Were Formed by Service in WWII

  25. WWII Memorial, Washington, DC Dedicated on April 29, 2004

  26. SOURCES • Brinkley, American History: A Survey 10e • America:Pathways to the Present (2003) • National Archives and Records Administration • Thomson Wadsworth US History Image Bank - http://www.wadsworth.com/history_d/special_features/image_bank_US/1931_1945.html • Teaching Politics, http://teachpol.tcnj.edu/amer_pol_hist/_browse1950.htm • American Journey Online • Divine, America Past and Present Revd 7th Ed. • Nash, The American People 6e; http://wps.ablongman.com/long_nash_ap_6/0,7361,592970-,00.html • Faragher, Out of Many 3e http://wps.prenhall.com/hss_faragher_outofmany_ap/ • Jones, Created Equal • Kennedy, American Pageant 13e • Susan Pojer, Horace Greeley H.S., Chappaqua, NY • Henretta, America’s History 5e, http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/mapcentral • Roark, American Promise 3e, http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/mapcentral • http://www.printmini.com/printables/mil/index.shtml (camouflage)

  27. Franklin Roosevelt in wheelchair

  28. Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill, Tehran, 1943

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