WWII THE BATTLE FRONTS AND VICTORY YOU DO NOT HAVE TO COPY INFORMATION IN BLACK

EUROPE AT THE HEIGHT OF AXIS CONTROL

HITLER FIRST STRATEGY FDR AGREES THAT GERMANY IS A LARGER THREAT TO THE WORLD BRITAIN AND THE USSR MUST NOT FALL THE US MAY NEED MORE ALLIES IN THE PACIFIC

ALLIANCE BETWEEN BRITAIN, U.S., AND SOVIET UNION GERMANY INVADED THE USSR IN MAY, 1941 OPERATION BARBAROSSA, 1941 HOPES TO CONQUER RUSSIA BEFORE WINTER STALLED IN THE BALKANS STALINGRAD BECAME THE LINCHPIN 3 MILLION GERMANS AND RUSSIANS KILLED

AMERICAN GENERALS IN EUROPE GENERAL DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER SUPREME COMMANDER OF THE ALLIED FORCES IN EUROPE GENERAL GEORGE S PATTON COMMANDER OF THE US 7 TH IN THE MEDITERRANEAN AND EUROPEAN THEATERS OF WWII

OPERATION TORCH (NORTH AFRICA), 1942 THE USSR DEMANDED A SECOND FRONT UNDER PATTON, THE US INVADED NORTH AFRICA AT MOROCCO 275,000 GERMANS SURRENDER THE US USED NORTH AFRICA TO GET TO THE ISLAND OF SICILY AND THEN TO ITALY “SOFT UNDERBELLY OF EUROPE” THE USSR COMPLAINED IT WAS TAKING TOO LONG

STRATEGIC BOMBING THE ALLIES BOMBED ITALY AND GERMANY TO DESTROY THEIR INDUSTRY BRITISH BOMBED AT NIGHT DESPITE HIGHER CIVILIAN CASUALTIES U.S. CONTINUED DAYTIME RAIDS FROM ENGLAND AND ITALY 1.5 MILLION TONS OF BOMBS WERE DROPPED ON GERMANY IT’S DEBATABLE HOW EFFECTIVE THE BOMBING WAS THEY WERE PSYCHOLOGICALLY TRAUMATIC

BOMBING OF DRESDEN 4,500 TONS OF HIGH EXPLOSIVE INCENDIARY BOMBS 13 SQUARE MILES OF LAND KILLED AN ESTIMATE 135,000 PEOPLE MOST DEVASTATING BOMBING RAID OF WWII

OPERATION OVERLORD (D-DAY), JUNE 6, 1944 D-DAY WAS THE LARGEST AMPHIBIOUS ASSAULT IN HISTORY PLANNED BY GEN. EISENHOWER NUMEROUS FAKE PLANS WERE LEAKED 150,000 TROOPS LANDED ON FIVE BEACHES JUST UNDER 7000 SHIPS WERE INVOLVED FRANCE AND BELGIUM WERE LIBERATED BY SEPTEMBER

D-DAY, JUNE 6, 1944

BATTLE OF THE BULGE, 1944 GERMANS TRY TO PUSH ALLIES BACK TO THE ENGLISH CHANNEL 250,000 GERMAN TROOPS WERE SENT TO TAKE ANTWERP THIS WAS AFTER OPERATION MARKET GARDEN IT CREATED A “BULGE” IN THE ALLIED LINE THE US HELD AT BASTOGNE AND WILL PUSH STEADILY TO BERLIN Bulge

V-E DAY (MAY 8, 1945) THE US AND BRITAIN PUSHED INTO GERMANY FROM THE WEST WHILE THE USSR CAME FROM THE EAST WHILE EUROPEANS CHEERED, AMERICANS FEARED THE WAR IN JAPAN

THE HEIGHT OF THE JAPANESE EMPIRE

AMERICAN GENERAL IN THE PACIFIC GENERAL DOUGLAS MACARTHUR COMMANDER OF ALLIED FORCES IN THE PACIFIC

THE PHILIPPINES JAPAN TOOK GUAM, WAKE ISLAND, AND HONG KONG HALF OF THE AMERICA’S FIGHTER PLANES WERE DESTROYED US LOST THE PHILIPPINES IN MAY 1942 GEN. DOUGLAS MACARTHUR RETREATED TO AUSTRALIA 75,000 AMERICANS WERE FORCED TO MARCH 55 MILES IN THE BATAAN DEATH MARCH 7000 AMERICANS AND FILIPINOS DIED THEY WILL BE IN PRISON CAMPS UNTIL 1945

THE PHILIPPINES US WILL RETAKE THE PHILIPPINES IN 1944 IN THE LARGEST NAVAL BATTLE IN HISTORY 60 JAPANESE SHIPS SUNK PHILIPPINES GIVEN INDEPENDENCE IN 1947

ISLAND HOPPING THE US DECIDED TO ONLY TAKE IMPORTANT ISLANDS TO CONTROL THE AIR AND THE SEA

BATTLE OF MIDWAY, 1942 ADM. NIMITZ SUNK 4 JAPANESE AIRCRAFT CARRIERS AND DESTROYED 100’S OF PLANES U.S. BREAK JAPANESE CODES JAPAN NEVER RECOVERED AND THE TIDE OF WAR TURNED

THE BATTLE OF IWO JIMA AND OKINAWA IWO JIMA (FEB – MARCH 1945) US CASUALTIES EXCEEDED D-DAY JAPANESE SOLDIERS WERE EITHER KILLED OR COMMITTED SUICIDE OKINAWA (APRIL 1, 1945) US CASUALTIES CLOSE TO 50, ,000+ JAPANESE DIED ALLOWED THE DAILY BOMBING OF JAPAN MARCH 9-10 THE US WILL FIREBOMB TOKYO 250,000 BUILDINGS DESTROYED (25% OF TOKYO) 83,000 PEOPLE KILLED, MORE THAN EITHER NUCLEAR BOMB

NAVAJO CODE TALKERS 25,000 NATIVE AMERICANS SERVED IN THE MILITARY THEIR LANGUAGE COULD NOT BE DECODED BY THE JAPANESE KEY TO VICTORY AT IWO JIMA

BOMBING OF TOKYO MARCH 9, ,000 TONS OF INCENDIARY BOMBS ALMOST 16 SQUARE MILES INCINERATED 80,000 – 130,000 JAPANESE CIVILIANS KILLED

THE ATOMIC BOMB THE MANHATTAN PROJECT, 1941 EINSTEIN THEORIZED THE POTENTIAL OF THE BOMB OPPENHEIMER WAS DIRECTOR OF THE $2 BILLION PROJECT OVER 100,000 WORKED ON THE BOMB LAWRENCE NUCLEAR LAB IN IN OAKRIDGE, TN

THE ATOMIC BOMB ALAMOGORDO, NM THE FIRST TEST WAS JULY 16, 1945 IT CREATED A 1,200 FOOT CRATER AND A MUSHROOM CLOUD 8 MILES HIGH SCIENTISTS 7 MILES AWAY KNOCKED BACKWARDS IT COULD BE SEEN 180 MILES AWAY AND HEARD 100 MILES AWAY A BLIND GIRL SAW THE FLASH MILES AWAY

HIROSHIMA, AUG. 6, 1945 ENOLA GAY (B-29) DELIVERED THE 15 KILOTON “LITTLE BOY” ON AUGUST 6, 1945 EXPLODED 1,900 FEET ABOVE THE CITY (100,000,000°) SHADOWS OF PEOPLE WERE LEFT ON THE WALLS 60,000 – 80,000 WERE KILLED BY THE BOMB OR SICKNESS FROM RADIATION ESTIMATED 135,000 FINAL DEATH TOLL Col. Paul Tibbets 10 feet 9700 lbs.

NAGASAKI, AUG. 9, 1945 A SECOND 21 KILOTON BOMB “FAT MAN” WAS DROPPED AUGUST 9, 1945 AT LEAST 50,000 KILLED UPON IMPACT WAS THIS TOO SOON? USSR DECLARED WAR ON JAPAN SOME ARGUE THE BOMB WAS DROPPED TO SCARE THE RUSSIANS AS MUCH AS THE JAPANESE Maj. Charles Sweeney 10’ 8” 10,800 lbs.

THE ATOMIC BOMB

V-J DAY (SEPTEMBER 2, 1945) MACARTHUR ACCEPTED JAPANESE SURRENDER ON THE USS MISSOURI JAPAN KEPT ITS EMPEROR BUT HAD TO WRITE A NEW CONSTITUTION COULD NOT HAVE A MILITARY THE US OCCUPIED JAPAN