Day 72 Objectives Chronicle the events that led to victory for the Allied Powers in WWII Analyze the reasons why the Axis powers lost/Allied powers won.

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Day 72 Objectives Chronicle the events that led to victory for the Allied Powers in WWII Analyze the reasons why the Axis powers lost/Allied powers won WWII

The End of WWII Dday = June 6, 1944 Rest of the War… December 1944 = Battle of the Bulge February 1945 = Yalta Conference April 1945 = Mussolini’s end April-May 1945 = Race to Berlin May 8 = VE Day Summer 1945 = Beating Japan August 14 = VP Day

Yalta Conference February 1945

Issues at the Yalta Conference Germany and Berlin to be split up into 4 zones rebuilding to be done in the 4 zones Eastern Europe and the cartoon…

Stalin allowed to reshape Eastern European countries Poland is major issue Stalin agrees to free elections (ha!!)

Cultural Center of Dresden

The Real Response Incendiary bombs were used…create fires Cultural Center of Dresden destroyed Most military targets not damaged Oil refineries not damaged ~35K deaths ~85-100K deaths in atom bomb attacks 2 months from end of the war

Architecture destroyed

Semper Opera House

Dresden Frauenkirche

5e. April 1945 Benito Mussolini captured and killed by the Italian people

Mussolini’s End

April 25, 1945 Stalin beats Eisenhower to Berlin USA & USSR Race to Berlin April 25, 1945 Stalin beats Eisenhower to Berlin April 29, 1945 Hitler found dead in Bunker Goebbels found dead too May 8, 1945 = V-E Day Victory in Europe Day

Winning the Pacific

FDR dies April 12, 1945 Harry Truman takes over… Truman will be much more blunt & confrontational than FDR was

Winning the Pacific

Discovery in Pacific ↓ Okinawa is the last major battle against Japan Kamikaze planes (suicide planes) reveal something to USA Japan will fight to the death Japanese propaganda

Manhattan Project Top Secret plan to build Atomic Bomb As VP, Truman didn’t know about it When inaugurated, he was finally told Bat Bomb 

Potsdam Conference July 1945 Truman tells Stalin of Atomic Bomb (?) Truman gets Stalin’s support to beat Japan Does he want it? Warning issued to Japan to surrender unconditionally Japan has no answer Poland????

Truman’s Dilemma Truman’s Options… Is time on his side?

Atomic Bomb Hiroshima, Aug 6, 1945 Nagasaki, Aug 9, 1945 Death toll? At least 100K Some estimates at 200K V-J Day follows victory in Japan

Nagasaki

Hiroshima

Hiroshima

Hiroshima

Over 75 million deaths worldwide from WWII

Post-War Goal = Prevent another World War (for real this time) Rebuilding Japan and Germany United Nations created Nuremburg Trials

Rebuilding Germany Germany = 4 occupation zones GB, USA, France and Russia will rebuild

Rebuilding Japan 1945-1952

NATIONS Version 2.0 of what org? League of Nations 50 Countries join 1945 Goal? Peace...no war Human rights UN Security Council made up of 5 winners of WW2…veto power  USA GB France USSR China

Nuremburg Trials 24 Nazis on trial 16 charged with war crimes “Crimes against Humanity” 12 sentenced to death, 3 life sentences Effects of Trials = political and military leaders held accountable for Holocaust Justice?

WWII leads to… Cold War Europe is in shambles In whose image will it be rebuilt?

Title = Truman’s Dilemma Closing Question Title = Truman’s Dilemma Did Harry Truman handle the conclusion of WW2 properly? If yes, why? If not, what should he have done?