The Allies are Victorious

Two Fronts The Allies planed to weaken Germany by fighting them on both fronts (from France and Russia). General Bernard Montgomery (Britain) and General Dwight Eisenhower (US) led troops in North Africa.

Two Fronts A harsh winter helped Russia fight off Germany at the end of the war. The Allied conquest of Sicily got Mussolini out of power.

Americans American Industries converted peacetime operations to wartime production Automobile factories made tanks, typewriter companies made armor-piercing shells Meat, Sugar, Tires, Gasoline, Nylon stocking, laundry soap  All of these things were rationed

Americans Following the attack at Pearl Harbor many Japanese-Americans were forced into Internment Camps

Allies Allied forces landed on the coast of Normandy on D-Day. France, Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands were liberated following D-Day. After the Battle of the Bulge the Allies surrounded and cut off Berlin

Allies General Eisenhower accepted the unconditional surrender from the Third Reich. Roosevelt didn’t know WWII’s outcome because he died suddenly a month before the war’s end. V-E Day is May 8, 1945

Pacific Kamikaze – Japanese suicide pilots Invading Japan would cost the Allies half a million lives Truman found out about the Manhattan Project when he became president after Roosevelt’s death The 2 cities that were bombed with the A-bomb were Hiroshima & Nagasaki.

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