Moving Toward a Victory Victory in Europe and Italy Surrenders Russia Invade France Remove Italy from the war Sicily King of Italy September 8, 1943

D-Day and the Battle of the Bulge General Eisenhower Size or extent; Length; Width or Height 155,000 Normandy 2,500 August 25, 1944 Belgium Fuel Reserves East and West

Germany and Victory in Europe January 1945 West April 12, 1945 Harry Truman Berlin April 30, 1945 Victory in Europe

Victory in the Pacific and Island Hopping 24) Battle of the Midway 25) American forces would capture Japanese held islands and go around to others 26) 6 Months 27) Navajo soldiers 28) Unable to understand the Navajo language 29) Manila 30) 14,000 31) 350,000 32) 100,000

Japan Holds Firm 33) Iwo Jima-February and Okinawa-April 34) 6,000 35) 12,000 36) 1% 37) Suicide pilots crashed their planes into American ships 38) Shipping 39) Food

The Atomic Bomb 40) ½ Million 41) New Mexico Desert 42) Hiroshima August 6, 1945 43) 130,000 44) Nagasaki-August 9, 1945 45) 35,000 46) August 14, 1945 47) V-J Day 48) September 2, 1945