Total War? - military and civilian By the numbers: - 100 million involved - Axis lost: 6,582,000 military and 1,686,000 civilian - Allies lost: 14,276,800.

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Total War? - military and civilian By the numbers: million involved - Axis lost: 6,582,000 military and 1,686,000 civilian - Allies lost: 14,276,800 military and 25,686,900 civilian (Russia lost over 10 million military and 10 million civilian) (USA lost 400,000 military) Cost? - $1 Trillion (1944 currency) Worldwide -$288 Billion for US

D-Day, VE-Day, Manhattan Project D-Day: June 6, 1944 (Operation Overlord) - Dwight D. Eisenhower directed - Estimated or expected casualties around 9,000 on the initial wave of over 125,000 (number not completely well known) -Sept France freed from Nazi occupation V-E Day: May 8, 1945 Manhattan Project: (J. Robert Oppenheimer) - July 16, 1945 first test (no turning back now) Alamogordo, NM Aug. 6, 1945 “Little Boy” released on Hiroshima - Aug. 9, 1945 “Fat Man” released on Nagasaki

Monday 2/25/13 On a sheet of notebook paper please answer the following questions in complete sentences. Please do your own work!! 1. Explain the reasons why the United States did not join the War at the onset of Germany’s advancements. 2. Explain the reasons for the United States entry into the war and why we went to Europe first? 3. In your own words why did WWII happen? Please give facts behind your opinion. 4. What role did media and radio influence the home front during WWII?

V-J Day Sept. 2, Japan’s unconditional surrender. - USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay. MacArthur

Yalta Conference Feb Potsdam Conference July 1945 Yalta Conference: Who was at the party? - Stalin (USSR) - Churchill (Great Britain) - Roosevelt (USA) Sticking Points: - Poland - Germany (how to divide and does France get a say?) - Eastern Europe - United Nations (until Security Council was re-written) Potsdam Conference:

Potsdam Conference  April 1945 Roosevelt dies  Clement Attlee replaces Churchill for GB  Truman, Attlee and Stalin meet  Stalin wanted Germany to pay. Russia had lost 31,000 factories and 20 million people  By July, the Red Army effectively controlled the Baltic States, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria and Romania, and establishing Communism in PolandRed Army

 Fear of Communism grew  Divided Germany into zones of occupation.