WWII COMES TO AN END

BATTLE OF THE BULGE Allies move on Germany from the west Soviets move in from the east Hitler counter attacks in west hoping to split U.S. & Brit. Forces The German push into Allied lines gave the campaign its name

GERMANY SURRENDERS April 1945 – Allies approach Berlin from southwest April 25, 1945 Soviets surround Berlin and pound with artillery fire April 30, 1945 – Hitler and Eva Braun commit suicide May 7, 1945 – Gen. Eisenhower accepts unconditional surrender of Third Reich from the German military May 9, 1945 – Surrender officially signed in Berlin - U.S. & Allied powers celebrate V-E Day = Victory in Europe Day

THE MANHATTAN PROJECT Code name for creating the first atomic bomb Cost = $2 Billion & employed 600,000 Direct by physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer in Los Alamos, New Mexico

“A RAIN OF RUIN FROM THE AIR” August 6, 1945 – Col. Paul Tibbets pilots the “Enola Gay” B-29 Bomber over Hiroshima and drops the atomic bomb “Little Boy” 5 sq. miles are turned to ashes Of 76,000 buildings, 70,000 flattened Of 350,000 people killing 70-80, ,000 die by the end of By 1950 – 50,000 die from the effects of radiation

“Little Boy”

Hiroshima

August 9, “Fat Man” is dropped on Nagasaki Of 270,000 people – over 70,000 killed immediately

JAPAN SURRENDERS Sept. 2, 1945 – Japan surrenders to. Gen. Douglas MacArthur on the battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay