JAPAN DOMINATED SE ASIA AND THE WESTERN PACIFIC

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JAPAN DOMINATED SE ASIA AND THE WESTERN PACIFIC 1942 Continued... JAPAN DOMINATED SE ASIA AND THE WESTERN PACIFIC UNTIL JAPANESE SETBACKS… CORAL SEA GUADALCANAL MIDWAY

1942 Continued.. TURNING POINT IN THE WAR SOVIETS ON THE OFFENSIVE LENINGRAD STILL UNDER SIEGE HITLER ABANDONS MOSCOW TO CAPTURE CAUCASUS OIL FIELDS NEAR STALINGRAD Battle of Stalingrad 1942-43 Soviet Victory 90,000 German POW’s Only 5,000 survive

1943 ALLIES INVADE THE SOFT UNDERBELLY OF EUROPE GERMAN RETREAT FROM USSR ITALY AND GERMANY DEFEATED IN N. AFRICA Mussolini Arrested Due to Italian losses ALLIES INVADE SICILY

1943 Continued... ITALY DECLARES WAR ON GERMANY Italy Surrenders To Allies Mussolini Rescued by Germans Sets up German Puppet State in N. Italy ITALY DECLARES WAR ON GERMANY HAMBURG, GERMANY FIREBOMBED 60,000 SUFFOCATED OR BAKED ALIVE Germans Fiercely Resistant

1944 US ISLAND HOPPING IN THE PACIFIC Securing bases for strategic bombing MARIANAS Japanese Military and Civilian Suicides PHILIPPINE SEA “Turkey Shoot” TOJO Resigns JAPANESE KAMIKAZI HIS TARGET MacArthur: Philippines “I HAVE RETURNED”

1944 Continued... D-DAY JUNE 6 OPERATION OVERLORD

1944 Continued... LIBERATION OF PARIS LAST GERMAN COUNTER-OFFENSIVE IN BELGIUM GERMANY RETREATS FROM ITALY

1944 Continued... SOVIETS LIBERATE EXTERMINATION CAMPS IN POLAND

1945 YALTA CONFERENCE AGREEMENTS Churchill FDR Stalin Soviets get ½ Poland ½ E. Prussia Churchill FDR Stalin Four occupation zones in Germany and Berlin Soviets 30 miles from Berlin: agree to free elections in liberated countries Disarm Germans Punish War Criminals

1945 Continued... U.S. TAKES IWO JIMA US BOMBS TOKYO WITH NAPALM 660 MILES FROM TOKYO US BOMBS TOKYO WITH NAPALM AND INCENDIARIES

1945 Continued... GERMAN FORCES IN ITALY SURRENDER MUSSOLINI CAPTURED SHOT WITH HIS MISTRESS HUNG BEATEN

US AND SOVIET FORCES MEET 1945 Continued... US FORCES ADVANCE INTO GERMANY ALLIES LIBERATE CONCENTRATION CAMPS IN GERMANY US AND SOVIET FORCES MEET IN GERMANY

1945 Continued... Harry Truman Sworn In Truman learns of Manhattan Project

CHURCHILL SITS IN CHAIR 1945 Continued... HITLER’S BUNKER HITLER AND EVA BRAUN - SUICIDE CHURCHILL SITS IN CHAIR FROM HITLER’S BUNKER GOEBBELS

1945 Continued... VE DAY!! GERMANY SURRENDERS SURRENDERED GERMAN TROOPS NEW YORK LONDON 2 MILLION GERMAN GIRLS AND WOMEN WERE RAPED BY THE RED ARMY

1945 Continued... OKINOWA FALLS PHILIPPINES RECAPTURED LAST AMPHIBIAN OPERATION HIGH CASUALTIES, COMBAT FATIGUE 350 MILES FROM JAPAN BASE FOR AIR OPERATIONS ON PLANNED INVASION PHILIPPINES RECAPTURED

1945 Continued... POTSDAM CONFERENCE DETERMINE PUNISHMENT FOR GERMANY Atlee, Truman, Stalin END THE WAR IN THE PACIFIC Joint Ultimatum Issued: “Unconditional Surrender” Or “prompt and utter destruction”

AUGUST 6TH HIROSHIMA 100,000 DIE INSTANTLY 60% OF CITY GONE

AUGUST 9TH NAGASAKI FAT MAN 35,000 DEAD SOVIETS INVADE MANCHURIA

VJ DAY!! AUGUST 14TH JAPAN SURRENDERS

1945 Continued... WORLD WAR II ENDS COLD WAR BEGINS THE IRON CURTAIN PHYSICAL AND IDEALOGICAL BOUNDARY BETWEEN COMMUNIST AND CAPITALIST STATES

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