1. Day 72
Objectives
Chronicle the events that led to victory for the Allied Powers in WWII
Analyze the reasons why the Axis powers lost/Allied powers won WWII

2. The End of WWII Dday = June 6, 1944 Rest of the War…
December 1944 = Battle of the Bulge
February 1945 = Yalta Conference
April 1945 = Mussolini’s end
April-May 1945 = Race to Berlin
May 8 = VE Day
Summer 1945 = Beating Japan
August 14 = VP Day

3. Yalta Conference
February 1945

4. Issues at the Yalta Conference
Germany and Berlin to be split up into 4 zones
rebuilding to be done in the 4 zones
Eastern Europe and the cartoon…

5. Stalin allowed to reshape Eastern European countries
Poland is major issue
Stalin agrees to free elections (ha!!)

6. Cultural Center of Dresden

7. The Real Response Incendiary bombs were used…create fires
Cultural Center of Dresden destroyed
Most military targets not damaged
Oil refineries not damaged
~35K deaths
~85-100K deaths in atom bomb attacks
2 months from end of the war

11. Architecture
destroyed

12. Semper Opera House

13. Dresden Frauenkirche

16. 5e. April
1945
Benito Mussolini captured and killed by the Italian people

17. Mussolini’s End

18. April 25, 1945 Stalin beats Eisenhower to Berlin
USA & USSR
Race to Berlin
April 25, 1945 Stalin beats Eisenhower to Berlin
April 29, 1945 Hitler found dead in Bunker
Goebbels found dead too
May 8, 1945 = V-E Day
Victory in Europe Day

19. Winning
the
Pacific

20. FDR dies April 12, 1945
Harry Truman takes over…
Truman will be much more blunt & confrontational than FDR was

21. Winning the Pacific

22. Discovery in Pacific ↓ Okinawa is the last major battle against Japan
Kamikaze planes (suicide planes) reveal something to USA
Japan will fight to the death
Japanese propaganda

23. Manhattan Project Top Secret plan to build Atomic Bomb
As VP, Truman didn’t know about it
When inaugurated, he was finally told
Bat Bomb 

24. Potsdam Conference July 1945 Truman tells Stalin of Atomic Bomb (?)
Truman gets Stalin’s support to beat Japan
Does he want it?
Warning issued to Japan to surrender unconditionally
Japan has no answer
Poland????

25. Truman’s
Dilemma
Truman’s Options…
Is time on his side?

26. Atomic Bomb Hiroshima, Aug 6, 1945 Nagasaki, Aug 9, 1945 Death toll?
At least 100K
Some estimates at 200K
V-J Day follows
victory in Japan

27. Nagasaki

29. Hiroshima

30. Hiroshima

31. Hiroshima

32. Over 75 million deaths worldwide from WWII

33. Post-War Goal = Prevent another World War (for real this time)
Rebuilding Japan and Germany
United Nations created
Nuremburg Trials

34. Rebuilding Germany Germany = 4 occupation zones
GB, USA, France and Russia will rebuild

35. Rebuilding Japan

36. NATIONS Version 2.0 of what org? League of Nations
50 Countries join 1945
Goal?
Peace...no war
Human rights
UN Security Council made up of 5 winners of WW2…veto power 
USA GB
France
USSR
China

37. Nuremburg Trials 24 Nazis on trial
16 charged with war crimes
“Crimes against Humanity”
12 sentenced to death, 3 life sentences
Effects of Trials = political and military leaders held accountable for Holocaust
Justice?

38. WWII leads to… Cold War Europe is in shambles
In whose image will it be rebuilt?

39. Title = Truman’s Dilemma
Closing
Question
Title = Truman’s Dilemma
Did Harry Truman handle the conclusion of WW2 properly? If yes, why? If not, what should he have done?