1. Wartime Propaganda
Propaganda: A form of communication that is aimed at influencing the attitude of a community toward some cause or position.
1. Based on the examples seen in class, what do you believe to be the requirements for the effective use of propaganda?
2. What positive effects did the use of propaganda have in the United States during WWII?
3. What are the dangers of propaganda?
4. Are examples of propaganda evident today? If so, where?

2. Ch.26, Section 5 “Victory and Consequences”

3. After D-Day After D-Day Allied forces swept inland
They had to gain control of enough land to not fear being surrounded by the Germans
The main goal then was to liberate Paris from Nazi rule, and essentially free all of France

4. Germany’s Last Offensive
US General George Patton led Allied tank forces through German lines and pushed toward Germany
Hitler drafted every able-bodied German man from age and planned one last desperate attack
Eisenhower
Bradley
Patton

5. Germany attacked a weak point in the Allied lines in the Ardennes Forest in heavy snow
The Allies were pushed back 65 miles but their lines never broke
Both sides suffered heavy losses
After the attack was pushed back, the Germans were unable to stop the Allied advance into Germany
Battle of the Bulge

6. Closing in on Hitler
While the Soviet Union pushed toward Berlin from the east, the US and its allies pushed in from the west
Allied bombing raids on German cities killed tens of thousands of civilians
In the fire-bombing of one city, Dresden, 35,000 died there alone
Still, Hitler refused to surrender

7. V-E Day
As the Soviet Union’s forces closed in on the German capitol Berlin from the east and the US led forces advanced in the west, Adolf Hitler committed suicide
A week later Germany surrendered
The Allies celebrated May 8, 1945 as V-E Day (Victory in Europe Day) while the war in the Pacific continued on against Japan

8. Final Solution
As Allied forces pushed into Germany at the end of the war, evidence of atrocities committed by the Nazis against the Jews and other people became known
Soon after taking power Hitler began blaming the Jews for all of the problems in Germany
He passed laws stripping them of their citizenship and seized their property
On Kristallnacht or “The Night of the Broken Glass” Jewish homes, synagogues, and businesses were looted and destroyed

9. Many Jews who did not escape the country were imprisoned in concentration camps
The Final Solution was the Nazi German name for the planned genocide (extermination of an entire group of people) of the Jewish people in Europe
Death camps were built with gas chambers designed to kill large numbers of people and ovens to cremate the bodies

10. Holocaust Many of the death camps were in German-occupied Poland
The Germans shipped Jews from all over Europe to these death camps
The largest of these was in Auschwitz were over a million people were killed
Over 6 million Jews were killed in the Holocaust
Over 11 million people total were killed in it, including Gypsies, Slavs, political opponents, and people with disabilities

11. Pacific War in 1945 Iwo Jima and Okinawa were taken in early
1945 so US could
use their airbases
to bomb Japan
◄ Okinawa ▲
Iwo
Jima
Black arrows
represent the
plans for an
invasion of Japan
if atomic bombs
were not used

12. Atomic Weapons End the War
in the summer of 1945, Japan continued to fight while the US planned an invasion that could cost 200,000 US casualties and potentially over a million Japanese lives

13. Manhattan Project
the US’s secret program began right after the start of the war, was led by J. Robert Oppenheimer, that took 3 years to build an atomic bomb

14. Decision to use the Atomic Bomb
After the successful test of the atomic bomb, President Truman told Japan that if it didn’t surrender it would face destruction
Japan refused to surrender

15. Hiroshima
The 1st atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, which killed 70,000 people instantly
The plan and pilot that dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima ▲

16. The explosion in the sky
above Hiroshima by atomic
bomb called “Little Boy” ▼
The destruction
in Hiroshima after
the bomb struck ▼

17. Nagasaki US dropped a 2nd atomic bomb on Nagasaki eight days later
Japan surrenders five days later
◄ the second atomic
bomb dropped in the
war, nicknamed “Fat Boy”

18. War Ends
Japanese officially surrender on Sept. 2, 1945 aboard the U.S.S. Missouri in Tokyo Bay

19. MacArthur (left) and Japanese representative (right) sign the surrender document

20. President Truman announces to the press that the Japanese have surrendered

21. End of WWII
Over 50 million people killed (more than half of them were civilians)
Economies of Europe and Asia destroyed
Millions of people without homes, water, and food
Since war was fought other places, US economy escaped this destruction
US emerged as the strongest nation on Earth, politically, economically, and militarily