1. 1933
HITLERS AGGRESSION

2. “ISLAND HOPPING”
“Leapfrogging”
1940
Japan=10 aircraft carriers, 145 cruisers/destroyers
USA=3 aircraft carriers, 34 cruisers
Kamikaze pilots
“divine wind”
Loss of 1,300+
Japanese aircrafts

3. British Prime Minister
Aug ; coast of Newfoundland , Atlantic Conference
Joint proclamation against
Axis Powers(Germany,Italy,Japan)
Formed basis of The United Nations
USA not in war……yet
British Prime Minister ,

4. 1940 Selective Service Act; 15 million drafted
300,000 planes, 7 million rifles
960,000 tanks, 39 billion small arms
71,000 ships, 505 million socks

5. 4,600 vessels 11,000 airplanes 175,000 troops (5,000 casualties)
7 days of fighting
80 mile stretch taken for the coastline invasion
Patton in Paris by Aug!
4,600 vessels
11,000 airplanes
175,000 troops (5,000 casualties)

6. Lost 600 tanks/guns, 1,600 planes
“last offensive by Hitler”
80 mile front, over a month
Germans lost 120,000 troops
Lost 600 tanks/guns, 1,600 planes
Hitler suicide April 30th
V-E Day May 8th
Saving Private Ryan clip

7. 1935 Nuremberg Laws 1942 Final Solution 1945 Nuremberg Trials
“Been to the Valley of death”

8. “THE BIG THREE” Feb, 1945 ; Yalta Conference, near the Black Sea
Final defeat & occupation of Nazi Germany. Division of 4 zones
Promise of free elections in eastern Europe & Soviet aid with Japan
“THE BIG THREE”
USA needs USSR aid
in Asia & to join the UN!!

9. “Pearl Harbor Avenged”
70,000 Am/26,000 dead
7,000 Am dead
110,000 Jap’s
MacArthur returns
after 2 yrs
6 months of hell
24,000 J
1,700 Am
5 days, 1st loss for Japan

10. July, 1945 ; Potsdam Conference, Potsdam Germany
Postwar Europe
“prompt & utter destruction” & terms of unconditional surrender

11. Leads 6 yrs of Japanese Occupation,
“MacArthur Constitution”