1. All-Out War Total War Economic resources on war effort
USA. Planes and tanks instead of refrigerators
Ended unemployment of the depression era
Interned Japanese Americans and German Americans
Women built ships, planes, and ammunition
Soviet women in combat roles

2. Allies Forge Ahead
Aircraft Carriers- ships that transport aircraft and accommodate the take-off and landing of airplanes
Battle of Midway Allied victory, entirely air fought
Big Three- Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin
Allied Victory in North Africa

3. Allies Forge Ahead
Able to advance through Italy with North Africa under control
Invaded Italy defeated Italian forces in a month
Germans have to send troops
Stalingrad Germans lose turning point for Soviets

4. Allies Push Toward Germany
Eisenhower plans D-Day Assault
D-Day invasion of France
156,000 Allied Troops
Got to Normandy Patton helped allies break through Ger defenses
Took Paris

6. Allies Push Toward Germany
Bombardment of Germany
Crippled Ger industry, cities, military bases
Took France army moved toward Ger
Battle of the Bulge
Germany attempted to break through allied lines
Hitler loses support

7. Allies Push Toward Germany
Yalta Conference- the three would attack Japan
How to Divide Germany

8. Nazis Defeated Axis armies surrender March 1945
Mussolini captured and executed in Italy
Hitler committed Suicide
May 7 Germany surrendered
V-E Day 5/8/1945
12 yrs long

9. Struggle for the Pacific
Japan control Philippines
Bataan Death March, 10,000 die on 65 mile march
Island-Hopping- recapture Japanese held Islands
General Douglas MacArthur
By 1944 US Navy blockaded Japan
Bombed Japan cities

10. Defeat for Japan Japan still had 2 million man army
Bloody battles on Iwo Jima and Okinawa
Japanese rather fight to the death than surrender
Kamikaze- pilots who undertook suicide missions, crashing their explosive-laden planes into USA warships
Allied leaders planned for invasion
*Manhattan Project

11. Defeat for Japan FDR Dies, *Truman becomes president
Use atomic bomb to save American lives
Told Japan to surrender or face “complete destruction” and “utter devastation”

12. Utter Devastation 8/6/1945 USA dropped atomic bomb on Hiroshima
Instantly killed 70,000, many died after from radioactive sickness
No response so second bomb dropped on Nagasaki
40,000 killed
Emperor Hirohito forced the government to surrender
9/2/1945 formal peace signed

13. The Wars Aftermath Millions of Refugees
Hunger, disease, mental illness
Didn’t learn of inhumanity of concentration camps till after war
War crime trials Nuremburg 200 tried, most found guilty
USA helped establish democracies in Europe and Japan

14. Establishing the United Nations
UN Charter- each country has one vote
*Security council- USA, Russia, Britain, France, China had right to veto
*Goal to ensure peace, settle dispute, end wars
Sanctions
Peace keeping military force
Helped nations with basic humanitarian needs

15. Alliance breaks apart USA and Soviet Union world powers
Reparations and nature of government different
Cold War- a state of tension and hostility between nations aligned with the USA on one side and Soviets on the other, without armed conflict between the major rivals

16. Alliance breaks apart
*Stalin wanted Buffer zone and to “protect” Eastern Europe
Eastern Europe become communistic

17. New Conflicts Develop
*Truman Doctrine- containment, limiting communism to the areas already under soviet control
Sent military and economic aid
*Marshall Plan- aid package that funneled food and economic assistance to Western Europe to help countries rebuild
*West Germany (USA, BR, Fr) Easter Germany Soviets (4 sections total)

19. New Conflicts Develop Berlin split into east and west as well
Berlin Airlift, used to get resources to Berlin despite the fact they were cut off from West Germany
*NATO- USA, Can and 10 other states formed military alliance
*Warsaw Pact- Soviet Union 7 satellite states
Eastern and western Blocs
Propaganda War