1. THE END OF THE WAR IN EUROPE

2. YALTA CONFERENCE February 4-11, 1945
Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill – “The Big 3”
Decide what to do with Germany after the war- divide the country into 4 demilitarized zones

3. MANHATTAN PROJECT Project used to design the atomic bomb for the US
Employed more than 600,000 people and cost $2 billion
Top-Secret facilities in Los Alamos, NM, Hanford, WA and Oak Ridge, TN

4. J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER
Physicist in charge of running the Manhattan Project
University of California at Berkley

5. ROOSEVELT DIES
Died in Warm Springs, Georgia on April 12, 1945 of a cerebral hemorrhage 3 months into his 4th term
Harry S. Truman, VP, becomes the 33rd President

6. HITLER COMMITS SUICIDE
On April 30, 1945 two days after being married, Hitler and his mistress Eva Braun committed suicide inside a bunker in Berlin, Germany
Braun died of cyanide poisoning and Hitler of both poisoning and a self- inflicted gun shot

7. HITLER CONTINUED
Guards found the bodies of Hitler and Braun, doused them in gasoline and burned the bodies
The bodies were rumored to have been destroyed in later bombing or removed by the Russian Red Army and reburied several times

8. VICTORY IN EUROPE DAY
“VE Day” May 8, 1945 the day after the Germans unconditionally surrendered to the Allies

9. More than one million people celebrated in the streets of Europe
CELBRATION IN EUROPE
More than one million people celebrated in the streets of Europe

10. War crimes hearings held against Axis Powers leaders
NUREMBERG TRIALS ( )
War crimes hearings held against Axis Powers leaders
24 Nazis tried- 21 convicted
12 executed, 1 committed suicide, 3 acquittals, the rest were imprisoned (4 for life)