1. How do the Allies defeat the Axis Powers?
The Allied Victory
How do the Allies defeat the Axis Powers?

2. Planning the Victory
Big Three meet in Tehran to plan victory in Europe, FDR & Churchill go to Cairo meet w/ Chiang Kai-shek to plan Pac War
1945: Big three meet at Yalta to discuss post-war plans, will meet later that year at Potsdam to finalize plans

3. D-Day: Invasion of Normandy (European War)
June : Allies launch an invasion in N. France
Led by Eisenhower & Monty, 150K allied troops land, thousands killed
Gen Omar Bradley begins air assault, Allies winning within a month
Nov 1944: FDR reelected for fourth term
Great Britain

4. Dec 1944: With Soviets pushing from East, Hitler counterattacks West at the Battle of the Bulge, Germans lose must retreat
April 1945: FDR dies, VP Truman now President
4/30/1945: Hitler’s suicide, 5/7/45- Germany surrenders to Ike (VE Day)
Nov 1945: Nuremberg Trials – Nazis appear before military tribunal, most found guilty

5. The Pacific War
March 1945: Allies take the island of Iwo Jima (over 18K-Japan, 6K-Allies killed in one month)
April 1945: Battle of Okinawa, bloodiest battle of the Pac war: 100K Japanese & 19K Allied troops killed in a month and a half
Japan refuses to surrender. Allies preparing for an invasion of Japan

7. The Manhattan Project
Gen Leslie R. Groves & physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer developed Atomic bombs at Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico
A-Bomb could release more energy than 20,000 tons of TNT
July 1945: Gadget was exploded during “Trinity Test”
Trinity Test

9. August 6, 1945 a plane named Enola Gay dropped “Little Boy” on the city of Hiroshima
Japan doesn’t surrender. Three days later, a plane named Bockscar dropped “Fat Man” on Nagasaki
Japan surrenders on Aug 14th, 1945 (V-J Day)

10. Should the US have dropped the A-Bomb?
Japanese Govt refused an unconditional surrender
American Choices:
Negotiate a conditional surrender (if possible)
Invade Japan
Ask Soviets to help invade Japan
Demonstrate power of A-bomb and use if Japan does not surrender
Use the A-bomb
Discuss: What course of action should the Us have taken to end the Pacific War?
Does using the A-bomb constitute a war crime or was it necessary to end the war