1. How the War Ended

2. Unit Objectives To assess America’s impact on the war
To learn about WWII battles

3. U.S. sent troops to Europe first—Why?
Distraction similar to the Zimmermann Note of WWI???

4. Europe
Battle of Stalingrad (1942):

5. Europe
Allied invasion of Italy (1943):

6. Europe D-Day (1944)--This is an ID:
Official name for it was Operation Overlord
It was the largest fighting force ever established for battle
It was the Allied invasion of Normandy, France in an attempt to liberate France from German control and provide a continental launch point for an invasion of Germany and Italy
The Italian people overthrew Mussolini and then surrendered as a result of the Allied invasions of Italy from the south and north

8. Europe
Battle of the Bulge (1944):

9. Europe
VE-Day (May 8, 1945):

10. Pacific Island-Hopping:
American code-breakers broke the Japanses secret code

11. Pacific Midway (1942): Turning point in the Pacific
1ST major U.S. victory over Japan
American ambush of Japanese attack on Midway that resulted from breaking their code
Japan lost four air craft carriers, the heart of their fleet
Six months after Pearl Harbor America had stopped the advance of the Japanese and started to push toward Japan

12. Pacific
Okinawa (1945):
What was “Operation Olympic” (1945)?

13. Pacific
President Harry Truman decided to use the atomic bomb instead

16. Pacific
Hiroshima and Nagasaki (August, 1945):

17. Japanese officials on the U.S.S. Missouri to formally surrender

18. V-J Day