1. World War II (Part III)

2. D-Day, the Normandy Invasion (code named Operation Overlord)
Began on June 6th, 1944
This led to the liberation of France and the beginning of the end for Nazi Germany

3. After D-Day
After D-Day, Allied troops (US & British) pushed east through France
Paris was liberated from German control in August 1944
Allies continued east into Germany

4. Last German offensive, the Battle of the Bulge
FDR was elected to a fourth term in office in 1944 with a new Vice President, Harry S. Truman
Last German offensive, the Battle of the Bulge

5. Photo taken during the Battle of the Buldge

6. YALTA CONFERENCE, 1945: FDR, CHURCHILL AND STALIN MET TO DISCUSS THE FUTURE OF EUROPE AFTER THE WAR.

7. Hitler & Eva Braun Model, actress, girlfriend of Hitler
Married Hitler April 29, 1945
Both committed suicide together on April 30, (Braun took a cyanide pill; Hitler took pill and shot himself in the head)
33 when she died, he was 56
Corpses were burned outside the bunker

9. German Field Marshall Wilhelm Keitel surrenders at Soviet headquarters in Berlin, May 9, The war in Europe is over!

10. NEWSPAPERS CELEBRATE THE SURRENDER OF GERMANY BUT WARN THERE IS STILL JAPAN TO DEFEAT

11. War in the Pacific & the Decision to Drop the A-Bomb

12. MAP SHOWING INVASIONS OF IWO JIMA AND OKINAWA

13. Famous photograph of the flag raising on Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima taken by Joe Rosenthal in February of 1945

14. U.S. INVASION MAPS OF OKINAWA

15. American casualties on Okinawa would exceed 68,000
American casualties on Okinawa would exceed 68,000. Of the nearly 16,000 servicemen killed the burden fell to the naval forces: 8,343 dead sailors, coast guardsmen and marines, the highest toll in naval history. Much of the naval loss was due to the Japanese use of kamikaze suicide plane attacks.

16. Most of the pilots were extremely young
Leyte Gulf
the Kamikaze pilots
Most of the pilots were extremely young

17. PRESIDENT FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT DIED ON APRIL 12, 1945.

18. destruction was unimaginable, Japan STILL refused to surrender
The Enola Gay dropped “little boy” over the city of Hiroshima on August 6th, 1945
destruction was unimaginable, Japan STILL refused to surrender

19. On August 9th a second Atomic Bomb was dropped on the city of Nagasaki

20. ON AUGUST 10TH THE JAPANESE SURRENDERED
Formal surrender, Tokyo Bay, September 2nd, 1945 aboard the U.S.S. Missouri

21. VJ DAY, AUGUST 14, 1945 WORLD WAR II ENDS

22. CAPTURED NAZI LEADERS ON TRIAL FOR THEIR CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY
German War Crimes: Nuremburg Trials
CAPTURED NAZI LEADERS ON TRIAL FOR THEIR CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY