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Moving Toward a Victory

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1 Moving Toward a Victory
Victory in Europe and Italy Surrenders Russia Invade France Remove Italy from the war Sicily King of Italy September 8, 1943

2 D-Day and the Battle of the Bulge
General Eisenhower Size or extent; Length; Width or Height 155,000 Normandy 2,500 August 25, 1944 Belgium Fuel Reserves East and West

3 Germany and Victory in Europe
January 1945 West April 12, 1945 Harry Truman Berlin April 30, 1945 Victory in Europe

4 Victory in the Pacific and Island Hopping
24) Battle of the Midway 25) American forces would capture Japanese held islands and go around to others 26) 6 Months 27) Navajo soldiers 28) Unable to understand the Navajo language 29) Manila 30) 14,000 31) 350,000 32) 100,000

5 Japan Holds Firm 33) Iwo Jima-February and Okinawa-April 34) 6,000 35) 12,000 36) 1% 37) Suicide pilots crashed their planes into American ships 38) Shipping 39) Food

6 The Atomic Bomb 40) ½ Million 41) New Mexico Desert
42) Hiroshima August 6, 1945 43) 130,000 44) Nagasaki-August 9, 1945 45) 35,000 46) August 14, 1945 47) V-J Day 48) September 2, 1945


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