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1 Major WWII U.S. Military Strategies, Actions & Leaders 1941 - 1945
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From Defense to Offense FDR domestic brilliance Military Generals Experienced Strategists Scientific Innovation Collective race to beat Hitler to the bomb 2
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3 Allies Goal in WWII = “Total Victory” over Axis Helping England was 1 st Priority
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4 North Africa Campaign 1942
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5 Rommel & Eisenhower
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6 Gen. Patton Italy Invasion - Summer ‘43
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7 GI’s Liberating Sicily – July ‘43
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8 Mussolini executed – April 1945
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9 European Theater
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10 Eastern Front – 1942 – ‘44
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11 US B-17’s & P-51’s Bomb Germany
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12 D – Day June 6 th, 1944
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13 3 million Allied soldiers 12,000 Allied planes vs. 300 German
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14 - Air assault then dropping of paratroopers behind enemy lines -Finally amphibious landing
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16 Battle of the Bulge -- December, 1944
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17 Dresden & Berlin Fire Bombed – Spring 1945
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18 Western Allies Meets USSR At Elbe River April, 1945
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19 Liberation of the camps the atrocities were “beyond the American mind to comprehend.”
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20 V-E Day -- May 7 th, 1945
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21 Pacific “Theater”
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22 Gen. MacArthur “Island Hopping” Strategy (1942-1945)
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23 Aircraft Carriers Allied advantages: -defensive -Japan depleted -No help fr. Germany or Italy Turning Points: 1943
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24 Bataan Death March Winter-Spring 1942 At least 16k died within weeks of reaching prison
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25 Iwo Jima Feb./March 1945
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27 Battle of Okinawa: Largest amphibious assault in Pacific war
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28 B-29s Bomb Japan
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29 Harry Truman Becomes President April, 1945
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30 Manhattan Project Hiroshima & Nagasaki Dropping the bomb August 6 th & 9 th 1945
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Establish your opinion and reasoning given your role. Identify likely people who would agree with you; first from the list of 5 roles then from the documents Examine “Atom Bomb Sources” at “US History Handouts” Examine links Devise three specific reasons 31 Should the U.S. do it?
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33 V J Day September 2 nd 1945
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34 IV. Overview of Military & Diplomatic Impacts of WWII: Global “Total” War Brings Unprecedented Devastation –New military techniques & technologies used world wide Examples: Fully Mechanized War, Arial “Fire Bombing”, Paratroopers, Amphibious Invasions, Radar, Flame Throwers, Jets, Nuclear Weapons –Civilians across the globe mobilized & targeted like never before –50 million dead/wounded world wide -- 1 million US dead/wounded New World Order Emerges –U.S. ends isolationism & accepts role as world “superpower” during & after war –Traditional European powers geopolitical influence diminished –US/USSR power struggle (aka “the Cold War”) begins even before WWII officially ends
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