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Battle Of The Atlantic
-German U-Boats were attacking and sinking Allies' merchant boats.
-Allies started using convoys and sonar readings to protect themselves.
-Germans dominated this in the beginning, but the Allies became more powerful. -
Pearl Harbor Bombings
-USA intercepted message that Pearl Harbor was going to be bombed by Japan
-Two full scale attacks left 2,400 Americans dead and 1,178 injured
-USA declares war on Japan the following day and Germany and Italy declare war on USA three days later -
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Battle of the Coral Sea
-Japanese had been dominating the Pacific before US and Australia decided to fight back.
-Japan ended up winning, but the Ally forces finally stopped a Japanese invasion.
-Japan's forces were being weakened by the US' Island Hopping technique. -
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Battle of the Midway
-Admiral Chester Nimitz intercepted a Japanese message, so the US surprise attacked against Japan on the Pacific island Midway.
-Japan sustained severely worse damage in comparison the US, losing many more boats, planes, and soldiers. -
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Battle of Stalingrad
-Germans decided to attack Russia. They had nearly won when the winter of 1943 hit.
-Soviets fought back and defeated the Germans.
-Despite losing over one million people, the Soviets saw this as a turning point an started moving westward towards Germany. -
Normandy Invasion (D-Day)
-3 million Ally troops were prepared to attack.
-It was the largest land-sea-air battle in history with over 600 warships and 11,000 planes.
-By the end of the Normandy invasion, approximately 425,000 Ally and German troops were either dead, wounded, or missing. -
Liberation of France
-On this day, France was freed from the control of Nazi Germany and were now free again -
Battle of the Bulge
-German tanks broke through an 80-mile American front
-Rather extensive and brutal war with the Germans losing 600 tanks and guns and 1,600 planes.
-Americans won but lost 80,000 people while the Germans lost 120,000 people. -
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Yalta Conference
-Franklin D. Roosevelt, Joseph Stalin and Winston Churchill met up in Yalta to see what the world's plans would be after WWll.
-This led to the creation of the United Nations. -
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Iwo Jima
-US tried to claim the pacific island of Iwo Jima
-27,000 Japanese fought for the island in a losing cause
-The Japanese lost 26,800 Japanese troops, while 6,000 US marines lost their lives -
Franklin D. Roosevelt dies
-Franklin D. Roosevelt dies from a fatal cerebral hemorrage.
-USA entered a mass grieving period
-The Vice President, Harry S. Truman, takes over as President of the United States. -
The end of Hitler
-Adolf Hitler and longtime mistress/wife Eva Braun both commit suicide (gunshot and cyanide).
-Both of their bodies were burned. -
V-E Day
-The Allies and General Eisenhower accept the surrender of the Germans.
-This put an end to the first part of the war.
-There was large scale celebration overseas in places such as Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami and New York City. -
Battle of Okinawa
-This was Japan's last push to defend their territory. They used 1,900 Kamikaze attacks.
-110,000 Japanese were lost while their were 7,600 to 12,500 American casualities.
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Potsdam Conference
-Harry Truman, Winston Churchill, Churchill's successor, Clement Atlee, and Joseph Stalin all went to Potsdam in Germany to discuss ways of ending the Nazi reign.
-They divided Germany up into four sections, all controlled by other countries.
-This led to the Nuremberg Trials and forced Japan to surrender.
-They came up with an idea on how to take down Germany and end the reign of the Nazis. -
Manhattan Project / Hiroshima
- The town of Hiroshima was destroyed by an atomic bomb desiged to destroy a whole town. -"Little Boy" annihilated the city in about 43 seconds.
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Manhattan Project / Nagasaki
-The second part of the US' plan was to bomb another Japanese city, Nagasaki.
-Their second atomic bomb, "Fat Man" destroyed half of the city. -
V-J Day part 1
-Just days after being hit by two atomic bombs, Japan accepts their fate and offers an uncoditional surrender. -
Occupation of Japan
-7 out of the 28 leaders were sentenced to death.
-Japan was under the occupancy of the US for six years by General Douglas MacArthur.
-They introduced a new constitution that called for free elections and women suffrage and introduced a free market economy. -
V-J Day part 2
-It was Victory-in-Japan day (V-J Day)
-Japan formally surrenders from the war. -
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Nuremberg Trials
-23 nations were accusing Nazi war criminals in Nuremberg.
-12 of the 22 convicted were sentenced to death.
-Approximately 200 others were convicted, but did not face the same mortal fate.
