1. JAPAN DOMINATED SE ASIA AND THE WESTERN PACIFIC
1942 Continued...
JAPAN DOMINATED SE ASIA AND THE WESTERN PACIFIC
UNTIL JAPANESE SETBACKS…
CORAL SEA
GUADALCANAL
MIDWAY

2. 1942 Continued.. TURNING POINT IN THE WAR SOVIETS ON THE OFFENSIVE
LENINGRAD STILL UNDER SIEGE
HITLER ABANDONS MOSCOW TO
CAPTURE CAUCASUS OIL FIELDS
NEAR STALINGRAD
Battle of Stalingrad
Soviet Victory
90,000 German POW’s
Only 5,000 survive

3. 1943 ALLIES INVADE THE SOFT UNDERBELLY OF EUROPE GERMAN RETREAT
FROM USSR
ITALY AND GERMANY
DEFEATED IN N. AFRICA
Mussolini
Arrested
Due to
Italian
losses
ALLIES INVADE SICILY

4. 1943 Continued... ITALY DECLARES WAR ON GERMANY Italy Surrenders
To Allies
Mussolini Rescued by Germans
Sets up German Puppet State in N. Italy
ITALY DECLARES
WAR ON GERMANY
HAMBURG, GERMANY FIREBOMBED
60,000 SUFFOCATED
OR BAKED ALIVE
Germans Fiercely
Resistant

5. 1944 US ISLAND HOPPING IN THE PACIFIC
Securing bases for strategic bombing
MARIANAS
Japanese Military
and Civilian Suicides
PHILIPPINE SEA
“Turkey Shoot”
TOJO Resigns
JAPANESE KAMIKAZI
HIS TARGET
MacArthur: Philippines
“I HAVE RETURNED”

6. 1944 Continued...
D-DAY JUNE 6
OPERATION OVERLORD

7. 1944 Continued... LIBERATION OF PARIS LAST GERMAN COUNTER-OFFENSIVE
IN BELGIUM
GERMANY RETREATS FROM ITALY

8. 1944 Continued...
SOVIETS LIBERATE EXTERMINATION CAMPS IN POLAND

9. 1945 YALTA CONFERENCE AGREEMENTS Churchill FDR Stalin
Soviets get ½ Poland
½ E. Prussia
Churchill FDR Stalin
Four occupation zones in
Germany and Berlin
Soviets 30 miles from Berlin:
agree to free elections
in liberated countries
Disarm Germans
Punish War Criminals

10. 1945 Continued... U.S. TAKES IWO JIMA US BOMBS TOKYO WITH NAPALM
660 MILES FROM TOKYO
US BOMBS TOKYO
WITH NAPALM
AND INCENDIARIES

11. 1945 Continued... GERMAN FORCES IN ITALY SURRENDER MUSSOLINI CAPTURED
SHOT
WITH HIS MISTRESS
HUNG
BEATEN

12. US AND SOVIET FORCES MEET
1945 Continued...
US FORCES ADVANCE
INTO GERMANY
ALLIES LIBERATE CONCENTRATION CAMPS IN GERMANY
US AND SOVIET FORCES MEET
IN GERMANY

13. 1945 Continued... Harry Truman Sworn In Truman learns of
Manhattan Project

14. CHURCHILL SITS IN CHAIR
1945 Continued...
HITLER’S BUNKER
HITLER AND EVA BRAUN - SUICIDE
CHURCHILL SITS IN CHAIR
FROM HITLER’S BUNKER
GOEBBELS

15. 1945 Continued... VE DAY!! GERMANY SURRENDERS
SURRENDERED GERMAN TROOPS
NEW YORK
LONDON
2 MILLION GERMAN GIRLS
AND WOMEN WERE RAPED
BY THE RED ARMY

16. 1945 Continued... OKINOWA FALLS PHILIPPINES RECAPTURED
LAST AMPHIBIAN OPERATION
HIGH CASUALTIES, COMBAT FATIGUE
350 MILES FROM JAPAN
BASE FOR AIR OPERATIONS
ON PLANNED INVASION
PHILIPPINES
RECAPTURED

17. 1945 Continued... POTSDAM CONFERENCE DETERMINE PUNISHMENT FOR GERMANY
Atlee, Truman, Stalin
END THE WAR IN THE PACIFIC
Joint Ultimatum Issued:
“Unconditional Surrender”
Or “prompt and utter destruction”

18. AUGUST 6TH HIROSHIMA
100,000 DIE INSTANTLY
60% OF CITY GONE

19. AUGUST 9TH NAGASAKI
FAT MAN
35,000 DEAD
SOVIETS INVADE MANCHURIA

20. VJ DAY!!
AUGUST 14TH
JAPAN SURRENDERS

21. 1945 Continued... WORLD WAR II ENDS COLD WAR BEGINS THE IRON CURTAIN
PHYSICAL AND IDEALOGICAL BOUNDARY
BETWEEN COMMUNIST AND CAPITALIST STATES

22. THE END