Atomic Bomb And The End Of The War

D-Day – June 6, 1944  Largest land, sea, air invasion  Beaches of Normandy, France.  Gen. Eisenhower head general  3 million British, US, and Canadian troops  Allies win  Importance - Freed France

The Manhattan Project  Atomic Bomb  J. Robert Oppenheimer  More than 600,000 involved  Truman didn’t even know until he was President  1 st test – July 1945

Presidential Change  FDR Dies  April 12, 1945  Posing for a portrait, had a stroke, and died  Harry S. Truman takes over

KABOOM!!!!  August 6, 1945  Hiroshima – military center  Enola Gay - Plane  Little Boy – Bomb  43 seconds later it ceased to exist  Did not surrender  Nagasaki  3 days later  Bockscar - Plane  Fat Man - Bomb

The End In Europe  Hitler  Underground headquarters  April 29 – married Eva Braun  Wrote a final address to the people  Blamed Jews for the war  Blamed his generals for losing it  Shot himself + Eva drank poison  May 8, 1945 Surrender  V – E Day

Yalta Conference  Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill  Germany divided into 4 zones  Roosevelt wanted to form the United Nations

The End in The Pacific  Atomic Bomb leaves no choice  Emperor Hirohito - Tojo hung  September 2, 1945  On the USS Missouri  V – J Day  Soldiers under MacArthur occupied Japan for 7 years  Helped reshape government and economy