1. Agenda Warm Up Discussion: End of World War II
D-Day Video Clip
The Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
More Videos
Was the atomic bomb the best solution: Discussion
Atomic Bomb Effects
HW: Hitler Conspiracy Theories

2. Warm Up
List the Axis and Allies powers.
Axis Allies -

3. End of the War

4. Allies Win Africa General George Patton leads US and British forces
Land and attack through Northern Africa
German General Rommel finally defeated

5. The End of Italy and Mussolini
After Africa, Allies attack Sicily and move into Italy in 1943.
Across Italy: factories shut down, Allied bombings, food shortages, Mussolini attempts to escape
Resistance fighting would continue until 1945.
Mussolini executed and hanged in public square in 1945.

6. D-Day
June 6th, 1944: 2 million troops mobilized to strike on the coast of Normandy, France.
Germans knew an attack was coming, but didn’t know where.
Bombings, paratroopers, and amphibious assault.
Formidable German resistance on the beach, with machine guns and barbed wire.
10,000 Allied troops dead/injured in one day
In August 1944 France liberated, over 200,000 Allied forces die

10. Battle of the Bulge
Last major German offensive of the war in December 1944
It ultimately failed.
Now Hitler faced a war on two fronts: US and British from West, Soviets from East
More Americans dead/injured than any other battle of the war (20,000)
Germans lose almost all of their tanks and planes

12. End of Hitler and the Nazis
Allied forces closing in 1945
Hitler hears about Mussolini’s death
Soviet troops two blocks away, shots himself in head.
His body set on fire in garden.
Germany would surrender in May 1945.

13. End of War in the Pacific
Island hoping across Pacific
Iwo Jima would be the last major battle in the Pacific, with nearly 110,000 Japanese troops killed in one month.
Now it was on to Japan…

15. The Use of the Atomic Bomb
Instead of facing large troop losses, Truman decided to use the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima (Aug. 6), then in Nagasaki (Aug. 9).
Over 200,000 civilians killed in the two cities.
Surrender would occur on September 2nd.

16. Little Boy
Fat Man
Hiroshima
Nagasaki 

19. Before the Bombing

20. After the Bombing

21. War is Over
London, many cities in Germany, and parts of the Soviet Union lay in ruins.
Conferences were held in Yalta and Potsdam to discuss how countries would recover after the war, and the division of lands held by Germany.
United Nations was formed, with permanent members controlling a peacekeeping force.