1. Chapter 17 America and WWII 1941-1945

2. Pearl Harbor
“A date which will live in infamy”
-- FDR

3. USS Arizona today

4. FDR to Eleanor
“I never wanted to fight this war on two fronts. We haven’t got the Navy to fight in both the Atlantic and Pacific…”
U.S.
Eastern Front
Fighting Germany
Western Front
Fighting Japan

5. “Double V” campaign (for A-Americans)
2 “V”ictories
At home = stop racism
Abroad = stop Hitler’s racism

6. General Benjamin O. Davis
Tuskegee Airmen
1st African-American air force
Flew in over 200 missions and never lost a member!
General Benjamin O. Davis
First black American General in the Air Force!

7. Japanese Americans Not allowed to serve at first
Internment Camps
Not allowed to serve at first
Most decorated units in U.S. military!
Native Americans serve fiercely!
Navajo Code Talkers

8. GO GIRL! Women in the war Most women did clerical work
Rosie the Riveter
Most women did clerical work
Made men available for combat
WASPs – women pilots / 300

9. 1942 Turning point in the war!
Both Hitler and Stalin were fervent on winning because of the name of the city
Finally in Jan Nazis surrender

10. D-Day ________ _______ What? Invade France
________ _______
What? Invade France
Who? General Eisenhower commander
America, Britain, and Canada
When? Setting the date was tricky!
June 6, 1944 (D-Day)
Where? Beaches of Normandy, FR
Why? Because we’re trying to beat Germany! 
France
General
Eisenhower

11. D-Day June 6, 1944 Operation Overlord Blue = American Red = British
Yellow = Canadian
UTAH
OMAHA
GOLD
JUNO
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Operation Overlord

12. The Italian Campaign and D-Day were the beginning of the end
The End of the War!
“Full Victory – Nothing Else”
- Gen. Eisenhower
The Italian Campaign and D-Day were the beginning of the end
The Man!

13. Battle of the Bulge December 1944 Belgium Last German Offensive
Heavily armed
German soldier.
Battle of the Bulge
Battle of the Bulge

14. Mistrust! Yalta Conference February 1945
Met at Yalta in Southern Russia (Ukraine)
The “Big Three”
Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin
Agreed to
Have Russia attack Japan after Germ. surrender
Divide Germany into zones after war
Allow free elections in Eastern Europe

15. V-E Day Hitler commits suicide April 30, 1945 Victory in Europe Day
May 8, 1945
Churchill waves
to the crowd
Hitler commits suicide
April 30, 1945

16. President Harry S Truman
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) dies on April 12, 1945
FDR at Yalta
Feb. 1945
Conference between the “Big Three”

17. Island-Hopping Moving from island to island in the Pacific.
Trying to get close to Japan
Island-Hopping
Okinawa

18. Bataan Death March Part of the Battle of Philippines Japanese win
P.O.W.s forced to march 65 miles
Beaten, murdered, starved, forced to walk 5 days straight with only a sip of water, … you name it, they did it.
War crimes trial
A huge reason why WWII vets hate Japanese

19. “People of Philippines,
MacArthur is BAAACK!
First invaded Guadalcanal (Aug 1942)
Then, went on to fight at Leyte Gulf (lay-tee) in the Philippines – take it back after Death March
Largest naval battle in history
Japan
Philippines
Leyte Gulf
“People of Philippines,
I have returned…”
Kamikaze 1st used

20. Focusing on Japan Firebombing Japan March - June 1945
Napalm – jellied gasoline
civilians
67 cities
80,000 dead
Firebombing Japan
March - June 1945

21. Iwo Jima Okinawa April 1945 350 miles from Japan! November 1944
Close enough to bomb Japan more efficiently
OKINAWA
Raising the
flag on
Iwo Jima
April 1945
350 miles from Japan!
Okinawa

22. “Divine Wind”
Suicide attacks
Kamikaze

23. Kamikaze

24. Manhattan Project J. Robert Oppenheimer Developing the atomic bomb
Brown’s Ferry

25. Hiroshima and Nagasaki
4 sq mi flattened
killed instantly
40,000 in Nagasaki
Emperor intervened
August 6th and 9th, 1945
Enola Gay drops “Little Boy” on Hiroshima

27. V-J Day
Victory in Japan Day
August 15, 1945

28. Nuremberg Trials 22 leaders of Nazi Germany prosecuted
12 sentenced to death
Similar trials held in Japan
25 Japanese Leaders
Not the Emperor