2. WWII: Battle Front (1939/41-45) I.Intro II.Pearl Harbor Background & 12/7/41 III.“Big Three” IV.The End A.Defeating Germany B.Defeating Japan V.Conc. Key Terms D-Day Dwight Eisenhower Island Hopping “Kamikaze” Harry Truman Manhattan Project

3. German Aggression Adolf Hitler (1889-1945)

4. Pearl Harbor Attack (12/7/1941) 19 ships sunk, 350 planes destroyed Over 2,000 dead USS West Virginia Image Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. Three US Aircraft carriers escaped Significance: It completely united Americans

5. 12/7/1941 USS Arizona explosions kill about 1,100

6. WWII Alliances Allies Great Britain France USSR US Axis Germany Italy Japan

7. “Big Three” Prime Minister of Great Britain Goal: Attack “Soft Underbelly” of Europe Winston Churchill (1874-1965) Italy

8. “Big Three” Leader of Soviet Union (USSR) Goal: A “Second Front” in western Europe 25-30 million Soviets died during WWII Joseph Stalin (1879-1953)

9. “Big Three” US President Goal: Defeat Germany first with fewest US casualties Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945)

10. D-Day (June 6, 1944) Allied invasion in western France. Involved over 500,000 Allied troops. Dwight Eisenhower (1890-1969) Eisenhower oversaw the invasion

11. Germany’s Defeat Germany surrendered May 8, 1945.

12. Island Hopping (US Strategy) The US went from Island to Island in the Pacific on their way to the Japanese mainland.

13. Iwo Jima (February-March, 1945) 6,800 US dead 19,000 US wounded 21,000 Japanese dead *Figures are approximate

14. Okinawa April-June, 1945 12,500 US/Allied dead 35,000 US/Allied wounded 100,000 Japanese soldiers dead 80,000 Japanese civilians dead or wounded *Figures are approximate

15. “Kamikaze” Japanese “suicide” planes

16. Tokyo Was Firebombed March, 1945 (two days) About 80,000 dead 250,000 buildings destroyed

17. FDR was having his portrait painted He died here, after being taken to his bed

18. A New President No knowledge of Manhattan Project Harry S Truman (1945-1953)

19. A New President Truman had no knowledge of Manhattan Project: –Goal: build Atomic Bomb –Secretly employed 120,000 & cost $2 billion US warned Japan to surrender or face “utter destruction” Harry S Truman (1945-1953)

20. Atomic Warfare Hiroshima (8/6/45): 100,000 Japanese dead Nagasaki (8/9/45): 40,000 Japanese dead Japanese Surrender (8/14/45) Hiroshima

21. WWII: Battle Front (1939/41-45) I.Intro II.Pearl Harbor Background & 12/7/41 III.“Big Three” IV.The End A.Defeating Germany B.Defeating Japan V.Conc. Key Terms D-Day Dwight Eisenhower Island Hopping “Kamikaze” Harry Truman Manhattan Project