1. Chronicle the events that led to victory for the Allied Powers in WWII Analyze the reasons why the Axis powers lost/Allied powers won WWII

2. Dday = Rest of the War… –December 1944 = Battle of the Bulge –February 1945 = Yalta Conference –April 1945 = Mussolini’s end –April-May 1945 = Race to Berlin May 8 = VE Day –Summer 1945 = Beating Japan August 14 = VP Day

4. Must get what out of the Germans (this time) Germany and Berlin to be split up into 4 zones –rebuilding to be done in the 4 zones Cartoon?

5. Stalin allowed to reshape Eastern European countries –Poland is major issue –Stalin agrees to free elections (ha!!)

7. Incendiary bombs were used…create fires Cultural Center of Dresden destroyed Most military targets not damaged Oil refineries not damaged 35-100K deaths –~85-100K deaths in atom bomb attacks 2 months from end of the war

16. Benito Mussolini captured and killed by the Italian people

22. April 25, 1945 Stalin beats Eisenhower to Berlin April 29, 1945 Hitler found dead in Bunker –Goebbels found dead too May 8, 1945 = V-E Day –Victory in Europe Day

24. Your ideas? Hitler = made mistakes with Suez Canal and Operation Barbarossa Hitler physically ill…mentally ill also? Germany out- produced by Allies FDR, Churchill and Stalin let Generals do the work

26. FDR dies April 12, 1945 Unprepared Harry Truman takes over… Truman will be much more blunt & confrontational than FDR was –Good for what?

27. Okinawa is the last major battle against Japan Kamikaze planes (suicide planes dw) reveal something to USA –Japan will fight to the death –Japanese propaganda

28. Top Secret plan to build Atomic Bomb As VP, Truman didn’t know about it When inaugurated, he was finally told Bat Bomb 

29. Truman tells Stalin of Atomic Bomb (?) Truman gets Stalin’s support to beat Japan –Does he want it? Warning issued to Japan to surrender unconditionally –Japan has no answer Poland????

30. 2 Options –Drop A-Bomb (pro/con) –Invade with US army (pro/con) Is time on his side?

31. Hiroshima, Aug 6, 1945 Nagasaki, Aug 9, 1945 Death toll? –At least 100K –Some estimates at 200K V-J Day follows –victory in Japan

39. 1.Rebuilding Japan and Germany 2.United Nations created 3.Nuremburg Trials

40. Germany = 4 occupation zones GB, USA, France and Russia will rebuild

42. Version 2.0 of what org? –League of Nations 50 Countries join 1945 Goal? –Peace...no war –Human rights UN Security Council made up of 5 winners of WW2…veto power  –USA –GB –France –USSR –China

43. 24 Nazis on trial –16 charged with war crimes “Crimes against Humanity” –12 sentenced to death, 3 life sentences Effects of Trials = political and military leaders held accountable for Holocaust Justice?

44. Cold War Europe is in shambles –In whose image will it be rebuilt?