14.

4 Victory in
Europe and
the Pacific

Questions
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Notes:
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14.4 Victory in Europe and the Pacific
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A. The Allied Home Fronts
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i. factories converted for total war help cause
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ii. propaganda used to get support
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iii. Japanese-Americans sent to internment camps
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Paying for the War

Paying for the War

Paying for the War

Betty Grable: Allied Pinup Girl

She Reminded Men What They Were Fighting

For

On December 7, 1941,
the USA was brought
into the World War when
Japan attacked the US
fleet at Pearl Harbor,
Hawaii.

What should be done about the Japanese American

population?

Questions
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Notes:
________________________________________________________
14.4 Victory in Europe and the Pacific
________________________________________________________
A. The Allied Home Fronts
________________________________________________________
i. factories converted for total war help cause
________________________________________________________
ii. propaganda used to get support
________________________________________________________
iii. Japanese-Americans sent to internment camps
________________________________________________________
B. The Tide Turns on Two Fronts (1943)
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i. Stalin wanted Allies to attack Germany in West
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but Allies delayed, focusing on North Africa
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ii. Axis forces defeated in North Africa in 1943
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iii. Battle of Stalingrad turns the war in Russia
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iv. Allies invade Italy in 1943
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C. Victory in Europe
________________________________________________________
i. D-Day Invasion (aka Operation Overlord) began
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June 6, 1944 Allies attacked Normandy
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ii. Battle of the Bulge Hitlers counter-attack in
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Ardennes Forest fails Allied victory certain
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iii. Roosevelt dies April 1945, Germany surrenders
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May 9, 1945 (aka VE Day)
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Axis Powers in 1942

Allies agree to defeat
Nazis in Europe and then
Japanese
Stalin wants Allies to
attack Western Europe
Allies focus on North
Africa
Move through Italy
Attack in France in
May 1944

Questions
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Notes:
________________________________________________________
14.4 Victory in Europe and the Pacific
________________________________________________________
A. The Allied Home Fronts
________________________________________________________
B. The Tide Turns on Two Fronts (1943)
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C. Victory in Europe
________________________________________________________
i. D-Day Invasion (aka Operation Overlord) began
________________________________________________________
ii. Battle of the Bulge Hitlers counter-attack in
________________________________________________________
Ardennes Forest fails Allied victory certain
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iii. Roosevelt dies April 1945, Germany surrenders
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May 9, 1945 (aka VE Day)
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D. Victory in the Pacific
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i. kamikaze (suicide) pilots attacked Allied ships
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ii. desperate battles, like Iwo Jima and Okinawa
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fought on islands as Allies pushed to Japan
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iii. a top-secret operation, Manhattan Project, had
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developed an atomic (nuclear) bomb (aka A________________________________________________________
bomb)
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iv. bombs dropped on Hiroshima and then Nagasaki
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v. Japan surrenders September 2, 1945
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To win the war, the Allies had to go island hopping

Okinawa
110,000
Japanese
and
12,500
Americans
die in
April 1945

Iwo Jima,
fell to US
Marines in
March 1945

Japanese
fleet
stopped in
June 1942

Japanese base
destroyed at
Guadalcanal

The Manhattan Project:

Los Alamos,
NM

Major General
Lesley R. Groves

Dr. Robert
Oppenheimer

I have
become
death,
the shatterer
of worlds!

Tinian Island, 1945

Little Boy

Fat Man

Enola Gay Crew

Col. Paul Tibbets & the A-Bomb

Hiroshima August 6, 1945

70,000 killed
immediately.
48,000 buildings.
destroyed.
100,000s died of
radiation poisoning &
cancer later.

Nagasaki August 9, 1945

40,000 killed
immediately.
60,000 injured.
100,000s died of
radiation poisoning
& cancer later.

Japanese A-Bomb Survivors

Hiroshima Memorials

V-J Day (September 2, 1945)

Japanese POWs, Guam

V-J Day in Times Square, NYC