3-3: Ending the Second World War - Coach Jacobson's...
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3-3: Ending theSecond World War
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AP Learning Objectives
• NAT 3.0 Analyze how ideas about national identity changed in response to U.S. involvement in international conflicts and the growth of the United States.
• WOR 2.0 Analyze the reasons for and results of U.S. diplomatic, economic, and military initiatives in North America and overseas.
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Overview
• War aims• Preserve freedom and democracy
• Fight fascism and militarism
• Reinforced by discovery of atrocities and Holocaust
• Reasons for Victory• Allied cooperation
• Technological and scientific advances
• Military strategy
• U.S. emerges as global leader
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The Battlefronts
• Fighting Germany• Defeat Hitler First
• Defense at Sea, Attacks by Air
• From North Africa to Italy
• From D-Day to Victory in Europe
• German surrender
• Discovery of the Holocaust
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The Battlefronts
• Fighting Japan• Early Japanese victories in the
Pacific
• Turning Point, 1942
• Island-Hopping
• Atomic Bombs
• Manhattan Project
• Decision to Use Bomb
• Saving American lives
• Force an end to the war
• Forestall Soviet intervention
• Bombing of Japan
• Japan Surrenders
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Wartime Conferences
• Big Three
• Casablanca (Jan. ‘43)• Call for “unconditional surrender”
• Moscow (Oct. ‘43)• USSR to enter war against Japan
after fall of Germany
• Yalta (Feb. ’45)• Partition of Germany
• Soviet satellite states
• Potsdam (Jul. ‘45)• Atomic bomb decision
• Call for Nuremberg Trials
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The War’s Legacy
• Costs• 50 million deaths—military and
civilian
• Asia and Europe ravaged by war
• U.S.: 15 million soldiers; 300,000 KIA and 800,00 WIA
• U.S. emerges as leading world power
• United Nations• Pledged principles of Atlantic Charter
• Peace-keeping organization