World War II:Dropping the Bomb andVictory!

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Yalta Conference- February, 1945

The Big Three:British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin met at Yalta and confirm a plan to divide both Germany and the city of Berlin into American, British, French, and Russian zones.

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Mussolini andhis mistress,

Claretta Petacci were shot and

hanged in Milan, 1945

The End of the War in Europe

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Hitler moved into an underground bunker in Berlin as the Allies advanced.

April 30, Hitler committed suicide.

May 7, 1945, German commanders surrendered, and the war in Europe was over.

The End of the War in Europe

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/adolf-hitler-commits-suicide

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Victory in Europe Day May 8, 1945

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The Manhattan Project -conducted by the United States during World War II to develop the first atomic bomb.

President Truman decided to drop atomic bombs on Japanese cities.

The goal was to avoid an invasion of Japan and save American lives.

War in Asia Continued

First Fission Bomb Test This test was conducted on an island. After the bomb went off, the entire island was gone.

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The first bomb was dropped on the city of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945

The Japanese did not surrender

The second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki August 9, 1945

The Bomb is Dropped

Enola Gay: B-29 Superfortress bomber.

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Hiroshima and Nagasaki were completely destroyed. Thousands died immediately, and thousands more died later of radiation sickness. The Japanese surrendered on August 14.

Effects of the Atomic Bomb

A person who sat on the step evaporated, only leaving the shadow.

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Nagasaki before and after

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The Hiroshima landscape after the use of the atomic bomb

Enola Gay ay Udvar-Hazy

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Victory over Japan Day-August 1945

August 15 in Japan and August 14 in the United States-because of time zone differences

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Surrender of Japan, Tokyo Bay, 2 September 1945: Japanese representatives on board USS Missouri during

the surrender ceremonies.

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Division of Germany

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Divided Berlin

Berlin was divided into four zones, each occupied by one of the Allies: France, Great Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union.

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Berlin Airlift

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Country Borders 1939 - Pre War

Germany Invades Poland in 1939

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Germany Invades France in 1940

1944 the Normandy Invasion

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Post War European Borders

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Victory in Europe Day May 8, 1945

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Victory in Europe Day (V-E Day or VE Day) was on May 8, 1945, the date when the World War II Allies formally accepted the unconditional surrender of the armed forces of Nazi Germany and the end of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich. On April 30, Hitler committed suicide during the Battle of Berlin, and so the surrender of Germany was authorized by his replacement, President of Germany Karl Dönitz. The administration headed up by Dönitz was known as the Flensburg government. The act of military surrender was signed on May 7 in Reims, France, and May 8 in Berlin, Germany.

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North Africa Invasion: November 1942

Invasion of Italy: September 1943

Normandy Invasion: June 6, 1944

Battle of the Bulge: Dec 1944- Jan 1945

Okinawa: April 1945 and Saipan: June 1945

Atomic Bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki August 1945

Turning Points in the War

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