Unit 5: WWII and the Cold War

“End of WWII”

I. Major Battles

a. Axis Powers

i. Italy, Germany, ______

b. Allied Powers

i. Britain, France, eventually the U.S.

c. France falls to Nazi Germany in 1940

d. D-day

i. June 1944

ii. Largest ______attack in U.S. history

1. 156,000 U.S., British, Canadian troops storm French beach

iii. Liberate France

iv. Beginning of the end for ______

e. Hitler committed suicide on April 30, 1945

i. Stalin's forces surround Germany

ii. Germany surrenders

f. Japan still in the war

II. Battles in the Pacific

a. After Pearl Harbor, U.S. focused on Japan

b. ______hopping

i. The U.S. Pacific Fleet would hop from island to island to get closer to Japan

c. Battle of Midway

i. Six months after Pearl Harbor (1942)

ii. U.S. navy destroys Japanese ______

iii. Turning point

d. Battle of Iwo Jima (1945)

i. ______invade island

ii. ______battle

iii. U.S. wins major victory

III. Manhattan Project

a. 6 months after war in Europe ended, U.S. still involved in WWII

b. Japan refused to surrender

c. ______American ______to build ______weapons

d. Oppenheimer detonated first atomic bomb in ______(July 1945)

IV. Harry S. Truman

a. 33rd POTUS

i. Took office after FDR's ______

b. Democrat

c. Decided to drop first atomic bomb on two Japanese cities

d. Founder of the ______

i. ______organization

e. ______the military

V. Dropping the Bombs

a. Invasion of Japan would cost hundreds of thousands of American lives

b. End the war ______

c. August 6, 1945

i. Enola Gay drops bomb "little boy" on ______

ii. Industrial city

iii. Kills 80,000-120,000 instantly

d. August 9, 1945

i. "Fat man" dropped on ______

ii. Kills 35,000-75,000

e. V-J Day

i. Japan ______on August 15, 1945

VI. Effects of WWII

a. Many dictators removed from power

i. ______regime defeated

ii. Mussolini killed

b. Soviet Union = ______until 1989

i. ______

c. Many countries in ruin from bombings

d. Nuremberg Trials

i. Many Nazi's found guilty for ______

e. United Nations is formed

f. New ______

i. U.S. and Soviet Union

VII. Yalta Conference

a. 1945

b. Meeting of the Big 3

i. FDR

ii. Stalin (U.S.S.R)

iii. Winston Churchill (Britain)

c. Made plans for the post-war world

d. Agreed to divide ______and ______into 4 zones

e. Tensions arose between Stalin and Allies when discussing ______European nations

f. Stalin agreed to let free ______happen

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