1942 Continued

1942 Continued...

UNTIL JAPANESE SETBACKS…

JAPAN DOMINATED SE ASIA AND THE WESTERN PACIFIC

CORAL SEA MIDWAY GUADALCANAL

1942 Continued.. TURNING POINT IN THE WARSOVIETS ON THE OFFENSIVE

Battle of Stalingrad 1942-43 Soviet Victory

90,000 German POW’sOnly 5,000 survive

HITLER ABANDONS MOSCOW TOCAPTURE CAUCASUS OIL FIELDS

NEAR STALINGRAD

LENINGRAD STILL UNDER SIEGE

1943GERMAN RETREAT

FROM USSR

ALLIES INVADE THE SOFTUNDERBELLY OF EUROPE

Mussolini ArrestedDue to Italian losses

ITALY AND GERMANYDEFEATED IN N. AFRICA

ALLIES INVADE SICILY

Italy SurrendersTo AlliesMussolini Rescued by Germans

Sets up German Puppet State in N. Italy

ITALY DECLARES WAR ON GERMANY

1943 Continued...

Germans FiercelyResistant

HAMBURG, GERMANY FIREBOMBED60,000 SUFFOCATED

OR BAKED ALIVE

1944US ISLAND HOPPING IN THE PACIFIC

MARIANAS Japanese Military

and Civilian Suicides

PHILIPPINE SEA “Turkey Shoot”TOJO Resigns

MacArthur: Philippines“I HAVE RETURNED”

Securing bases for strategic bombing

JAPANESE KAMIKAZI

HIS TARGET

1944 Continued... D-DAY JUNE 6OPERATION OVERLORD

1944 Continued...

GERMANY RETREATS FROM ITALY

LIBERATION OF PARIS

LAST GERMAN COUNTER-OFFENSIVE

IN BELGIUM

1944 Continued...SOVIETS LIBERATE EXTERMINATION CAMPS IN POLAND

1945 YALTA CONFERENCE AGREEMENTS

Churchill FDR Stalin

Soviets 30 miles from Berlin: agree to free electionsin liberated countries

Soviets get ½ Poland ½ E. Prussia

Four occupation zones in Germany and Berlin

Disarm GermansPunish War Criminals

1945 Continued...U.S. TAKES IWO JIMA 660 MILES FROM TOKYO

US BOMBS TOKYOWITH NAPALM

AND INCENDIARIES

1945 Continued...GERMAN FORCES IN ITALY SURRENDER

MUSSOLINI CAPTURED

SHOT

WITH HIS MISTRESS HUNG BEATEN

1945 Continued... US FORCES ADVANCEINTO GERMANY

ALLIES LIBERATE CONCENTRATION CAMPS IN GERMANY

US AND SOVIET FORCES MEET IN GERMANY

1945 Continued...

Harry Truman Sworn In

Truman learns of Manhattan Project

1945 Continued...

HITLER AND EVA BRAUN - SUICIDE

HITLER’S BUNKER

CHURCHILL SITS IN CHAIRFROM HITLER’S BUNKER GOEBBELS

1945 Continued...

GERMANY SURRENDERS SURRENDERED GERMAN TROOPS

NEW YORK

LONDON

2 MILLION GERMAN GIRLS AND WOMEN WERE RAPED

BY THE RED ARMY

VE DAY!!

1945 Continued...OKINOWA FALLS

PHILIPPINES RECAPTURED

350 MILES FROM JAPANBASE FOR AIR OPERATIONS

ON PLANNED INVASION

LAST AMPHIBIAN OPERATIONHIGH CASUALTIES, COMBAT FATIGUE

1945 Continued...

Atlee, Truman, Stalin

POTSDAM CONFERENCE

Joint Ultimatum Issued:“Unconditional Surrender”

Or “prompt and utter destruction”

DETERMINE PUNISHMENT FOR GERMANY

END THE WAR IN THE PACIFIC

AUGUST 6TH HIROSHIMA

100,000 DIE INSTANTLY60% OF CITY GONE

FAT MAN

AUGUST 9TH NAGASAKI

SOVIETS INVADE MANCHURIA

35,000 DEAD

VJ DAY!!

JAPAN SURRENDERS

AUGUST 14TH

1945 Continued...

PHYSICAL AND IDEALOGICAL BOUNDARY BETWEEN COMMUNIST AND CAPITALIST STATES

WORLD WAR II ENDSCOLD WAR BEGINS

THE IRON CURTAIN

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