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Feb 12
HW: WWII Test on
Friday. Notebooks Due
Friday Pgs. 1A – 11A
Notes Title: End of WWII
Headings,
key words,
vocabulary
Notes, charts, drawings,
lists, graphic organizers,
definitions, etc
Questions:
Answers!
Turn your outlines in to
the Turn In Box
Please set up a new
pieces of paper like this:
Summary: Top 5 pieces of Info for this
page of notes
European Theater of Operations
Allies from
the South,
having taken
North Africa.
Allies from
the East,
having won in
Russia
Allies from
the West,
jumping off
from Britain
Germany is
Surrounded!
Gen. Eisenhower Gives the Orders
for D-Day [“Operation Overlord”]
D-Day (June 6, 1944)
Normandy Landing
(June 6, 1944)
German Prisoners
Higgins Landing Crafts
Why did the Allies take so long
to take back France? Explain
with at least 2 factors.
The Liberation of Paris:
August 25, 1944
De Gaulle in
Triumph!
U. S. Troops in Paris, 1944
Yalta: February, 1945
 FDR wants quick Soviet entry into Pacific
war.
 FDR & Churchill concede Stalin needs
buffer, FDR & Stalin want spheres of
influence and a weak Germany.
 Churchill wants
strong Germany
as buffer
against Stalin.
 FDR argues
for a ‘United
Nations’.
The Battle of the Bulge:
Hitler’s Last Offensive
Dec. 16, 1944
to
Jan. 28, 1945
Why does Hitler Have to win
the Battle of the Bulge to
keep fighting?
US & Russian Soldiers Meet at
the Elbe River: April 25, 1945
Col. Paul Tibbets & the A-Bomb
Why does this
man look so
cheerful?
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.
V-J Day (September 2, 1945)
•Japan surrenders
•MacArthur and others help write the new Japanese
Constitution
•US forces the Emperor of Japan to tell his people he is not a
God and not descended of the Gods. Japan is on its own.
No “Divine Wind” will save her.
What psychological effect are the Americans trying to have
on the Japanese people by making them surrender this
way? Why?
WW II
Casualties
: Europe
Each symbol
indicates 100,000
dead in the
appropriate
theater of
operations
WW II
Casualties
: Asia
Each symbol
indicates
100,000 dead in
the appropriate
theater of
operations
Financial Cost of WWII
• U.S.
• Germany
• France
U.S.S.R.
• Briatain
• Japan
$288,000,000,000
$212,336,000,000
$111,272,000,000
$93,012,000,000
$49,786,000,000
$41,272,000,000
• Direct economic costs of WWII
$1,600,000,000,000
Who paid the Highest Cost for
WWII?
Massive Human
Dislocations
The U.S. & the U.S.S.R.
Emerged as the Two Superpowers
of the later 20c
The Bi-Polarization of Europe:
The Beginning of the Cold War
Allied with USA
Allied with USSR
Other countries
The Division of Germany:
1945 - 1990
The Creation of the U. N.
The United Nations is
Created to do Three
Things:
•Peacefully solve problems
between countries
•End Colonialism and
make new countries out of
old colonies
•Put war leaders on trial for
atrocities
The Nuremberg War Trials:
Crimes Against Humanity
Nazis are put on
trial for the new
crime of “Crimes
against Humanity”
All but one Nazi
leader swear they
were in the right
until the bitter end.
Japanese War Crimes Trials
General
Hideki
Tojo
Japanese military is also put on trial in Tokyo. Very few
Japanese military leaders are convicted, though ample
evidence of atrocities in Burma, Philippines and China are
documented and presented.
Japanese later deny all these claims and remove them from
their history books.
The De-Colonization of
European Empires
The Emergence of Third
World Nationalist Movements
Why would the world need the
United Nations to play referee
and handle international
disputes and trials?
Early Computer Technology
Came Out of WW II
Colossus, 1941
Mark I, 1944
Admiral Grace Hooper,
1944-1992
COBOL language
Hitler’s “Secret Weapons”:
Too Little, Too Late!
V-1 Rocket:
“Buzz Bomb”
V-2 Rocket
Jet engines were developed by the
Germans at the end of WWII.
These are the very engines we use in
planes today!
They also allowed us to explore
space later during the Space Race
and beyond.
Werner von
Braun
WWII Test Review BINGO!
• Sign your own name on the free space.
• Get other people who can answer the review
questions to sign the box of the question they can
answer (Signers: you will be called on to give the
answer, so be ready)
• Make sure you can read the name so you can call on
them later.
• Sign other people’s cards.
• You may only have each person sign their name once.
• Try to get BINGO (5 in a row)
• Totally stuck? Books and notes are allowed for this
activity.
Test Short Answer Topics:
• Civilian Experience in WWII- Cite
specific incidents
• Significant Battles of WWII- Why are
they important
• Ultimate Cost of the War
• Compare WWI and WWII