Toward Victory
Chapter 24 Section 4
Key Terms
• Define: island hopping, kamikaze, genocide, war
crimes
Victory in Europe
• Italy Surrenders
*Americans and British take control of Sicily
*Mussolini was dismissed from office and Italy
surrenders
• D-Day
*American, British, and Canadian troops cross the
English Channel, landing in Normandy, France
*Millions of troops stormed the shore
*Allies entered Paris and freed them from Nazi rule
Victory in Europe
• Battle of the Bulge
* America wins when Germany runs out of supplies
• Germany Invaded
*Allies invade Germany
*FDR died and VP Harry S Truman took over
• Victory in Europe
*German armies begin to surrender
*V-E Day
Victory in the Pacific
• Island Hopping
*Allies try to defeat islands in Pacific hopping
from one to another
• Japan Holds Firm
*Last stops on island hopping: Iwo Jima and
Okinawa- many Americans die here
*Japanese unleash Kamikaze missions
The Atomic Bomb
• Truman decides to use the atomic
bomb
• August 6, 1945, US drops atomic
bomb on Hiroshima- Japan refuses to
surrender
• August 9, 1945, atomic bomb dropped
on Nagasaki
• August 14, 1945- Japan surrenders (V-J Day)
• WWII over
The Holocaust
• Only after WWII did the world learn of the
horrors in Nazi Germany
• Hitler was determined to annihilate the Jews
• 6 million Jews were murdered during the
Holocaust (genocide)
• Nazis also murdered Poles, Slavs, Gypsies, and
people with disabilities
Holocaust Death Camps
• 6 Death Camps in Poland
• Killed in gas chambers or used as parts of medical
experiments
War Crimes Trials
• War Crimes were prosecuted in the German City of
Nuremberg
• 12 were sentenced to death
Nuremberg Trials ppt
Holocaust Denials ppt
WWII ppt
Section handout
Genocide