WAR IN
EUROPE
Battles to Know on the European Front
-Stalingrad
-D-Day
-Bulge
WAR IN THE
PACIFIC
WAR IN THE PACIFIC
-Philippines
 Bataan
Death March
-Midway
-Guadalcanal
-Iwo Jima/
Okinawa
*Fighting
strategy of
Japanese!!!
War News Broadcast
You will be assigned one of the above mentioned battles.
 In groups of your choosing, you will create a 3-4 minute long news
broadcast of your event.
 You must turn in a script which you can only use as a reference
during your segment
 You may perform your segment in any combination of ways you like –
interview, reenactment, live at the scene, news desk, etc.
 Everyone must participate/have a speaking part
 Information required –
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Brief explanation of what happened
Significance – Why was this battle important? Why do we care?
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Operation Torch (1942-May 1943)
Gen. George C. Marshall
Second front in France?
Stalingrad (Dec 1942/Jan 1943)
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Air War
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incendiary raids
on Hamburg,
Berlin and
Dresden
Invasion of Italy
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Mussolini
DEFEATING
GERMANY
D-Day
Invasion of Normandy
Eisenhower Meets with Paratroopers before DDay
D-DAY LANDING JUNE 6, 1944
After the Normandy Invasion
GUIDING QUESTION
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Why did the United
States decide to use
atomic bombs against
Japan?
(strictly military measure to end the war? or
diplomatic measure designed to intimidate the
Soviet Union in the postwar era?)
American Troops Before Amphibious Landing
Attempting to Secure a Beachhead on Pacific Island
US troops wading ashore Butaritari, November 1943
Sprawled bodies on beach Tarawa
Island-Hopping in the Pacific
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Stalingrad (Dec 1942/Jan 1943)
Allied invasion of France
Normandy - D-Day (June 6, 1944)
Battle of the Bulge (late December 1944)
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Fall of Germany
 Berlin (June 2,
1945)
 Hitler suicide
(April 30)
 Surrender June
7, 1945 (V-E Day)
 Yalta
Conference
DEFEATING
GERMANY
WAR IN THE PACIFIC
 Island
Hopping
 kamikazes
 Iwo Jima
(Feb-March 1945)
 Okinawa
(April – June 1945)
Flag Raising on
Iwo Jima
BEGINNING THE ATOMIC AGE
 FDR death (Warm Springs, GA, April 12, 1945)
 Harry S Truman (President 1945-53)
Churchill, Roosevelt & Stalin at Yalta, Feb. 1945
President Truman addressing
Congress after Roosevelt’s death
BEGINNING THE ATOMIC AGE
Manhattan Project (begun 1942)
 Alamagordo, NM, July 16, 1945
 Potsdam Conference Unconditional surrender or
face ”utter destruction”
 Firebomb Tokyo
 Hiroshima (August 6, 1945)
 Nagasaki (August 9, 1945)
 Japan surrender
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September 2, 1945 (V-J Day)
Col. Paul W.
Tibbets, Jr., & the
ENOLA GAY
Atomic Bombs: “Little Boy” & “Fat Man”
Hiroshima After
the Bomb Blast,
August 6, 1945
Hiroshima After the Bomb Blast, August 6, 1945
Hiroshima after the atomic bomb, August 6, 1945
Nagasaki atomic
bombing
August 9, 1945
Aftermath of Nagasaki bombing
Arguments opposed
Arguments for use
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Japanese refused to surrender. It
was estimated an invasion similar
to D-Day was needed to bring the
war to an end.
US officials estimated conquest of
Japan’s empire would last an
additional 18 months to 2 years.
US officials estimated Allied
casualties at 1/2 to 1 1/2 million, in
addition to huge Japanese losses if
there was an invasion of Japan.
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Japanese leadership was informed
of the destructive power and nature
of the bomb and offered a period to
surrender but declined.
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Bombs were untested and their
destruction unknown
Neither city was a major
military target and the attacks
would mainly kill Japanese
civilians.
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Radiation poisoning, birth
defects and contamination
would have negative effects on
the population.
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Would set a precedent about
using weapons of mass
destruction in war
Surrender ceremonies on the USS Missouri
Japanese Surrender on the USS Missouri Sept 2, 1945
RESULTS OF THE SECOND
WORLD WAR
 300,000 dead, over 800K wounded
 $320 billion cost
 National debt rose from $50 Billion in 1941 to $250
billion by 1945
 End of Depression
 Joined United Nations
 Only major power without significant physical
damage
7 Future American Presidents Views of the World Were
Formed by Service in WWII
WWII Memorial, Washington, DC
Dedicated on April 29, 2004
SOURCES
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Brinkley, American History: A Survey 10e
America: Pathways to the Present (2003)
National Archives and Records Administration
Thomson Wadsworth US History Image Bank http://www.wadsworth.com/history_d/special_features/image_bank_US/1931_1945.html
Teaching Politics, http://teachpol.tcnj.edu/amer_pol_hist/_browse1950.htm
American Journey Online
Divine, America Past and Present Revd 7th Ed.
Nash, The American People 6e; http://wps.ablongman.com/long_nash_ap_6/0,7361,592970,00.html
Faragher, Out of Many 3e http://wps.prenhall.com/hss_faragher_outofmany_ap/
Jones, Created Equal
Kennedy, American Pageant 13e
Susan Pojer, Horace Greeley H.S., Chappaqua, NY
Henretta, America’s History 5e, http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/mapcentral
Roark, American Promise 3e, http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/mapcentral
http://www.printmini.com/printables/mil/index.shtml (camouflage)
Franklin
Roosevelt in
wheelchair
Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill, Tehran, 1943