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maxush-EndofWar
maxush-End of the War
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Dirt walls covered in shrubbery, used by the Germans, prevented a breakout from Normandy, bombing and innovation lead to a breakout, Paris is retaken Aug. ‘44 | hedgerow |
| Dec ’44 Last major offensive of the war, attempt by Nazis to break through Allied lines at weakest point in Belgium, creates a bulge does not break | Battle of the Bulge |
| Allied leaders meet to plan the end of the war Feb. 1945 | Yalta |
| Hitler commits suicide | April 30, 1945 |
| May 8, 1945 Germans surrender war ends in Europe | V-E Day |
| FDR dies of a cerebral hemorrhage | April 12, 1945 |
| Succeeds FDR as president, “felt like the moon, the stars, and all the planets had fallen on me” | Harry S. Truman |
| Island 600 miles from Japan, Feb. ’45 marines invade, to be used as a base to refuel planes returning from raids on Japan | Iwo Jima |
| Commander of the B-29’s in Mariana Islands orders the firebombing of Japanese cities | Gen. Curtis LeMay |
| Jellied gasoline used to start fires to destroy infrastructure and destroy morale, use was very controversial | napalm |
| 80,00 people killed, 250,000 buildings destroyed firebombing | Tokyo |
| Island 400 miles from Japan, invaded April ’45, to be used as a base to launch an invasion of Japan | Okinawa |
| Wrote a letter to FDR explaining the possibility of developing very powerful bombs by splitting atoms | Albert Einstein |
| Project to build the atomic bomb, directed by J. Robert Oppenheimer and Gen. Leslie Groves | Manhattan Project |
| July 16, 1945 first atomic bomb detonated | Alamagordo, NM |
| Statement issued telling Japan to surrender or face utter destruction | Potsdam Ultimatum |
| 1) demonstration of the bomb, what if it failed 2) negotiate, allies had already agreed not accept any conditions of surrender 3) continue the war, very costly approx. 1 million additional soldiers, casualty rate as high as 60% were being projected | Bomb options |
| First atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima | Aug. 6, 1945 |
| Soviets declare war on Japan, second atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki | Aug. 9, 1945 |
| Aug. 15, 1945 Japanese emperor orders surrender, treaty to end war was signed Sept. 2, 1945 | V-J Day |
| World peace organization created at the end of World War Two | United Nations |
| constitution of the United Nations | Charter |
| All member nations have one vote | General Assembly |
| Had 11 members (15 today) US, GB, FR, USSR, China are permanent members have veto power | Security council |
| Created to punish German and Japanese leaders for war crimes | International Military Tribunals |
| German leaders trial held, 22 prosecuted, 12 sentenced to death, 7 prison terms, 3 acquitted | Nuremberg IMT |
| 25 Japanese leaders charged, 18 to prison, 7 sentenced to death | Tokyo IMT |
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