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World War II Facts

Total War? - military and civilian By the numbers: - 100 million involved - Axis lost: 6,582,000 military and 1,686,000 civilian - Allies lost: 14,276,800 military and 25,686,900 civilian (Russia lost over 10 million military and 10 million civilian) (USA lost 400,000 military)

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World War II Facts

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  1. Total War? - military and civilian By the numbers: - 100 million involved - Axis lost: 6,582,000 military and 1,686,000 civilian - Allies lost: 14,276,800 military and 25,686,900 civilian (Russia lost over 10 million military and 10 million civilian) (USA lost 400,000 military) Cost? - $1 Trillion (1944 currency) Worldwide -$288 Billion for US World War II Facts

  2. D-Day, VE-Day, Manhattan Project D-Day: June 6, 1944 (Operation Overlord) - Dwight D. Eisenhower directed - Estimated or expected casualties around 9,000 on the initial wave of over 125,000 (number not completely well known) -Sept. 1944 France freed from Nazi occupation V-E Day: May 8, 1945 Manhattan Project: (J. Robert Oppenheimer) - July 16, 1945 first test (no turning back now) Alamogordo, NM. - www.youtube.com - Aug. 6, 1945 “Little Boy” released on Hiroshima - Aug. 9, 1945 “Fat Man” released on Nagasaki

  3. Monday 2/25/13On a sheet of notebook paper please answer the following questions in complete sentences. Please do your own work!! • Explain the reasons why the United States did not join the War at the onset of Germany’s advancements. • Explain the reasons for the United States entry into the war and why we went to Europe first? • In your own words why did WWII happen? Please give facts behind your opinion. • What role did media and radio influence the home front during WWII?

  4. V-J Day Sept. 2, 1945 - Japan’s unconditional surrender. - USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay. www.youtube.com MacArthur

  5. Yalta Conference Feb. 1945Potsdam Conference July 1945 Yalta Conference: Who was at the party? - Stalin (USSR) - Churchill (Great Britain) - Roosevelt (USA) Sticking Points: - Poland - Germany (how to divide and does France get a say?) - Eastern Europe - United Nations (until Security Council was re-written) Potsdam Conference:

  6. Potsdam Conference • April 1945 Roosevelt dies • Clement Attlee replaces Churchill for GB • Truman, Attlee and Stalin meet • Stalin wanted Germany to pay. Russia had lost 31,000 factories and 20 million people • By July, the Red Army effectively controlled the Baltic States, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria and Romania, and establishing Communism in Poland

  7. Fear of Communism grew • Divided Germany into zones of occupation.

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