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Final Days of WWII

Final Days of WWII. Do Now Monday 5/13/13. Have Viewing Guide out & ready to hand in PUT YOUR NAME ON IT! Do you think the mission to save Private Ryan was justified? On what basis can those kinds of questions be answered?. The Big Three.

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Final Days of WWII

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  1. Final Days of WWII

  2. Do Now Monday 5/13/13 • Have Viewing Guide out & ready to hand in • PUT YOUR NAME ON IT! • Do you think the mission to save Private Ryan was justified? • On what basis can those kinds of questions be answered?

  3. The Big Three • Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin • Yalta Conference  February 4, 1945 • “Neutral zone” • Each had an agenda: • Roosevelt Soviet support against Japan • Churchill Free elections for Soviet-liberated nations in Eastern Europe • Stalin Soviet sphere of influence in Eastern Europe to protect against future threats • Germany: divided into 3 sections (one for each of the Allies) • Berlin divided into 3 sections • APRIL 12, 1945 – Harry S. Truman becomes President

  4. Final Days of WWII • April 28, 1945  Mussolini hanged • April 30, 1945  Hitler commits suicide in bunker • May 1, 1945  German forces in Italy surrender • May 2, 1945  Germans surrender to Soviets (Battle of Berlin) • Victory in Europe (VE DAY) • May 8, 1945 (Western Europe & America) • May 9, 1945 (Eastern Europe & Soviet Union) • Potsdam Agreement: August 2, 1945 • Allied leaders plan post war German government

  5. Hiroshima & Nagasaki • August 6, 1945  Hiroshima • Flattened four square miles • instantly killed AT LEAST 70,000 people • August 9, 1945  Nagasaki • August 10: Emperor Hirohito intervened and forced govt. to surrender • September 2, 1945  formal peace treaty signed on the Missouri anchored in Tokyo Bay • VJ DAY

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  7. Exit Ticket • Why will the Yalta Conference, along with the decisions made and agreed to, not be successful?

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