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European Front Ends V-E Day May 7/8, 1945

European Front Ends V-E Day May 7/8, 1945. Europe Front Ends…. V-E Day May 7/8 1945 Now need to decide what to do with war torn Europe and Nazi Germany Yalta Conference: Stalin, FDR, Churchill Surrender of Nazi Germany (unconditional) Germany demilitarize Poland gets land back

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European Front Ends V-E Day May 7/8, 1945

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  1. European Front Ends V-E Day May 7/8, 1945

  2. Europe Front Ends… • V-E Day May 7/8 1945 • Now need to decide what to do with war torn Europe and Nazi Germany • Yalta Conference: Stalin, FDR, Churchill • Surrender of Nazi Germany (unconditional) • Germany demilitarize • Poland gets land back • Staling aid in fight against Japan • Potsdam Conference: Stalin, Truman, Churchill • Outlined terms of surrender for Japan • Truman wanted open elections for all • nations in Europe, Stalin did not • Tensions grew between Truman and • Stalin = Cold War

  3. War in the Pacific… V-J Day August 14, 1945 • Escalated tension caused by: • December 7, 1941 Pearl Harbor military base bombed by Japan • Potsdam Declaration, issued by Allied leaders on July 26, 1945, called on Japan to surrender. Japan denied • August 6 the American B-29 plane Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima, killing more than 70,000 people and destroying a 5-square-mile expanse of the city.  • Three days later, the United States dropped a second atomic bomb on Nagasaki, killing another 40,000. 

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