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- CLASS SET -. V-E Day, May 8, 1945. V-J Day, September 2, 1945. Soviet soldier raising flag on Berlin’s Reichstag building. Mushroom cloud from atomic bombing of Nagasaki. Alfred Eisenstaedt’s V-J day in Times Square. Mussolini’s body (second from left). - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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- CLASS SET -V-E Day, May 8, 1945 V-J Day, September 2, 1945
° August 1942- February 1943- Battle of Stalingrad Soviet victory over Nazis Losses: Soviets- over 1 million men Nazis- 240,000 men
° May 1943- Nazi General Erwin Rommel’s Afrika Korps were defeated
° June 6, 1944- D-Day Allies’ successful invasion of occupied France Extremely heavy casualties Led to liberation of France, Belgium, Luxemburg
° April 1945- Germans retreat from northern Italy April 29- Mussolini shot and hanged for trying to escape
° April 1945- Allies surrounded Berlin Hitler and his mistress commit suicide in bunker
° May 8, 1945- Unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany signed in Berlin
° August 1939- Scientist Albert Einstein warned FDR that the Axis Powers may be developing an atomic weapon
° Fall 1944- Kamikazes (Japanese suicide pilots) were the only thing standing between the Allies and Japan
° March 1945- American Marines captured Iwo Jima
° April 12, 1945- FDR died; Harry S. Truman the new president (had to make decision about the American atomic bomb)
° August 6, 1945- Atomic bomb dropped on Japanese city of Hiroshima Around 73,000 people are killed
° August 9, 1945- Atomic bomb dropped on Japanese city of Nagasaki Around 37,500 people were killed
° September 2, 1945- Japanese officially surrendered to American General Douglas MacArthur
Mussolini’s body (second from left)
Soviet soldier raising flag on Berlin’s Reichstag building
Mushroom cloud from atomic bombing of Nagasaki
Alfred Eisenstaedt’s V-J day in Times Square
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