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The End of World War II
• Hitler’s last counter-strike
• “Nuts”
• German teenagers
• U.S. and Brits crush it
Battle of the Bulge Dec. 1944
Liberation of the camps
Yalta Conference (Feb 1945)
meeting of the “big three”
formationof the U.N.
USSR & Japan
zones ofoccupation
border disputes
Eisenhower and Stalin
Hitler’s proclamation & suicide (4/30/45)
V-E Day 8 May 1945--Germany “ceased to exist”
The Fall of Berlin--May 1945
HamburgDresden
Destruction of Germany
Berlin
Potsdam Conference (July 1945)
• Japan must surrender or face “a rain of ruin from the air”
• reparations
• three D’s for Germany
• USSR invades China
• U.S. island hopping
• goal: unconditional surrender
The Pacific Theater
Occupy
Rebuild--Marshall Plan
New constitutions
Trials for war criminals
military restrictions
effective int’l organization
Lessons Learned from WW II:How to prevent WW III?
Decision to drop the a-bomb
• Arguments FOR
• Arguments AGAINST
“little boy”
Impact of the a-bomb on Hiroshima
More Hiroshima
And More Hiroshima