Invasion of Normady
practiced for the invasion and group of soldiers were killed because german u- boat spotted them
we had to go against the atlantic wall set up bu hitler
we wanted hitler to think we were attaking colee, france but we were really attacking south of there.
dwight D. eisenhower planned and carried out the invasion of normady.
invasion was supposed to be on the 5th but there was high winds and strong seas.
Yalta Confrence- Febuary 1945
big three: FDR,- U.S. Churchill- British prime minister Stalin - soviet union
stalin was the strongest because his empire was rising and churchills was falling, FDr was dying of heart conditiion.
met at Black sea port city of Yalta
stalin broke agreement of handing over the controll of his country
there were no free or fair elections.
germany was to split up in four areas
city of berlin was to be split in four zones
stalin agreed to allow free elections but failed to establish it.
made countries communists.
VE day
Victory in Europe day
may 8, 1945
germany surrendered
Hitler commited suicide april 30th
concentration camps discovered in final months of war
VJ day
victory over japan day
august 15, 1945
potsdam ultimatum was like when we said we have something that can destroy many things and japan just ignored us.
67 cities were fire bombed and two bombs were dropped and a third was thought of. there was only like one city that didnt have any damage to it.
Reasons for surrender
atomic bombs and russia invading manchuria.
there were two bombs little boy and fat man ? the big one was dropped on nagasaki and imploaded i think and the little one exploaded. there were nervous when they took off with the big bomb because it was charged and if we crashed it would blow up.
We help rebuild japan because russia would be there and we didnt want japan to become communist.
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