4/28/10

D-day invasion

When we went to invade normady. we sent out 16 tanks but only two landed.

U.S. 120,00 people died

enemy 113,000 people died

Why the allies won :

magic- breaking the japanese code

we had more natural resources to fuel planes and ironn

major battles

battle of coral sea

battle of midway- turning point of war

iwo jima

35 day battle

first attack on japanese land

battle of okinawa

250,000 died

hiroshima and nagaasaki

japan wouldnt surrender so we dropped bombs and those that didnt die got radiation sickness

gave billions of dollars to japan to help rebuild so they wouldnt become communists.

battle of atlantic

germany sank north american ships

turning point was when north american ships started using sonar so they would know whhen ships were coming.

we wanted the german troops to go to colee because it was the closest point to GB and france. so we could get in there.

list of why we won the war:

we had a mass production of weapons

more technology

more natural resources

women did a lot of factory jobs to keep the U.S. going while the men were at the war.

more people.

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