Battle of Midway
Japanese codes were deciphered at pearl harbor and its name was magic and it was a p;an to attack midway.
the us loss 34o men and 145 aircraft. the USS Yorktown and the destroyer USS hammann
The Japanese lost 3,057 people all of their carriers and a heavy cruiser and 228 aircraft,
it is a turning point on the war in the pacific and after this they became very defensive.
Yalta conferance
February 1945-churchill FDR Stalin-the big 3
Germany would be broken up into 4 occupation zones US, GB, France, USSR.
Stalin promised to join the war against japan after the war with Germany was over.
Stalin promised free elections in eastern europe
have a conference in San Francisco to set up the united nations.
Potsdam conferance
temporarily divided Vietnam at the 17th parallel
japan would surrender to great Brittan in the south china in the north.
Goals for germany
Goals of the occupation of Germany, demilitarization, denazification, democratization.
Division of Germany and Austria into four occupation zones
persecution of Nazis as war criminals.
reverse all German annexations.
reduce Germany in size by 25 percent compared to its 1937 borders.
removal of the German populations remaining beyond the new eastern borders o germany
agreement on war reparations to the soviet union.
destruction/take control of German industries that made war materials.
Poland was recognized as being a communistic controlled government.
the Potsdam declaration: this ultimatum stated that if japan did not surrender, it would face prompt and utter destruction.
three days after the Potsdam conference a bomb was dropped on Hiroshima.
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