Battle of the Philippines:
- General MacArthur
VE Day
- May 8th 1945-Berlin
- Surrender of Germany
- Ended the war in Europe
- Hitler had committed suicide so someone else had to surrender.
War production Board
- People made things faster
- More production
- people who made clothes made parachutes
- people who made cars made tanks.
Manhattan project
- Oppenheimer and Groves
- Alamogordo, New Mexico is where they tested the bomb.
- bomb was dropped from a tower
- U235- very powerful bomb.
- No airplane strong enough to carry it
- Enola Gay- the plane that carried the bomb
- Largest bomb in history
- August 1945
Nagasaki
- Bombs were dropped couple days of eachother
- Fat man- plutonium
- wasn't on the top of the list
- low on gas.
VJ Day
- Day that Japan surrendered
- Ended WWII
- August 14 or 15 1945
Yalta-
- 8 day confrence
- talking about how they were get Hitler to surrender
- future for the other countries
- they were going to split Austria and Germany n 4 parts and they would control their parts
- United Nations was set up
- Stalin Promised free elections
Potsdam
- Stalin, Churchhill, Truman,
- July 1945
- Focused on how to punish Germany and how to make sure it didn't happen again
- Germany would have to be more democratic
- Nazi had to be disbanded
- Monopoly to free market
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