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VE Day VJ Day

VE Day VJ Day. The conclusion of WWII and Victory in Europe and Japan. The Situation after Russian Victory. The Russian had regained much of the territory it lost during OPERATION BARBAROSSA.

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VE Day VJ Day

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  1. VE DayVJ Day The conclusion of WWII and Victory in Europe and Japan

  2. The Situation after Russian Victory • The Russian had regained much of the territory it lost during OPERATION BARBAROSSA. • The German army had surrendered in 1943 in Russia and the remaining Nazi army was either shot or sent to Russian POW camps or GULAGS. (RUSSIA LOST 2o MILLION PEOPLE during WWII) • The Soviet Union was now part of the Allies and this fact would force the Germans to fight a war on two fronts.

  3. The Dieppe Raid (Operation Jubilee) August 19th 1942

  4. Hitler and the Nazi’s are extremely successful by 1942 and control most of Europe. WWII rages in Russia, as Stalin and his armies attempt to resist Nazi control. Russia is losing however as the German army pushes towards Russia’s Caucus oil fields. France has been taken by the Nazi’s and it is heavily reinforced to avoid capture by the Allies. The Canadian soldiers were in Britain completing training and waiting to be utilized for 2 years before the Dieppe raid began. The Allies wanted to test out their equipment, the Canadian soldiers, and an amphibious assault on a German held beach. DIEPPE: The Scene is Set

  5. German Occupied Europe 1941/1942

  6. Waters, Beaches, and Cliff formations of Dieppe

  7. French Port of Dieppe: The Plan • The allies wanted to use Dieppe as a trial run for D-day • A smaller raid would give them opportunity to test out new techniques and equipment, and would also serve as a reconnaisance mission for a future invasion. • Canadian troops had seen little action but were chosen as the main force of attack in an experimental raid on the Dieppe port. • 4 pre dawn attacks were to take place followed by one main attack on the town of Dieppe half an hour alter. • Air cover and tanks and armored cars on land would support the troops. • The plan was to take the city of Dieppe.

  8. A Turn Towards the Worst • On the morning of August 19, 1942, one of the ships carring Canadian soldiers to Dieppe unexpectedly met a small German convoy. • The two sides engaged in a brief sea battle, but the noise from the battle alerted the Germans on shore. • To add to this, the Canadians were to leave the ships and reach land before dawn while they were under the cover of darkness, but their ships were delayed. • The men leapt ashore in broad daylight and were easily machine gunned by the waiting German soldiers. • Communication between ships and land troops was poor and commanders sent more reinforcements ashore-only to also be mowed down. • Allied tanks couldn’t get enough traction on the pebbled beach and were left immobile.

  9. -IN ALL 907 CANADIANS WERE KILLED IN 9 HOURS, IN ONE SINGLE MORNING. THIS IS MORE THAN ANY OTHER DAY IN ALL OF WORLD WAR TWO -ANOTHER 2000 SOLDIERS WERE TAKEN PRISONER. THIS IS 90% OF THE TOTAL LEFT ALIVE. THESE MEN WOULD BE IN POW CAMPS FOR 2 YEARS. The Massacre Continued…

  10. The Invasion of Italy • British Prime Minister Winston Churchill felt that the best way to recapture Europe would be through Italy. • On July 10, 1943 Canadian soldiers participated in the Allies invasion of Sicily. • After two weeks of fierce fighting, the Allies were successful in capturing Sicily. • The conditions in Italy were very much like WWI, with its rugged terrain, muddy conditions and cold rainy weather. • Canadians lost 1372 soldiers. • The Allies eventually captured Rome in 1944 despite ruthless German and Italian troops.

  11. D-Day and Liberation • D-Day was the biggest allied invasion of the War • On June 6, 1944 the Allies launched OPERATION OVERLORD: A full scale invasion of Europe through the beaches of Normandy, France. • There would be 5 landing points along an eighty-kilometer stretch of beach in Normandy in northern France. • These beaches were code-named Sword, Juno, Gold, Omaha, and Utah. • Attacks by land were followed by attacks by air. • JUNO BEACH WAS THE CANADIAN ATTACK AREA: The Canadians had to make their way past the concret barriers and through bared wire and other obstacles, inland. • This attack was kept secret from the Germans. This was a crucial reason for the Allied success. • As a result of the surprise, German defense was poorly coordinated.

  12. Allies Push Inland • After weeks of constant fighting, the Allies pushed their way through France, and Belgium, toward Germany. • Canadians marched confidently into the streets of Dieppe in September, where they had just recently suffered a terrible defeat. • In March, 1945, Allied forces attacked Germany. • CANADIANS WERE ALSO IN CHARGE OF THE LIBERATON OF THE NETHERLANDS • Many Dutch residents had been starving to death under Nazi occupation and had had their lands burned and flooded to avoid allied advance to the area. • In early April the attacks began and the progress was slow, and defeats were house by house. • By May 4th, 1945, the Axis troops surrendered and food parcels were dropped by air to the starving citizens of the Netherlands.

  13. VICTORY IN EUROPE • While the Allies invaded Germany from the west, the Soviet Union invaded from the east. • Facing certain defeat at this point, Germany surrendered on May 7, 1945. • Hitler, together with his new wife, Eva Braun, committed suicide in a bunker rather than submit to the Allies. • The Allied Liberators would spend up to a year liberating concentration camps. • 6 Million Jewish citizens were murdered in these concentration and death camps during the Holocaust

  14. Japan Surrenders • After the Japanese attack on Pearl Habour, the Americans had declared war on Japan. • The Japanese indicated that they would not surrender and would fight till the last man. • In response, the U.S government decided to use the atomic bomb-a complex new weapon that was equal in power to over 20,000 tonnes of TNT. • On August 6, 1945, A U.S bomber, nicknamed the ENOLA GAY after a pilots mother, dropped an atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. • The destruction this bomb caused had never been seen before and killed some 70,000 Japanese residents in Hiroshima. • Japan still refused to surrender at the promts of the United States. • The U.S drops a second atomic bomb on Nagasaki, three days later, killing 40,000 people. • The Japanese, who did not believe that the Americans had more than one bomb, surrender, for fear of more atomic bombing. The Japanese surrender.

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