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Final Days of WWII. Do Now Monday 5/13/13. Have Viewing Guide out & ready to hand in PUT YOUR NAME ON IT! Do you think the mission to save Private Ryan was justified? On what basis can those kinds of questions be answered?. The Big Three.
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Do Now Monday 5/13/13 • Have Viewing Guide out & ready to hand in • PUT YOUR NAME ON IT! • Do you think the mission to save Private Ryan was justified? • On what basis can those kinds of questions be answered?
The Big Three • Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin • Yalta Conference February 4, 1945 • “Neutral zone” • Each had an agenda: • Roosevelt Soviet support against Japan • Churchill Free elections for Soviet-liberated nations in Eastern Europe • Stalin Soviet sphere of influence in Eastern Europe to protect against future threats • Germany: divided into 3 sections (one for each of the Allies) • Berlin divided into 3 sections • APRIL 12, 1945 – Harry S. Truman becomes President
Final Days of WWII • April 28, 1945 Mussolini hanged • April 30, 1945 Hitler commits suicide in bunker • May 1, 1945 German forces in Italy surrender • May 2, 1945 Germans surrender to Soviets (Battle of Berlin) • Victory in Europe (VE DAY) • May 8, 1945 (Western Europe & America) • May 9, 1945 (Eastern Europe & Soviet Union) • Potsdam Agreement: August 2, 1945 • Allied leaders plan post war German government
Hiroshima & Nagasaki • August 6, 1945 Hiroshima • Flattened four square miles • instantly killed AT LEAST 70,000 people • August 9, 1945 Nagasaki • August 10: Emperor Hirohito intervened and forced govt. to surrender • September 2, 1945 formal peace treaty signed on the Missouri anchored in Tokyo Bay • VJ DAY
Exit Ticket • Why will the Yalta Conference, along with the decisions made and agreed to, not be successful?