DDay and Pacific War TTO

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Turning point of the 2nd World War

Previously... Fill in the blanks

Axis power lost their Elite military force in the Battle of ......

Hitler was still short of ..... , which was his original reason to venture south-east

This led to the turning point of the war!!!

Goals for this class

At the end you can explain to me:

- Which 3 attack techniques the Allied Powers use during D-Day to invade Normandy and how that won D-Day

- How the USA was drawn into the 2nd World War

- Give 2 reasons why USA still defeated Japan

D-Day

Allied Powers attack Normandy beach --> perfect location

Parachutings take bunkers

Bombardments

Ships storm the coast

Hitler has to fight 2 fronts now!!! --> Spoiler alert: He loses at May 8th 1945

War in the Pacific

War between Japan and USA

       - Japan is expanding, USA sees this as a                   threat

Why? Recourses and oil

Expansionism: policy where a country expands economically and/or territorially

Pearl Harbor (1941)

Japan attacks USA marine base to continue expanding--> USA declares war

Germany takes sides with Japan in Triparte Act

Cause and effect

1. Japan is in need of resources (oil, iron, etc.)

2. Pearl Harbor was attacked

3. Japan wants to expand even more without resistance

4. Germany and Italy form the Triparte Act with Japan

A. USA is now drawn into the Second World War

B. USA loses 3 ships, 16 ships are heavily damaged and over 2000 people die

C. Japan starts expanding towards China and overseas

D. Japan attacks Pearl Harbor

Japan keeps expanding...

Dutch East Indies taken

--> Rubber (needed for army)

Japanese internment camps

Japan starts losing...

US aircraft carriers 

Bomber aircrafts

Atomic bombs!?

Hiroshima: 6th of August 1945

Nagasaki: 9th of August 1945

Finish this timeline, and put these events in the correct chronological order:

- Operation Barbarossa                                        

- D-Day

- Bombing of Hiroshima

- Capitulation (overgave) of Germany

- Battle of Stalingrad

- Pearl Harbor attack