WWII COMES TO AN END

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WWII COMES TO AN END
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BATTLE OF THE BULGE

• Allies move on Germany from the west
• Soviets move in from the east
• Hitler counter attacks in west hoping to split
  U.S. Brit. Forces
• The German push into Allied lines gave the
  campaign its name

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GERMANY SURRENDERS

• April 1945 Allies approach Berlin from
  southwest
• April 25, 1945 Soviets surround Berlin and pound
  with artillery fire
• April 30, 1945 Hitler and Eva Braun commit
  suicide
• May 7, 1945 Gen. Eisenhower accepts
  unconditional surrender of Third Reich from the
  German military
• May 9, 1945 Surrender officially signed in
  Berlin -U.S. Allied powers celebrate V-E Day
  Victory in Europe Day

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THE MANHATTAN PROJECT

• Code name for creating the first atomic bomb
• Cost 2 Billion employed 600,000
• Direct by physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer in Los
  Alamos, New Mexico

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A RAIN OF RUIN FROM THE AIR

• August 6, 1945 Col. Paul Tibbets pilots the
  Enola Gay B-29 Bomber over Hiroshima and drops
  the atomic bomb Little Boy
• 5 sq. miles are turned to ashes
• Of 76,000 buildings, 70,000 flattened
• Of 350,000 people killing 70-80,000. 140,000 die
  by the end of 1945. By 1950 50,000 die from the
  effects of radiation

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Little Boy
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Hiroshima
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• August 9, 1945 - Fat Man is dropped on Nagasaki
• Of 270,000 people over 70,000 killed
  immediately

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JAPAN SURRENDERS

• Sept. 2, 1945 Japan surrenders to . Gen.
  Douglas MacArthur on the battleship Missouri in
  Tokyo Bay

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