Period 7:1890-1945

An increasingly pluralistic United States

faced profound domestic and global
challenges, debated the proper degree of
government activism, and sought to
define its international role.

7.7 America in World War II

World War II

Major Conflicts
General Douglas MacArthur
I shall return
World War II in the Pacific
Doolittle Raid April 1942
Turning Point: Battle of El Alamein, November 1942
Turning Point: Operation Torch, Rommel AfrikaKorps, May 1943
Turning Point: Captured German Soldiers, Battle of Stalingrad, 1943
General George Patton
General Dwight D. Eisenhower
Operation Overlord D-Day
General George Patton
 Battle of the Bulge,
December 1944January
1945
Bombing of Dresden
US and Soviet soldiers meet near Torgau, Germany, in April 1945.
Soviet Solider Raises the Soviet Flag on the Reichstag, May 1945
Germany Surrenders Unconditionally May 7, 1945
World War II in the Pacific
Battle of the Coral Sea
Battle of the Coral Sea
Battle of Midway - Yorktown at the moment of impact of a torpedo
Battle of Midway
Battle of Guadalcanal Solomon Islands
Battle of Guadalcanal Solomon Islands
Flag Raising on Iwo Jima
Battle of Iwo Jima
Battle of Okinawa
Battle of Okinawa
Fire Bombing of Tokyo
United States Thrusts in the Pacific, 19421945 Island Hopping
April 12, 1945 Death of FDR
Harry S. Truman
Little Boy - This is bomb that was dropped over Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945.
(7.3.IIIB)
Fat Man - This is bomb that was dropped over Nagasaki, Japan on August 9, 1945.
 Col. Paul Tibbets waves to
photographers and film
crews before taking off in the
early morning of August 6,
1945 for Hiroshima, Japan.
Atomic Bomb Cloud over
Hiroshima
August 6th, 1945
Hiroshima - Effects
The foreground shows the ruins of the Hiroshima Gas Company Building
(800 feet from the hypocenter).
In the center are the ruins of the Honkawa Elementary School.
Hiroshima Effects Note: The Shadows
Atomic Bomb Cloud over Nagasaki - August 9th, 1945
World War II

Allied Diplomacy During the War

(7.3.IIIC)
Casablanca Conference January, 1945
Tehran Conference November/December 1943
Yalta Conference, 1945
Potsdam Conference Winston Churchill, Harry S Truman, Joseph Stalin
World War II

Aftermath
West Germany Damage
World War II

Aftermath Holocaust (7.3.IIIB)

Jews captured and forcibly pulled out from dugouts by the Germans during the Warsaw
Ghetto uprising.
Entrance to Auschwitz-Birkenau, 1945
Entrance to Auschwitz-Birkenau, 1945
Hungarian Jews on the Judenrampe (Jewish ramp) after disembarking from the transport
trains, to be sent rechts! to the right meant labor; links! to the left the gas
chambers. (May 1944)
Entrance to Auschwitz-Birkenau, 1945
World War II

Aftermath Post War Political

Issues (7.3.IIIE)