Victory in Europe / Victory in

the Pacific

4 Slides
2 Movie Clips
Lots’a Pictures!
 How did we win in Europe?
• After D-Day invasion,
hundreds of
thousands of Allied
troops land in Europe
• Allies fight toward
Germany.
• August 1944– Paris
is freed
• Defeating Nazis in
major battles
 How did V-E Day happen?
• January 1945–
Germans began final
retreat.
• Allied bombing
devastates major
German cities.
• Hitler realized
Germans lost &
commits suicide
• May 8, 1945– V-E
Day
What about Japan?
• April 12, 1945–Roosevelt
dies of stroke.
• Truman – now has to win
in the Pacific
• Americans developed an
atomic bomb to totally
scare and destroy the
Japanese into surrender
• Japan would not surrender
 What were Hiroshima and
Nagasaki?
• August 6, 1945- Hiroshima
• 180,000 people killed,
wounded or missing
• 70,000 died instantaneously
• August 9, 1945 – Nagasaki
• 100,000 killed or wounded
• August 15, 1945– Japanese
announce their surrender
(V-J Day)
Hiroshima: August 6, 1945
Nagasaki: August 9, 1945