VE Day and VJ Day 11.7 Students analyze America’s participation in World War II. 2. Explain U.S. and Allied wartime strategy, including the major battles of Midway, Normandy, Iwo Jima, Okinawa, and the Battle of the Bulge. 3. Identify the roles and sacrifices of individual American soldiers, as well as the unique contributions of the special fighting forces (e.g., the Tuskegee Airmen, the 442nd Regimental Combat team, the Navajo Code Talkers). 7. Discuss the decision to drop atomic bombs and the consequences of the decision (Hiroshima and Nagasaki).
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VE Day and VJ Day
11.7 Students analyze America’s participation in World War II.2. Explain U.S. and Allied wartime strategy, including the major battles of Midway,
Normandy, Iwo Jima, Okinawa, and the Battle of the Bulge.3. Identify the roles and sacrifices of individual American soldiers, as well as the
unique contributions of the special fighting forces (e.g., the Tuskegee Airmen, the442nd Regimental Combat team, the Navajo Code Talkers).
7. Discuss the decision to drop atomic bombs and the consequences of the decision(Hiroshima and Nagasaki).
Vocabulary
• V-E Day
• Island Hopping
• Kamikaze pilots
• Manhattan Project
• Hiroshima
• Nagasaki
Overall losses
• United States – Men sent to WWII 16,112,566 – KIA 291,557 – Wounded 670,846
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0004619.html
D Day
Dwight D Eisenhower plans an invasion on the coast of France
Normandy, France
21 American divisions
26 British, Canadian and Polish
Goal: convince Germans that the Allied attack come to Calais
June 6, 1944
• 11,000 planes prepared the way
• The attack allowed for a foothold to be taken
• Next goal: capture Berlin
Battle of the Bulge
• German counter attack almost successful
• Germans caught Allies by surprise
• Battle of the Bulge instead crippled Germany
VE Day
• Germany had a two front war
• Soviets made it to Berlin by January
• April 1945 Mussolini fled to Switzerland– U.S forces closed in on the West side of
Berlin– May 7, 1945 Germany surrendered
Island Hopping Casualties
• Battle of Midway – USA: <1,000
• Iwo Jima, World War II (19 Feb.-9 April 1945) 28 000
• Gilbert, History of the Twentieth Century – Japanese soldiers: 20,000 – US: 6,821 marines + 900 sailors
• Johnson, Modern Times – US: 4,917 d. – Japanese: >18,000 k.
Costs of Pacific Theater
Guadalcanal •US: 1,592 fatalities •Japanese: 25,000 lost
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