Allied Plan- French democracy = German surrender
- goal met- Paris liberated
Battle of the Bulge
- Germans attack Belgium (want to restrict trade w/ Allies), Bastogne (hope to advance over Allies)
- U.S. significantly weakens German power
- cut off fuel, strong army
- Germans
- kicked out of Russia
- attacked by strong Russian, U.S. forces in east and west
- Berlin invasion = V-E Day
- Truman- faced w/ cruel situations
- B-29s have rough times, Iwo Jima solves
- bloody battle, Japan used to the severe land
- napalm bombs help Allied forces, Japan intensely weakened
- fires, asphyxiation
- Okinawa more convenient than Iwo Jima, serves as American naval base
- atomic bomb the answer?
- Japan- now want peace, but emperor, too
- Manhattan Project- atomic bomb project
-many object to a.b.
- Hiroshima, Nagasaki bombings = V-J Day
- UN keep peace, solve international disputes/problems
- Japanese, Germans punished by IMT
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