HIST 1378 TTh 2:30-4 PM Lecture 15Outline of Last Lecture Appeasement, Isolationism, and the Outbreak of Waro Europeo Asiao U.S.Outline of Current Lecture The World at War- Soviet Uniono The Grand Alliance: Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalino The Politics of War: The Second Fronto D-Day and Victory: Seeds of Cold Waro The Pacific War (1941-1945)Current LectureThe World at War- Soviet Invasiono The Grand Alliance: Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin B/w US, Britain, and Soviet Union in opposition to aggression of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japano The Politics of War: The Second Front (1942) Russians had a right to push for second front, wanted other Allies to invade Europe and put pressure on Axis powersThese notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute. This would mean that Germany would have to divide forces and supplieso D-Day and Victory: Seeds of Cold War (1944) Invasion of Normandy, France under “Operation Overlord” Deception led Hitler to believe that Allies would be attacking at Pas-de-Calais Crucial for Western Allies to bring war to western border of Germanyo The Pacific War (1941-1945) Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor,Hawaii In response, US declares waron Japan US defeated Japan at Battle ofCoral Sea and Midway Grand Alliance meets togetherin Yalta conference to talkabout situation of the war Creation of bombs throughManhattan Project- Atomic Diplomacy- Potsdam Conferenceand Almogordo (inCrimean peninsula)o Conference was stalled, then finally meet in July 1945o Truman was nervous, but then scientist told Truman that they had successfully tested the bomb. Now he’s happy - Harry Truman decided to drop atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan Eventually, Japanese surrendered (V-J
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