1. Victory In Europe! And…
Victory (eventually) in Asia!

2. Dead soldiers lie in the snow after the Battle
of the Bulge. Both sides lost many but the
Allies won and marched into Germany!

3. Crowds of people in each French city meet
Allied soldiers and hug and cheer them as
they free their towns from Hitler’s control.

4. After the Allies (Americans and British) won at the
horrid ‘Battle of the Bulge’, German soldiers ran
out of France and back into Germany!

5. Soviet Union troops attack
Germany’s capital city of Berlin and
raise their flag to show victory!

6. With the U.S. and Britain moving into Germany from the
west and the Soviet ‘red’ army moving in from the east,
Hitler is said to have killed himself. The Soviets took these
photos but the body was never viewed by the U.S.

7. On May 8, 1845, Germany unconditionally
surrendered to the Allied side and the War in
Europe was over!

8. Newspapers proclaimed the victory in Europe from
New York to London to Paris!

9. This British newspaper tells citizens
to REJOICE!

10. And they do! The V-E celebration
was a HUGE party in Europe!

12. But for the United States, they had
yet one more country to do battle
with…

13. Raising the U.S. flag on the Island
of Iwo Jima

14. In spring of 1945, American navy and marines attacked the
Japanese islands of Iwo Jima and Okinawa in the Pacific
Ocean. We were closer to Japan but wow- 50,000
American men were killed in the fighting!
Do we continue on to Japan and lose another
million men? Or do we unleash the biggest
weapon yet on an unsuspecting Japanese
army?
What did we do?
President Harry Truman who took over when
Roosevelt died-had to help make this hard,
horrible decision. Them or us?
What would you do?

15. The world’s 1st atomic bomb was
dropped by the U.S. on Hiroshima,
Japan in 1945.

20. The plane that dropped the
Atomic Bomb

22. A brother and sister seek
comfort in Nagasaki

25. Hiroshima today at the Peace
Garden