Chapter 30 Lesson 5 Guided Reading
By August ______________ , Allied troops had liberated _______________ ,France.
1944 Paris
The war in the Pacific finally ended on ________________ , shortly after the United States dropped atomic bombs on ________________ and ________________.
August 14th Hiroshima and Nagasaki
On June 6, 1944, known as ________________ , Allied forces under U.S. general ________________ landed on the Normandy beaches in history's greatest naval invasion.
D-Day Dwight D. Eisenhower
On April 30, 1945, ________________ committed suicide, and shortly after on ________________ , Germany surrendered.
Hitler May 7
Churchill claimed that an ________________ had descended across Europe, and many Westerners suspected a ________________ conspiracy.
Iron curtain World
The island of ________________ was essential to the air war against Japan, and the island of ________________ provided the Allies with a base near the mainland.
Iwo Jima Okinawa
In 1943, the ________________ defeated German forces in the Battle of________________ , the greatest tank battle of World War II.
Soviets Kursk
The ________________ wanted to create Soviet-friendly governments as a buffer-zone between the ________________ and the ________________.
US Sakhalin and Kuril Islands
Germany was divided into four zones, controlled by ________________ ,________________ , ________________ , and ________________.
United States Great Britain France Soviet Union
The Grand Alliance agreed to hold the ________________ trials and establish the ________________ but disagreed on the establishment of free elections in Eastern Europe.
War United Nations
