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C H A P T E R 2 9 S E C T I O N 3

The Allies Turn the Tide


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Lookahead

Understand hownations devoted all oftheir resources tofighting World War II

Explain howAllied victories began to push backAxispowers

Describe D-Day and the Allied advance toward Germany


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Total WarTo devote all resources towar effort

Allies realized they needed to commit to total war to defeat AxisPowers

Howdid the Allies manage to do this?


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Total War

Government increase powerCars and refrigerators to planes and tanks

RationingControl ofhowmuch food and goods one could buy

War Bonds

Lend government moneywith promise ofreturn with interest

Wages were regulated


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Rationing


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Japanese Citizens

Lost jobs, property, civil rights

Internment Camps Japanese citizens put in camps

Reparations Reparationswere paid

. 40 years later


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Women in the War

Replaced men in war industry jobs

Rosie the Riveter

Also served in the militaryDriving ambulances, delivering airplanes, decoding messages

Occupied Europe

Marie Fourcade

LilyLitvak


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Allies Forge Ahead

1942 and 1943- Turning point in the war

Battle ofthe Coral Sea- May 1942

Enemies could not see each other

Fought by planes launched from Aircraft Carriers

Aircraft Carrier- Ships that transport aircraft and accommodatethe take-offand landing ofairplanes

Kept Japanese from seizing important islands


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Battle ofthe Coral Sea


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Allies Forge Ahead

Battle ofMidway June 1942

Fought entirely by air

American Navy destroyed 4 Japanese carriers and over 250Japanese planes

After- Japan unable to launch offensive operations


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Big 3

FDR, Churchill, Stalin

1942 agreed tofocusing the finish ofwar in Europe

Although Big 3 were Allies- great distrust

1943 Conference in Tehran, Iran

Stalin wanted another allied front- ideawas rejected at the time.


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Big 3


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North Africa

Battle ofEl Alemein November 1942

Allies halted Desert Foxs advance west and drove them back

General Dwight D. Eisenhower

Advanced on Tunisia from west, Allies trapped Rommels army

Rommel Surrendered 1943


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North Africa


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Italy

Mediterranean open to Allies which nowcontrolledAfrica

Could attackItalyfrom the South

July 1943 combined Am/Brit forces landed first inSicily and then Southern Italy

Musso

linioverthr

own, Italy signs armisticeHitler sent troops in to rescue Mussolini

18 months slowpush up Italian peninsula


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Soviet Union

Battle ofStalingrad 1942

Hitler advances deep intooil rich Soviet Union

Winter Fight

Fought street by street/ house by house

In November of1942 Soviets surrounded Germans

Trapped without food or ammunition

Germans surrendered in Stalingrad January 1943


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Push into Germany

After Stalingrad- Soviets started marching West

Allies open second front in Europe

D-DayJune 6th 1944Attackon beaches ofNormandy France


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D-Day

y Just before midnight on June 5th, paratroopers dropbehind enemy lines

y 1000s ofships transported 156,000 allies across EnglishChannel

y Fought their way amid underwater mines and raging

machine guns


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D-Day Invasion


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Continuing the Advance

German forces being closed in on in Europe

Allies entered Paris in August

Free within a month

By this time, Germanywas under constant

bo

mbing Cripple Germanys industries and weaken morale ofcivilians


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Battle ofthe Bulge December 1944German counter attack

Lasted more than a month

Both sides tookheavy losses, Germanywas unable to breakthrough


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Yalta Conference

y Februaryof1945 Big 3 met at Yalta in southern SovietUnion

Stalin insisted he needed control ofEastern Europe for

protection

FDR and Church favored self-determination for EasternEurope

Self-determination- right to choose own government

3 agreed to temporally divide Germany intofour parts governed by

US, GB, SU, and France

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