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Do Now & ObjectiveObjectiveanalyze Allied war plans and key battles to determine their effect on the war
Do Now• Looking at the map of German occupied Europe, what would be your plan to invade and defeat Hitler?
The Allies are Victorious
Chapter 32 Section 4
I Allied Plan for Victory & Turning of the Tide
• Stalin wants allies to open front in west to relieve pressure in the east• 2 fronts = fighting in 2 regions
• Plan = weaken Germany on 2 fronts death blow• Start attack in N Africa angers Stalin-wanted
France• General “Monty” beats “desert fox” retreat• Operation Torch lead by Eisenhower
destruction of Afrika Korps
• After winter is over in Russia Hitler sending troops to seize oil fields & to capture Stalingrad = Major industrial center
Battle of Stalingrad• Luftwaffe destroys city but Russians
ordered not to retreat• Russia counters but German’s ordered
not to retreat• Battle of Stalingrad = TURNING POINT
of war • Germany took too many losses and could
only defend & retreat from this point on
Italian Campaign•Allies attack Italy toppling of Mussolini•Mussolini fired by King but back by Hitler•Allies enter & Mussolini captured•Shot & hung in Milan square
II Life on Allied Home Fronts•US convert peacetime factories to
wartime production shortage of consumer goods•Millions of Americans working in
war industries (women)•Allied powers propaganda to
inspire more effort on home front• Also prejudice prop after Pearl
Harbor• Japanese Internment
III Allied Victory in Europe
•D-Day = day of the invasion of France at Normandy beaches• Eisenhower in charge of Operation Overlord• Fake invasion fort at Calias
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCLJhxfj608 – D Day invasion
• From France they head to Germany from the west• Hitler orders large counterattack in
west to split allied troops• Broke into American lines giving it
the name Battle of the Bulge• Allies eventually win Hitler’s losses
lead him to only be able to retreat from that point on
• Hitler & his wife commit suicide• Eisenhower accepts unconditional
surrender from the Third Reich• V-E Day = victory in Europe Day
• V-E day marks end of fighting in Europe but fighting still in the Pacific theater
Battle of Leyte Gulf• Japanese risk entire fleet to destroy the
American fleet• Japanese suffered huge loss could no
longer effectively fight Kamikaze• Iwo Jima Iconic photo raising the flag•Manhattan Project A-bomb used in
Hiroshima & Nagasaki Japanese surrender
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