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The War in EuropeToday's Objectives
1)Identify how WWII looked like in 1942.
2)Examine the Holocaust
3)Discuss how the Allies defeated Germany
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Allied Commanders of WWII
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- George S. Patton
- Bernard Montgomery
- George C. Marshall
- Benjamin O. Davis
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Battle of the Atlantic (1939-1945)
• Allied fleets vs. German U-Boats
• Allies use Convoy system to beat Germans.
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Getting in to Europe
• Operation Torch
• Allies invaded North Africa.
• Wanted control of Mediterranean, be able to strike Southern Europe.
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Invading Italy (1943)
- Operation Husky
- Led by Gen. George Patton
- Southern Italy taken
- Rome falls ( May 25th, 1944 )
- Mussolini is killed by Italians!
- Germans occupy northern half
Of country.
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The Liberation of France
- Operation Overlord (June 6th, 1944)
- Western Allies had to prepare for over 1 year for landing.
- 160,000 soldiers (27,000 Paratroopers)
- 5,000 ships
- Allied success, 10,000 Allied soldiers die.
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The Yalta Conference (Feb 4th, 1945)
- Demanded unconditional surrender of Axis powers.
- Promised Democratic elections in all European countries post-war.
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The Allied Advance in the West
- Paris is liberated ( Aug. 1944 )
- The Battle of the Bulge (Dec. 1944)
- Last German Offensive
- It fails.
- Western Allies let Red Army take Berlin (May 7th, 1945)
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The Holocaust (1942-1945)
Holocaust: Targeted extermination of European Jews.
Genocide: Deliberate annihilation of an entire people.
- “The Final Solution” for Nazi Germany.
- 12 million killed in total, 6 million Jewish people.