Goal: 10.8.3 Explain in detail the war effort on the home front & the major turning points of the war in Europe

In-class: Begin 16.4 Victory in Europe Notes, Japanese Internment Camp Primary Source Document Analysis

Reflection #5: Reviewing 16.1-16.3

Answer the following questions:1. What event triggered WWII? (hint: Germany invaded what country)2. What countries made up the Allies?3. What countries made up the Axis?4. What event made the US join WWII?5. What was Hitler’s “Final Solution”?6. What were two tactics that Hitler used to rid Germany of Jews before creating his “Final Solution”?

Homework: Complete any missing assignments. May 7th- gradebook closes for progress report grades. Improve your grades before then!

Thursday May 1, 2014

Part I: 16.4 Allied Victory

in Europe Ms. Wyatt

Spring 2014

Tide Turns on Two Fronts

Russians want Allies to open a 2nd front in France, but they strike first in North Africa

North African Campaign General Bernard Montgomery—will take control of

British troops

Fighting against Rommel in the Battle of El Alamein

Rommel’s army will fall back

Operation Torch—led by General Eisenhower, will catch Rommel while he is fleeing from Montgomery

Rommel will be crushed for good

Battle of Stalingrad (August 23, 1942)

Hitler sends army in to capture Stalingrad Luftwaffe will night bomb the city Russians trap Germans within the city

& cut off supplies In February, German troops surrender

to Soviets Germans were on the defensive &

being pushed back (turning point!)

Invasion of Italy (July 10, 1943)

Roosevelt & Churchill Choose to invade Italy

Allied forces took Southern Italy

Germans seized Northern Italy

Fighting continues until Germany fell in May 1945

Mussolini found in back of a truck disguised as a German soldier Shot him the next day & hung his body in

downtown Milan for all to see

The Allied Home Front

WWII became total war

Mobilizing for War

American factories were converted to make war supplies

17-19 million Americans, many of them women, became workers in these factories

Shortage of consumer goods rationing

Propaganda used gain support

War Limits Civil Rights

Prejudice becomes a problem

February 19, 1942—Executive Order 9066 Japanese-Americans sent to internment

camps in the middle of the U.S. Suspected of being spies, but none were

convicted 2/3 were Nisei, native-born American

citizens Many volunteered for military service

Kicked out of their homes

Put on trains…

Taken to camps

Held in behind barbed-

wire H

Does this sound familiar?

Finish Internment Camp Worksheet-

DUE IN 10 Min.

Victory in Europe: D-Day

D-Day or Operation Overlord: June 6, 1944

The invasion of Normandy, France

Largest land and sea attack in history landed on Omaha Beach

Heavy casualties

July 25—Allies broke through German defenses & led by General Patton, were able to take Paris

Will eventually liberate France, Belgium, Luxembourg

Victory in Europe: The Battle of the

Bulge Hitler’s plan to split American & British armies & break up Allied supply line

December 16, 1944—German tanks broke through American defenses in the Ardennes

Allies caught off guard & during the coldest winter on record

Allies eventually pushed Germans back

Germany’s Unconditional

Surrender March 1945—Allies cross into Germany

April 12, 1945—FDR dies; Harry Truman takes over as President

April 25, 1945—Soviets surrounded Berlin

April 29, 1945—Hitler married Eva Braun

April 30, 1945—Hitler and Eva kill themselves & were cremated

May 7, 1945—Gen. Eisenhower accepts the unconditional surrender of the Third Reich;

May 9, 1945—V-E Day: Surrender officially signed in Berlin

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