Transcript The Battle for Europe

II. Battle for Europe
A. Operation Torch- North African Campaign
1. Leaders –
Allied forces
a. Dwight Eisenhower – Commander of __________in
Europe front
b. Erwin Rommel, aka…”The _________Fox”
German _____
Desert
Afrika Korps
Patton - America Army General ,led ____divisions.
c. George S. ______
tank
2. Nov 1942 – May 1943 – Battle for ________
North Africatoo only _____
seven months
disgraced
3. Rommel is ___________
Thought to in plot to kill Hitler. He commits
honorable ___________
rather than suffer ______________of
trial.
suicide
humiliation
B. Operation Overlord
1. Allied invasion of the ___________Europe…
aka,______.
mainland
D-Day June 6, 1944
Calais
2. Deception- Allies set a mock invasion at _______in
north.
a. Card board______,
tanks a few ships and a small force sent to _____Germans
trick
b. It worked. Hitler ___________
positions major defenses to north coast.
reposition
c. Refuses to _________force
once D-day begins thinking that it is the fake.
3. Numbers
160,000
5000 allied ships and ______
5000 allied Aircraft
______ allied men landed, ____
3. Heavy Casualties
a. ________
4900 allies dead in first 24 hours
1900 French civilians died in bombing
b. ________
c. ________souls
lost in the total campaign Axis and Allied. (War Sux)
429,000
C. Battle of the Bulge
1. Allied forces capture first German ________…
Hitler orders __________attack.
town
counter
2. Eight German ____
__
tank division break enemy lines and _____through
bulge
60 miles deep
3. Germans capture 120_________,
Americans marched them into a field and _______them.
execute
4. Battle lasted ___days
and Allies _________.
30
prevail
5. Germans losses: _________
120,000 troops … ______
600 tanks… ______
1600 airplanes
D. Fall of Berlin/ V.E. Day
1. ________1945
V.E. Day (Victory in Europe)
April 25,
bunker on last day
2. Hitler in ______
a. Marries Mistress ___________
Eva Braun
b. She bites _________
cyanide capsule and dies
c. Hitler Shoots his dog, _________
Blondie .
d. Takes cyanide capsule himself and _______
shoots himself in head.
burn bodies of Hitler and Eva
e. Body guards _____
3. _______________
Russians Troops storm bunker and find charred masses.