Transcript World War II B - Liberty Union High School District

B. Europe
• 1. Jan 1943: Casablanca
Conference
• a. Decide to defeat Axis Powers
in Europe 1st, then focus on
Japan
• b. Churchill & FDR insist on
policy of “unconditional
surrender” for Germs
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D-Day (Operation Overlord)
• Allied “blitzkrieg”
• Allies used double
agents & fake armies to
fool the Germans
• Largest amphibious
invasion in history
• Normandy had extreme
tides, mined H2Os & no
ports
• Allies brought in their
own concrete harbors
(mulberries)
• The Allies had 5,000 ships &
11,000 planes
• The Allies outnumbered the
Luftwaffe 50 to 1
• The casualty rate in the
first waves was 80%
• 1 mill soldiers crossed the
Normandy beach within 18
days
2. June 6, 1944: D-Day (Operation
Overlord): Allied invasion of Nazi
occupied France
• a. largest amphibious invasion
• b. Led by General Eisenhower
c. Normandy, France
• 1. Surprise: Germs thought attack
would come at Calais
• 2. Third Army, led by General Patton,
liberated Paris from German
occupation
• 3. Allies sweep Germans out of France
• 4. Dec 1944: Battle of the Bulge: last
German offensive
General George Patton
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Friendly Fire
• The first German
serviceman killed in World
War II was killed by the
Japanese (China, 1937), the
first American serviceman
killed was killed by the
Russians (Finland 1940), the
highest-ranking American
killed was Lt. Gen. Lesley
McNair, killed by the U.S.
Army Air Corps.
• The German submarine U120 was sunk by a
malfunctioning toilet.
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World War II
• At the time of Pearl
Harbor, the top U.S. Navy
command was called
CINCUS (pronounced
“sink us”), the shoulder
patch of the U.S. Army
45th Infantry Division was
the swastika, and Hitler’s
private train was named
“Amerika.” All three
names were soon changed
for PR purposes.
• The youngest U.S.
serviceman was 12-year-old
Calvin Graham, USN. He
was wounded and given a
dishonorable discharge for
lying about his age. His
benefits were later restored
by act of Congress)
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War in Europe
Among the first Axis soldiers
• When the allied armies
captured at Normandy by
Americans were several Koreans. reached the Rhine River in
Germany, the first thing
They had been forced to fight for
men did was pee in it. This
the Japanese Army until they
was pretty universal, from
were captured by the Russians
and then forced to fight for the
the lowest private to
Russian Army until they were
Winston Churchill and Gen.
captured by the Germans and
George Patton.
further forced to fight for the
German Army until they were
captured by the U.S. Army.
7 Future American Presidents Views of the World
Were Formed by Their Service in World War II
•Every man who was a United States President from 1953 until 1993
wore a military uniform during WW2.
The Allies agreed in
1942 that their first
military goal would be
to defeat the Axis
powers here
Europe
This was the last
German offensive
attack before the
Allies entered
Germany
Battle of the
Bulge
This enabled the
Allies to establish a
base from which they
swept the Axis out of
France
D-Day
At the conference here,
it was decided that the
Allies would fight until
the Axis powers
surrendered
unconditionally
Casablanca
This general led the
Third Army into Paris to
liberate the city from
German occupation
General George
Patton