Transcript War in Europe Post Pearl Harbor

 By
Nov. 1942 Hitler had reached as far into the
Soviet Union at Moscow and Stalingrad
 This
is where Stalin decided to take a stand
 Battle
of Stalingrad is a turning point in the war –
it marks the end of German advance into the
Soviet Union
 By
January 1943 the Germans had run out of
supplies and were forced to surrender and retreat
 General
Eisenhower and the US forces land
in Northern Africa in late 1942 to assist the
British in repelling the German advance
 By
May 1943 the German Afrika Korps had
fully surrendered
 The
Allies attention turned to Italy
 Invasion
begins on the Island of Sicily
 Once
Sicily is taken the move to the
mainland of Italy
 The
Allies are assisted by 50,000 antiMussolini Italians
 In
June of 1944 the Capitol city of Rome is
take back from the Germans
 In
April of 1945 Italian
resistance fighters
capture and kill Mussolini
 His
dead body is hung in
the streets and beaten
along with his mistress
and his henchmen
 Allied
troops pushed north from Italy; Soviet
army pushed west into Poland
 Eisenhower
planned the invasion of
Germany
 D-Day
took 2 years to plan, 3 million troops,
thousands of ships, innovations in
technology, good weather, and lots of luck
“D
Day” is military code for the day an
operation will take place
“H
Hour” is the time of the operation
The
military planned for the attack not
knowing which day it would occur
Also
called “Operation Overlord”
5
beaches- Omaha, Utah, Juno,
Sword and Gold beach
160,000
Allied troops stormed the
beaches of Normandy, France
Nearly
12,000 Allied deaths
 By
August 24th the Allies had reached Paris
and freed the city of the German military
 Axis
powers try to make an advance into the
forest Ardennes, Belgium
 Fought
during the coldest winter on record
 Named
for the bulging shape of the Allied front
 Largest
battle of WWII
 Hitler’s
last attempt to win the war
 Allies
suffered 81,000 deaths, Axis 104,000