Transcript The War in Europe and North Africa

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Chapter 24 Section 1
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Standard: Identify the various theaters of World War II.
What were the events and significance of the Allies’ D-Day
invasion of France.
WRITE QUESTIONS
1. Who was Rosie the
Riveter?
2. What was the LendLease Act?
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Morning Work
Flags of our Fathers quiz
Lecture: War in North
Africa and Europe
Band of Brothers: Episode
One
Map Activity: Map of
Europe/North Africa:
Allies, Axis, and dates
Agenda
WRITE QUESTIONS
1. Who was Rosie the
Riveter?
2. What was the LendLease Act?
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2nd/3rd Period
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Morning Work
Lecture: War in North
Africa and Europe
WWII in HD: Darkness
Falls
Map Activity: Map of
Europe/North Africa:
Allies, Axis, and dates
Agenda
Write questions
1. What was Operation
Barbarossa?
2. Why was controlling
the Atlantic a key to
Allied victory?
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1st Period
Morning Work
 Midterm
 Lecture: War in
Europe
 Band of Brothers (DDay invasion)
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Agenda
Write questions
1. What was Operation
Barbarossa?
2. Why was controlling
the Atlantic a key to
Allied victory?
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2nd/3rd Period
Morning Work
 Lecture: War in North
Africa
 Band of Brothers (DDay invasion)
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Agenda
 Defeating
the Axis
Powers depended on
control of the seas.
 GR had a very
powerful navy
New surface ships
(including the
Bismarck)
 U-boats
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 GR
used new
tactics to increase
U-boat
effectiveness
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Wolf pack: U-boats
hunted in groups
and often during
the night
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U.S. helped turn the tide
in the Battle of the
Atlantic.
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Produced new ships at an
amazing rate
Ships were used to form
larger, better-equipped
convoys
Allied aircraft protected
convoys from the air.
The Allies broke the GR
code system, which was
called the Enigma
 Operation
BARBAROSSA
GR invasion of USSR
 June 22, 1941
 USSR received many
warnings
 GR held a vast
portion of the
western Soviet Union
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The numbers: Operation BARBAROSSA
Soviet Union:
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303 divisions
7.15 million men in army
Germany
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205 divisions
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38 in France
12 in Norway
1 in Denmark
7 in Balkans
2 North Africa
Just left 145 divisions for invasion of Soviet Union
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Leningrad
Siege began in September 4, 1941January 18, 1943
 Starve the city into submission
 Held out for 900 days
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Stalingrad
Industrial center
 Attacked in August 11, 1942
 Hitler defeated on February 2,
1943
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Tide turns for Hitler
Russia’s two generals-space/winter
 Unpaved roads or roads didn’t exist
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German POWs
Aftermath of Stalingrad
 Importance
of
North Africa
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Needed the ability
to ship oil from the
Middle East through
the Suez Canal.
 Result
Africa
in North
Italy could not drive
Britain from Egypt.
 Hitler sent troops
under the direction of
Erwin Rommel.
 Germans defeated at
the battle of El
Alamein.
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 Commanded
by
Dwight D.
Eisenhower
 November 8, 1942
 US forces invade
Morocco/Algeria
 By May 1943- Allies
defeated Rommel’s
forces
 Italy
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July 10 1943: BR/US
invade Sicily
July 25, 1943:
Italian people
forced Mussolini
from power
Hitler rushed into
Italy to stop Allies
 Operation
Overlord
Goal: End war as
quickly as possible
 Planned invasion of
France from the
beaches of
Normandy
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Omar Bradley (left)
 D-Day
June 6, 1944
 Allied force of 3.5
million soldiers
 The Germans were
slow to respond
 August 25, 1944:
Paris freed
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 December
16, 1944
 Surprise offensive by
the Germans
 December 18 Germans
drove a “bulge” in the
American defenses
 Ended in late January
1945 with Allied
victory
German Soldiers
Fallen Soldiers
Frostbite
Merry Christmas, Hitler!
Battle of Atlantic
3 reasons why Germany performed well in the early
stages of the Battle of Atlantic.
2 reasons the Allies won the Battle of Atlantic
1 reason the Battle of Atlantic was important.
 War in North Africa and Europe
3 battles fought in North Africa and Soviet Union.
2 countries America invaded in Operation Torch
1 reason North Africa was vital to the Allies cause.
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WRITE QUESTIONS
1. Who was Rosie the
Riveter?
2. What was the LendLease Act?
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3rd/4th Period
Morning Work
 Lecture: War in North
Africa and Europe
 Map Activity: Map of
Europe/North Africa:
Allies, Axis, and dates
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Agenda
Write questions
1. What was Operation
Barbarossa?
2.
What was a wolf
pack?
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3rd/4th Period
Morning Work
 Lecture: War in North
Africa
 Band of Brothers (DDay invasion)
 Chapter 24-1 Quiz
 Final Countdown
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Agenda
WRITE QUESTIONS
1. What was Operation
Overlord?
2. Why did America
join the war in 1941?
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2nd/4th Period
Morning Work
 Lecture: War in
Europe/North Africa:
Battle of the Bulge
 Chapter 24-2 Quiz
 Lecture: Holocaust
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Agenda