Transcript THE GLOBAL CONFLICT - Forest Hills Local School District

“ALLIED” SUCCESSES
?? WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW ??

1.) What is Hitler’s goal in occupying
lands throughout Europe?

2.) Name and explain 2 turning points of
World War II.

3.) How would the ALLIES stop German
control of France?
OCCUPIED LANDS
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Germany conquering Europe.
 Japan taking up Asia and the
Pacific.
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Hitler sets up “puppet
governments”.
 Ruled by Aryans
 SLAVS considered inferior.
 Countries stripped of all
culture/resources.
“Living Space for Germans”
 Policy to kill all peoples
judged “racially inferior”.
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 Slavs, Gypsies, mentally ill, and
JEWS.
The Final Solution
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By 1941, Hitler and the Nazi’s
had developed a plan to
eliminate the Jewish problem.
 Ordered the deliberate murder of
all European Jews. -- GENOCIDE
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“Death Camps” in Poland (7 in
total)
 Jewish are shipped to camps
 Nazi’s devise most effective
means of killing
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Auschwitz -- 2,100,000 killed
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Arbeit Macht Frei
“Work makes you free.”
THE CO-PROSPERITY SPHERE
“Asia for Asians” ---Anti-Imperialism
 Treated conquered
people w/ brutality.
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 Chinese, Filipinos, &
Malaysians.
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Real Goal: Japanese
empire in Asia.
THE “ALLIED” WAR EFFORT
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The BIG THREE
 FDR, Stalin, Churchill
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Agreed to finish war in Europe first.
 Each distrusted the other
 Stalin begs for help!
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1944, USA and Britain open a western front to help
Soviets.
TOTAL WAR
Each side totally committed.
 Factories make war
supplies.
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 Ends unemployment from
Depression.

USA restricts certain citizen
rights.
 Japanese Americans treated
unfairly.
 Many lose jobs, place into
“INTERNMENT CAMPS”.
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Women serving in war.
TURNING POINTS
The tide turns to the Allies in
1942-1943.
 Battle of El Alamein
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 British stop Nazi’s in Egypt
 Erwin Rommel “Desert Fox”
AXIS forces driven into Tunisia.
 This allowed ALLIES to leap
into Italy.
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 Forces overwhelm Italy in a
month.
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1943 -- Mussolini is
overthrown!!
THE RED ARMY RESISTS
The Soviets were able to stall Nazi’s outside out
Leningrad.
 Hitler looks to advance from the South and take
Stalingrad
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 This city is named after whom…?
STALINGRAD
One of the costliest battles of
WWII.
 Nazi’s surrounded the city.
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 Soviets then surrounded them.
Street-by-street conflict
 Germans were trapped and
surrendered in 1943.
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 300,000 killed or wounded.
 SOVIETS go on offensive.
INVASION OF FRANCE
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1944, ALLIES are
ready to open a
second front in Europe.
 Invasion of France
 Must organize troops &
supplies
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The ALLIES would
choose June 6, 1944 to
begin the operation.
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower
D-Day June 6, 1944 ---- “Day of Days”
ALLIED paratroopers
were dropped behind
enemy lines.
 In the Dawn, 176,000
troops were carries by
boat to the shores of
Normandy.
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 Germans occupied the
beach and hills.
 Machine gun fire and
underwater mines greeted
the ALLIES.
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Slow crawl through the
enemy forces.
Omaha Beach
The ALLIES suffered great
losses.
 Broke through German
forces!!
 Moved towards Paris to end
Hitler’s reign.
 By August 25th, ALLIES had
retaken Paris.
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 “FRANCE IS FREE!”
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Attention focused on
defeating Germany and
Japan
?? WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW ??

1.) What is Hitler’s goal in occupying
lands throughout Europe?

2.) Name and explain 2 turning points of
World War II.

3.) How would the ALLIES stop German
control of France?