Transcript War in North Africa

The Allies Fight Back…
War in North Africa
& Beyond
• Why North Africa???
Suez Canal= offers access to oil rich
middle east.
Suez
Canal
Fall 1940= Italians attack British
(Libya)
(Egypt)
Result: British push Italians back= threaten
to gain control of Libya
Germans enter to support Italy.
Afrika Korps: German & Italian force in N.Africa
Led by: Erwin Rommel (German)
a.k.a. Desert Fox
Afrika Korps soon push Brits out of Libya
Result: October, 1942 Battle of El Alamein
El Alamein
• Battle of El Alamein:
• Axis Powers: Led by Rommel
• Allies led by Bernard Montgomery
–use info. from secret German
codes to win battle (1943).
• Axis power in N. Africa weakened.
America joins the Battle
• November, 1942: American & British forces
land in N. Africa (are soon joined by French)
• Axis powers are trapped to East and West.
• Surrender May, 1943.
U.S.A.
Afrika Korps
El Alamein
D-Day
June 6, 1944
Poland
Invaded
Sept. 1,
1939
Battle of
Britain
May 1940-1941
Battle of the
Atlantic
1941-1943
Pearl
Harbor
Dec. 7, 1941
France
Invaded
Spring
1940
Battle of
Stalingrad
1942-1943
Battle of El
Alamein
Oct. 1942
Okinawa
March1945
Iwo Jima
Feb. 1945
Battle of
Midway
June 1942
Battle of
Coral Sea
May 1942
• What Next???
• Read pg. 448
• What is the next goal for the Allies?
– Invade Italy
• What is the Allies plan of attack?
– Take Italian island of Sicily move to mainland
• Result?
– Success… Mussolini loses power Allies
control Sicily