Transcript WWII-Europe

III- The Eastern Front
• A) June 1941Germany
violates its
treaty and
invades
Russia
• 1) Captured half of the country and kill or
capture millions of Russians
• 2)Germany Army advance is stopped by the
horrific Russian winter
• B) Russian surround
the Nazi Army at the
city of Stalingrad.
• 1) Over one million
troops fight and die in
the block by block
war to win the city.
• 2) 91,000 starving
Nazi’s surrender to
the Russian Army.
• C) 1944- The Russian
Army (30 million
strong) advances
westward towards
Germany
IV- America’s Plan
• A) America splits it
Armed forces in two
• 1) The first part will
fight the Nazi’s in
Europe
• 2) The second part
will fight the Japanese
in the Pacific
• B) America sends
most of the Army and
Air Force to England
to train and get ready.
• 1) England and the
US begin a non-stop
bombing of
Germany’s cities
• 2) Saturation bombing- non-stop bombing of
every available target
• 3) Wanted to destroy Nazi factories, railroads,
and cities
C- Tuskegee Airman
• 1) 334th Fighter
Pursuit SquadrenSegregated African
American unit of
fighter pilots. “Red
Tails”
• 2) Protected
American bombers
from German fighters
• 3) Never lost a
bomber to enemy fire
V- Invasion of Europe
• A) Have to get the
American and English
armies onto mainland
Europe
• B) European supreme commander, General
Dwight Eisenhower designs Operation Overlordthe invasion of Europe
C) D-Day
• 1) June 6, 1944- 21
American divisions
and 26 English,
Canadian, and Polish
divisions attack Nazi
occupied France
• 2) 150,000 troops
attack a 50 mile
stretch of French
beaches in Normandy
• 3) After intense
fighting on the
beaches of
Normandy, the
Allies gain a
foot hold on the
main land.
• a)10,000 Allied
casualties
• D) Within a month,
America moves a
million troops and
tanks from England to
France
• 1) By August of 1944
(2 months after D
Day) the Allies push
the Nazi’s out of
France
2) Hitler orders that Paris be
burned to the ground. Luckily,
his men disobeyed the order
• E) Germany is now in
a un-winnable
position.
– Russia attacking from
the east
– America attacking
from west
• 1) By April 1945 (10
months after D-Day)
the American Army is
50 miles outside of a
ruined Berlin
• 2) The Air Force had
reduced Berlin to
rubble
• 3) America allows the
Russians to invade
Berlin and capture the
city (and lose the men
taking it).
• 4) Before he can be
captured alive, Hitler
and the German high
command commit
suicide in their
underground bunkers
• F) With Hitler dead,
Germany surrenders
unconditionally.
• 1) VE Day-May 7,
1945
• 2) VE- Victory in
Europe
• G) FDR did not see
VE Day.
• 1) He died in office
weeks earlier (natural
causes)
• 2) Vice President
Harry Truman is
tasked with
accomplishing VJ
Day
VI- The Holocaust
• A) After the war, the
Allies learned the true
extent of the Final
Solution
• 1) Final Solution- The
official Nazi plan to
purify Germany by
committing genocide
on the Jewish race in
Europe
• 2) Genocide- attempt
to exterminate a race
or ethnic group
• B) European Jews the
Nazi’s could find
were arrested before
and during the war
• 1) These Jews were
sent to Concentration
/Death camps where
they were worked to
death or exterminated
• 2) By 1945, six
million Jews had been
systematically killed
by the Nazis
• 3) Every Nazi
captured with
connections to the
genocide were tried
and hung.
• 4) Israeli agents
hunted down the
Nazis that escaped