Transcript WWII Europe

The Allies
 After Pearl Harbor was bombed by the
Japanese the US entered the war
 FDR & Ghurchill meet, decide on a
two front war
 They target North Africa & The
Mediterranean
The Battle of Stalingrad
 August 1942- Germans Bomb
Stalingrad
 Hitler wanted the oil from the
Caucasus Mts.
 Feb 1943 only 90,000 of 330,000
Germans were left
 The city was 99% destroyed
North Africa
 After Rommel took the port city of Tobruk
the British sent General Bernard
Montgomery to fight, he was succesful
 Rommel retreated west
 At the same time General Dwight D
Eisenhower landed in Morocco to trap
Rommel
 The German Africa Corps was smashed
General Eisenhower
 Supreme Allied
Commander
General Omar Bradley
 Commanded all
US ground
forces in Europe
General Patton
 Old Blood &
Guts
 Most Feared
Allied General of
Nazi Germany
Invasion of Italy
 July 1943- Allies land in Sicily
 Enter Rome June 1944
 Found Mussolini dressed as a German
soldier,
 He was shot and hanged the next day
in Milan
D- Day Invasion
Code named Operation OVERLORD
The greatest land & sea attack in history
June 6, 1944 (Saving Private Ryan)
3000 died on that day
Paratroopers & Amphibious landing
1 million troops landed after they took the
Beach
 August Paris, then France, Belgium, &
Luxemburg by September
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Germany’s last push
 THE BATTLE OF THE BULGE
 Dec 1944 Germans broke through a
week area in the 85 mile wide US
front
 The 101st Airborne (Band of Brothers)
held the Germans
 General Patton & his 3rd Corps
marched non stop to deal the final
blow
Race for Berlin
 3 million Allies from the west
 6 million soviets from the east race to
Berlin (This splits Germany until
1991)
 Hitler Kills himself
 May 8th 1945 Surrender
 V-E Day Victory in Europe
 Fighting still going on in Japan!