Transcript The Allies Plan for Victory

Chapter 16 Section 4
The Allies Are Victorious
By:
Keely, Micheal, Austin, and Kylie
Mr. Schumacher
Period 4
The Allies Plan for Victory
•After Pearl Harbor Churchill and President Roosevelt develop a joint war policy.
•The allies agree on a two front war to spread out German forces.
The Tide Turns on Two Fronts
•Churchill wants to attack first in Africa and Europe.
•Stalin angry with this plan, he wants the U.S. and Britain to attack in France first.
•In late 1932 allies turn the tide of the war.
The North African Campaign
•Germans have been in Africa since 1941.
•On June 1942, Erwin Rommel, a German General, took the key port city of Tobruk.
•British send over General Bernard Montgomery to take control of their forces in
Africa.
•On October 23, 1700 British soldiers attack Rommel’s forces at El Alamein.
•On November 3 Rommel’s army retreated West.
•The Allies launch, Operation Torch, on November 8.
•An allied force of about 107,000 led by American general, Dwight D. Eisenhower, and
this led to the downfall of Rommel in May 1943.
Turning Point at Stalingrad
•German armies suffer losses because of Russian winters.
•Then in summer Hitler sends his Sixth Army to seize the rich oil fields in the Caucasus
Mountains.
•The Battle of Stalingrad began August 23, 1942 with nightly bombing runs which
reduced the city to rubble.
•By November 1942 Germans controlled 90% of the city.
•On November 1942 Soviet forces launch a counter attack.
•On February 2, 1943 90,000 German troops surrender.
•Soviets then began to push Germany out of Russia.
The Invasion of Italy
•In January 1943, Roosevelt and Churchill
decide to attack Italy despite Stalin’s
disagreement.
•On July 10, 1943, an Ally force of
180,000 soldiers land in Sicily and capture
it.
•This defeat toppled Mussolini and King
Victor Emmanuel III fired him.
•On September 3, Italy surrendered.
•Germans seized control of Northern Italy
and put Mussolini back in charge.
•On April 28, 1945 Allies ambush some
trucks and find Mussolini disguised as a
German soldier
•They next day he was shot and hanged in
the Milan town square.
Life on Allied Home Fronts
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Americans at home helped supply the soldiers in war with weapons and
equipment, putting a lot of effort in to winning the war.
Allies did anything they could do to help eliminate the Axis as soon as
possible
About 18 million U.S. workers in factories- mostly women
Youngsters saved their pennies to buy war stamps to help pay for the way
Produced highly effective propaganda campaigns
Japanese Americans were considered the enemy after Pearl Harbor
“Aliens” shipped to relocation camps
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Allied Victory un Europe
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end of 1942: war in favor of Allies
1943: secret building of force in Great Britain
plan: attack Germans
– The D-day Invasion
May 1944: 3.5 mil. Troops and American General, Dwight D. Eisenhower (commander) plan to
strike coast of Normandy
Allies set up huge dummy army to keep Hitler busy
German knew attack was coming, didn’t know when
“Operation Overload”
greatest land and sea attack in history
called D-day  June 6, 1944
July 25
Allies punch hole in German defense near Saint-Lo
August 25
Allies: liberate France, Belgium, Luxembourg and Netherlands
– The Battle of the Burge
Hitler faces war on both fronts
Fuhrer counter attack in west: hoped the victory split U.S. and British and break up allied supply lines.
Dec. 16
German tanks break through U.S. defense; give the campaign its name  “Battle of the Bulge”
-but Allies eventually push Germans back and win.
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War neared end after Bulge in Europe
March 1945
Allies cross Rhine R. into Germany
April
noose closes Berlin and 3 mil. U.S. troops approach S.W. 6 mil. Soviets approach east
April 25, 1945
Soviets surround capital
Hitler prepares his end in underground headquarters
April 29
marries Eva Braun
Hitler blames Jews for starting war and generals for losing it
Him and wife kill themselves not long after
May 7, 1945
General Eisenhower accepts surrender of Third Reich
May 8
Surrender officially signed in Berlin
U.S. and other Allies celebrate V-E (victory in Europe) Day
Victory in the Pacific
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Allies still fighting the Japanese in the Pacific
1944:
-Allied invade Japan.
-Japanese destroy American fleet
-Lost miserably in the Battle of Leyte Gulf
-The kamikaze sank Allies ships by crashing into them in their
bomb-filled planes
1945- American Marines took Iwa Jima
-June 22, the war was over
-Japanese lost 110,000 troops
-Americans lost 12,500 troops
President Truman threatened to drop the Atomic Bomb on
Japan if they did not surrender
August 6, 1945 the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima
and killed 73,000 people
Another bomb was dropped on August 9, killing 37,500
On September 9, Japan surrendered which ended the war
Vocabulary
• Erwin Rommel- General who took the key port city of Tobruk in June
1942.
• Bernard Montgomery- General who took control of British forces in
North Africa. He launched the Battle of El Alamein with a massive
attack from the frontline.
• Dwight D. Eisenhower- American General who led an Allied force of
more than 107,000 troops that landed in Morocco and Algeria.
• Battle of Stalingrad- A 1942-1943 battle of World War II, in which
German forces were defeated in their attempt to capture the city of
Stalingrad in the Soviet Union.
• D-Day- They day on which the Allies began their invasion of the
European mainland during World War II.
• Battle of the Bulge- Battle in which Allied forces turned back the last
major German offensive of World War II.
• Kamikaze- Japanese suicide pilots trained to sink Allied ships by
crashing bomb-filled planes into them.
Questions
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How did the day “D-Day” get its name?
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How did the war end?
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Who dropped the atomic bomb on Japan in 1945?
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Who was the general when the Allies launched Operation Torch
in Africa?
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When Mussolini was discovered to be put back in control of Italy
by the Germans, where was he found and what happened to him?
Answers
1. By the invasion of Normandy, which was the
greatest land and sea attack in history
2. May 7, 1945 the Germany military Sent an
unconditional surrender of the Third Reich.
3. The United States
4. Dwight D. Eisenhower
5. The Italian resistance ambushed his truck and
he was shot and hung the next day.