Transcript An Allied Victory

An Allied Victory
A.
B.
C.
D.
The Home Fronts
Plans for Victory
Victory in Europe
Victory in the Pacific
A. The Home Fronts
• Factories converted to war time production
• Limited amounts of consumer goods and led to
rationing
• Propaganda will be used to gain support of the
war – monetarily, emotionally, and militarily
In the U.S…
• Japanese Internment – anti-Japanese sentiment
led to the internment of Japanese Americans
on the west coast
• Germans interned on the East Coast
B. Plans for Victory
• Allies plan to defeat the Axis powers by first
defeating Hitler then focusing on Japan.
• Stalin wants the U.S. and GB to distract Hitler
by reopening the Western Front, they instead
attack the Mediterranean
• Allies begin by invading North Africa with
Operation Torch in November 1942
• Success against the Axis powers will lead to an
invasion of Italy
• July 1943, Allies
invade Italy
• Will not be able to
capture b/c Hitler
sends Nazi troops
to help Italians.
• Fighting continues
until 1945.
• Allies decide to
reopen the Western
Front.
C. Victory in Europe
• General Dwight
Eisenhower named the
Supreme Commander of
the Allied Forces in the
European Theater
• Operation Overlord (DDay) – massive
amphibious attack of
Normandy, France on
June 6, 1944.
• It will successfully
liberate France from
Nazi occupation.
• Battle of the Bulge (Dec 1944)– Last German
offensive in the Ardennes– Germany loses.
• Allies now marching east toward Germany,
while the Soviets marching from the USSR.
• Hitler
commits
suicide April
30, 1945
• May 7, 1945
Germany
surrenders
• May 8, 1945
– VE Day
(Victory in
Europe Day)
D. Victory in the Pacific
• Allies have slowly been
capturing Japanese
controlled islands since
1943
• Iwo Jima – Allies need a
airbase from which an attack
can be launched. Attack Iwo
Jima in February 1945.
• Difficult attack b/c of heavy
fortifications and tunnel
system.
• Allies ultimately win.
• Battle of Okinawa (April 1945) – captured by
the U.S.
• Now the Allies are within striking distance of
Japan and are planning an invasion of the
Japanese mainland.
• The invasion doesn’t happen.
• Japan will surrender on August 14, 1945 (VJ
Day)
• The final peace papers are signed on Sept. 2,
1945 – the official end of WWII.