Transcript Chapter 17 Section 2

Chapter 17 Section 2
The War for Europe & North Africa
Brainstorm
 You’ve been attacked by Japan,
where do you concentrate your war
efforts, in Europe or the Pacific?
 What is your plan?
Objectives
 1. Summarize the Allies’ plan for
winning
the war
2. ID events in the war in Europe
3. Describe the liberation of Europe
War Plans
 FDR & WC spent three weeks
together coming up with a plan to
defeat the bigger threat, Germany &
Italy.
The Battle of the Atlantic
 German subs along the U.S. Atlantic
trying to cut British life line & starve
them
 1942--month 4/ 87 ships off the
Atlantic Coast
 1942--month 7/ 681 Allied ships sunk
in Atlantic
 1943 –
Destroyers/convoys/radar/sonar have
unbearable effect on U-boats
Battle of Stalingrad
 1941 Winter bogs down Germans
 August 1942 Germans move South
toward Industrial city of Stalingrad
 Stalin orders to hold city at all cost
 9/10 of city taken by house by house
with hand to hand combat but winter
set in again
 1.1 Soviets Die/Germans
surrender/West
North Africa / Operation Torch
 Stalin wants a second Western front
 Eisenhower launches Operation Torch
/ N. Africa
 Allied troops land in Morocco &
Algeria and push eastward against
Rommel the Desert Fox
 Over in 1943
Italian Campaign
 Churchill unlike Americans wants
attack to take place in Italy
 Allies victorious in 1943
 Mussolini arrested by King
 Bloody Anzio for 4 months and future
resistance from Germany until
Germany falls—25k Allies & 30K Axis
casualties
 Tuskegee Airmen & Buffalo Soldiers
D-day or Operation Overlord
 June 6, 1944 Eisenhower led 3 million
Allied troops to invade at Normandy
in Northern France
 Fake army to attack at Calais
 Parachutes first behind German lines
 Largest land-sea air battle
 One month--1M troops, 567K tons of
supplies & 170K vehicles
D-day or Operation Overlord
 Bradley’s air & land bombardment at
St. Lo allows Patton’s army to move
south and liberate Paris which had
been captive for 4 years
 1944 France, Belgium & Luxembourg
free
Battle of the Bulge
 1944 last German offensive at the
Battle of the Bulge (1 month) to
retake German land and break Allies
supply lines & morale
 8 German tank divisions drive into
Allied territory / no prisoners
 Germans lose 120K troops, 600
tanks, 1600 planes
Liberation of Majdanek
 Soviets find and liberate death camp
 1K starving
 German SS troops trying to hide
evidence
 800K pair of shoes found
Victory in Europe Day
April 25, 1945 Soviets storm Berlin
German deserters shot & hanged
Hitler marries Eva Braun
Blames war on Jews & loss of war on
German generals
 Shoots himself/poison/gas/buried
 May 8,1945 V-E day
 FDR dies in April / Truman
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