Transcript Tied Turns in Europe

Tied Turns in Europe
• After the attacks on Pearl,
Roosevelt & Churchill met to
develop a joint war policy
• Stalin wanted support from
the Allies and to open a
second front
• Allies began to strike at
North Africa & Southern
Europe
North Africa Campaign
• Bernard Montgomery (Monty) is sent
by Britain to lead troops in Egypt
• Germans were entrenched at El
Alamein, Egypt
• British could not go around, Monty
goes through them in a frontal attack
• October 23rd, the Battle of El Alamein
takes place
• British took the Germans by surprise
• Rommel’s army defeated by Nov. 4th
• Rommel retreats west
Operation Torch
• Allied forces (mostly American)
landed at Morocco & Algeria
• 100,000 Allied troops attack
• Led by Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower
• Rommel caught between Monty
and Eisenhower, was crushed in
May 1943
Battle of Stalingrad
• After the Germans stalled in
Russia, Hitler sends his 6th
Army in Summer of 1942
• Goal to capture Stalingrad
• Luftwaffe started nightly
bombings on Aug. 22, 1942
• Stalin told his leaders to
defend the city to the death
• By Nov., Germans controlled
90% of the city
Battle of Stalingrad
• Soviet troops outside the city
launched a counterattack
• They trapped the Germans
inside the city and cut them
off from their supplies
• Feb. 2, 1943 German troops
surrendered to the Soviets
• Stalingrad was 99% destroyed
• 1 million Soviet’s dead
• Germans now defensive
Invasion of Italy
• Stalin continued to push the
Allies to invade France
• FDR & Churchill decide to go
after Italy
• July 10th they attack Sicily
• Mussolini arrested July 25th
• By Sept. 3rd Italy surrenders
• Germany seizes control
Northern Italy
• Mussolini arrested again and
shot and hung in Milan