Transcript Turning Points of WWII

The Allies won
several victories
that would turn
the tide of battle
and push back
the axis powers.
Patten/Kempton
Mepham High School
Global History
• German invasion had already cost Russia over six
million soldiers, half killed and half captured by the
Germans, and a large part of its vast territory and
resources.
• With the help of its arctic winter, it stopped the
exhausted Germans just before Moscow and pushed
them back a bit.
• Hitler stopped listening to his Generals, and decided to
take on Stalingrad
• Hitler wanted to reach Stalingrad itself, and at least
cover it with heavy artillery, so that it will no longer be
an industrial or transportation center.
• The battle of Stalingrad was one of the
costliest of the war. Hitler was
determined to capture Stalin’s
namesake city, and Stalin was equally
determined to save it.
• The Soviets then circled their attackers.
• As winter closed in, soldiers fought for
two weeks straight without a single
building to live in, or without food and
ammunition, with no hope of rescue.
• German commander officially
surrendered early in 1943.
• Approximately 300,000 soldiers were
killed, wounded, or captured.
• 160,000 Allied troops landed
along a 50-mile stretch of heavilyfortified French coastline to fight
Nazi Germany on the beaches of
Normandy, France.
• General Dwight D. Eisenhower
called the operation a crusade in
which “we will accept nothing less
than full victory.”
•More than 5,000 Ships
and 13,000 aircraft
supported the D-Day
invasion, and by day’s
end on June 6, the
Allies gained a foothold in Normandy.
•The D-Day cost was
high -more than 9,000
Allied Soldiers were
killed or wounded -but more than 100,000
Soldiers began the
march across Europe to
defeat the Germans