Transcript The War in Europe

The War in Europe
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Today's Objectives
1)Identify how WWII
looked like in 1942.
2)Examine the
Holocaust
3)Discuss how the Allies
defeated Germany
Allied Commanders of WWII
- Dwight D.
Eisenhower
- George S. Patton
- Bernard
Montgomery
- George C.
Marshall
- Benjamin O.
Davis
Battle of the Atlantic (1939-1945)
• Allied fleets vs.
German U-Boats
• Allies use Convoy
system to beat
Germans.
Getting in to Europe
• Operation Torch
• Allies invaded North Africa.
• Wanted control of Mediterranean, be able to
strike Southern Europe.
Invading Italy (1943)
- Operation Husky
- Led by Gen. George Patton
- Southern Italy taken
- Rome falls ( May 25th, 1944 )
- Mussolini is killed by Italians!
- Germans occupy northern half
Of country.
The Liberation of France
- Operation Overlord (June 6th,
1944)
- Western Allies had to prepare for
over 1 year for landing.
- 160,000 soldiers (27,000
Paratroopers)
- 5,000 ships
- Allied success, 10,000 Allied
soldiers die.
The Yalta Conference (Feb 4th, 1945)
- Demanded
unconditional
surrender of Axis
powers.
- Promised Democratic
elections in all
European countries
post-war.
The Allied Advance in the West
- Paris is liberated ( Aug. 1944 )
- The Battle of the Bulge (Dec.
1944)
-
Last German Offensive
-
It fails.
- Western Allies let Red
Army take Berlin (May 7th,
1945)
The Holocaust (1942-1945)
Holocaust: Targeted
extermination of European
Jews.
Genocide: Deliberate
annihilation of an entire
people.
- “The Final Solution” for
Nazi Germany.
- 12 million killed in total, 6
million Jewish people.