Transcript European Theater PowerPoint

European Theatre
ESSENTIAL QUESTION: How were the United States and its Allies able to achieve
victory in WWII?
TEKS and Objectives
We will…
I will…
(7B) evaluate the domestic and
international leadership of FDR during
WWII
Summarize the United States
contributions to WWII on the European
front
(7D) analyze major issues of WWII
(7E) analyze major event of WWII
(7F) evaluate the military contributions of
WWII leaders
(26F) discuss importance of Congressional
Medal of Honor recipients
The War in Europe
▪ German success
▪ Hitler in control of most of Europe and
North Africa
▪ Battle of Britain
▪ British able to stop German invasion
▪ Soviet Union
▪ Hitler violated non-aggression pack
▪ Invasion of Soviet Union was a huge disaster
▪ Soviet Union switched sides
Who fought in World War II?
Allied Powers (2 Words)
▪ United States
▪ Franklin D. Roosevelt
(President)
▪ Great Britain
▪ Winston Churchill (Prime
Minister)
▪ Soviet Union
▪ Joseph Stalin (Dictator)
Axis Powers (JIG)
▪ Japan
▪ Hideki Tojo (General)
▪ Italy
▪ Benito Mussolini (Dictator)
▪ Germany
▪ Adolf Hitler (Dictator)
The Campaign in Africa and Italy
▪ General George Patton
▪ Senior officer of the U.S. Army
▪ Had participated in expedition
against Pancho Villa
▪ Served in WWI under Pershing
▪ American Third Army
▪ Regiment under Patton’s command
▪ Soldiers must have a “killer instinct”
▪ High survival rates
▪ Very successful in the war
Allies Invade France and Germany
▪ D-Day (June 6, 1944)
▪ 156,000 Allied troops under
General Dwight Eisenhower
▪ Landed on five beaches on the
coast of France at Normandy
▪ Omar Bradley
▪ Lead the first American army into
France
▪ Paris liberated in August
Battle of the Bulge – December 1944
▪ Last German Offensive
▪ Allied troops defeated Germans
▪ U.S., British, and French invaded
Germany from the west
▪ Soviets invaded from the east
▪ Germans surrender (May 1945)
▪ Soviets captured Berlin
▪ Hitler committed suicide
Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient
▪ Vernon Baker
▪ African-American soldier
▪ Slipped through mine fields, barbed
wire, and German defenses
▪ Single-handedly removed 3
machine gun nests, 2 observation
posts, and 2 bunkers
▪ Awarded Congressional Medal of
Honor 52 years later by President
Clinton for heroism in WWII
The Holocaust
▪ Genocide
▪ An effort to murder and entire people or
nationality
▪ “Final Solution”
▪ Hitler’s plan was to exterminate all
European Jews
▪ Concentration Camps
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Built across Europe
Most Jews killed with poison gas
Bodies burned in large ovens
Concentration camps liberated by Allied
forces