Transcript The Allies are Victorious

Do Now & Objective
Objective
analyze Allied war plans and key battles to determine their effect on
the war
Do Now
• Looking at the map of
German occupied Europe,
what would be your plan
to invade and defeat
Hitler?
The Allies are Victorious
Chapter 32 Section 4
I Allied Plan for Victory & Turning of the Tide
• Stalin wants allies to open front in west to
relieve pressure in the east
• 2 fronts = fighting in 2 regions
• Plan = weaken Germany on 2 fronts  death
blow
• Start attack in N Africa angers Stalin-wanted
France
• General “Monty” beats “desert fox” 
retreat
• Operation Torch lead by Eisenhower 
destruction of Afrika Korps
• After winter is over in Russia  Hitler
sending troops to seize oil fields & to
capture Stalingrad = Major industrial
center
Battle of Stalingrad
• Luftwaffe destroys city but Russians
ordered not to retreat
• Russia counters but German’s ordered
not to retreat
• Battle of Stalingrad = TURNING POINT
of war
• Germany took too many losses and
could only defend & retreat from this
point on
Italian Campaign
• Allies attack Italy 
toppling of Mussolini
• Mussolini fired by King 
but back by Hitler
• Allies enter & Mussolini
captured
• Shot & hung in Milan
square
II Life on Allied Home Fronts
• US convert peacetime factories to
wartime production  shortage of
consumer goods
• Millions of Americans working in
war industries (women)
• Allied powers propaganda to
inspire more effort on home front
• Also prejudice prop after Pearl
Harbor
• Japanese Internment
III Allied Victory in Europe
• D-Day = day of the invasion of France at Normandy beaches
• Eisenhower in charge of Operation Overlord
• Fake invasion fort at Calias
http://www.youtube.com/wat
ch?v=pCLJhxfj608 – D Day
invasion
• From France they head to Germany
from the west
• Hitler orders large counterattack in
west to split allied troops
• Broke into American lines giving it
the name Battle of the Bulge
• Allies eventually win  Hitler’s losses
lead him to only be able to retreat
from that point on
• Hitler & his wife commit suicide
• Eisenhower accepts unconditional
surrender from the Third Reich
• V-E Day = victory in Europe Day
• V-E day marks end of fighting in Europe
but fighting still in the Pacific theater
Battle of Leyte Gulf
• Japanese risk entire fleet to destroy the
American fleet
• Japanese suffered huge loss  could
no longer effectively fight  Kamikaze
• Iwo Jima  Iconic photo raising the
flag
• Manhattan Project  A-bomb used in
Hiroshima & Nagasaki  Japanese
surrender