Transcript The Allied Victory - Kenston Local Schools

The Allied Victory
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Strategy
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North Africa
Italy
France
Germany
Pacific
North Africa
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General Montgomery
El Alamein
German retreat
Rommel escapes
Operation Torch
Allies invade Morocco
General Eisenhower
May 1943
Stalingrad
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August 1942-February 1943
Russian counterattack
Germans on defensive, retreating to Germany
Turning point
Italy
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Move from North Africa to Sicily
Then to Italy
Mussolini arrested July 1943
Italy surrenders
Mussolini freed by Nazis goes North
Germany invades Italy to fight the Allies
Rome June 1944
Mussolini shot & hanged
Home Front
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Total war
Women in factories
Shortage of consumer goods
Rationing
Propaganda
Limit civil rights
– Japanese
– Relocation camps
Victory in Europe
V-E Day
• D-Day
– June 6, 1944
– Normandy, France
– Eisenhower planned it
– Make believe army in Calais
– Operation Overlord
– Omaha & Utah: US, 2,700
– General Patton broke through to Paris
– France, Belgium, Luxembourg by September
Victory in Europe
V-E Day
• Hitler fighting a 2 front war
• Counterattack in the West
• Battle of the Bulge
– Belgium
– Ardennes forest
Victory in Europe
V-E Day
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March: Rhine river in Germany
April 12 FDR died
Truman became president
April 25 Soviets in Berlin
April 30 Hitler dead
May 7 Eisenhower accepts surrender
V-E Day
Victory in the Pacific
• Japanese in retreat fall
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• Leyte: Philippines
• Kamikazes started
• Iwo Jima: March 1945,
Mt. Suribachi
• Okinawa: April 1945,
350 miles from Japan
– 12,000 Americans dead
Japanese Surrender
• Manhattan Project
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General Groves
Oppenheimer
July 16, 1945 it worked
Sent ultimatum to Japan
Unconditional surrender
Atomic Bombs Used
August 6, 1945: Hiroshima, 70,000
August 9, 1945: Nagasaki, 70,000
September 2, 1945 surrendered on USS Missouri to
General MacArthur