Transcript World War II Turn the Tide

World War II
Turn the Tide
Objective: SWBAT explain how the allies changed the momentum during WWII.
Essential Skill: C-7: State implications and consequences.
Northern Africa
• Original plan called for Allied powers to invade Western Europe
• Plan changed at the request of Winston Churchill to secure Africa
first
• British controlled the Suez canal and didn’t want to see it fall under German
control
• Allies pinched the
German and Italian
forces into Tunisia
• 300,000+
surrenders to the
Allies
Sicily and Italy
• After Africa was under control, the Allies
decide to hop across the Mediterranean into
Sicily
• British and US troops push up through Italy
• Hitler has to send forces to help
• 3 front war?
• Mussolini is overthrown and eventually hung
Leningrad and the Soviet Union
• Operation Barbarossa
• Aimed to capture Leningrad and
Moscow
• Stalled and was forced to lay siege to
Leningrad
• Decided to attack further south to
capture Soviet oil fields
• Stalingrad was a big prize since it was
named after his rival
Siege of Leningrad
• September 1941 – January 1944
• Citizens created defenses from wooden barricades, trenches, barbed wire,
and anti-tank ditches
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3000 starved to death daily
Constant bombardment
3,400,000 million Soviet casualties
600,000 German casualties
Operation Overlord: D-Day
• Originally planned for 1942
• Pushed off for N. Africa and Italy
campaigns
• Angers Stalin  He won’t forget this after
the war
• June 6th ,1944: Allied forces storm the
beaches of Normandy
• Needed to create a foothold in France
World War II
End of the War
Objective: SWBAT explain how the Allies won WWII.
Essential Skill: C-7: State implications and consequences.
Liberation of Paris
• After D-Day assault, Allied forced led by Gen. George Patton broke through
the German defenses, moving deeper into France
• Us forces were landing in southern France
• French resistance forces gained confidence with the Allies success
• Germany felt the pressure
• Surrounded on all sides, the Germans surrendered
• Allied forces entered Paris on August 25th
Battle of the Bulge
• Germany retreating as startling pace
• Decide to throw everything they had at the
Allies
• Battle lasted for a month
• 90,000 Allied casualties
• 100,000+ German casualties
• Delayed Allied advance from the west for 6
weeks
• War was inevitably coming to a close
Hitler Suicide
Yalta Conference
• Yalta: February 1945
• Roosevelt, Churchill,
and Stalin met to
discuss the end of
the war
• Split German into 4
occupation zones,
self-determination
for eastern Europe
Potsdam Conferences
• Potsdam: July 17 – August 2, 1945
• Truman (Roosevelt dead), Atlee (New English PM), Stalin
• Germany split into 4 zones, demilitarization, control over military
industry
• Truman mentions a “powerful new weapon” to Stalin
• Stalin already knows and is wary of future conflict
• Potsdam Declaration: July 26th, 1945
• Called for the surrender of Japan
Atomic Bomb
• After the urging of Albert Einstein, FDR started the Manhattan
Project
• The best Allied scientists gathered in the US to create atomic weapons
• First Atom-bomb tested in Alamogordo, NM
• August 6th and 8th, 1945: Atomic bombs are dropped on
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
• War had been very bloody. President Truman and other leaders felt that
in order to save American lives, the bomb must be used
Nuremburg Trials
• Nazi and Axis leaders were
tried for “Crimes against
humanity”
• Nearly 200 were tried, with
most being found guilty
• Some received death sentences
• Others imprisoned
• Leaders are accountable for
their actions in war