Transcript the war in north africa and europe

SECTION 3
THE WAR IN NORTH AFRICA AND EUROPE
A DESPERATE SITUATION
A DESPERATE SITUATION
BY LATE 1941, THE AXIS POWERS PUSHED THE
ALLIES NEARLY TO THE BREAKING POINT
 AXIS POWERS OCCUPIED GREECE &
YUGOSLAVIA
 AXIS POWERS WERE ADVANCING IN NORTH
AFRICA
 FDR AND CHURCHILL MET IN WASHINGTON DC
AND DECIDED TO WAIT ON AN INVASION
AGAINST JAPAN
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A DESPERATE SITUATION
IN JANUARY OF 1942 CHINA AND THE USSR
AGREED TO HELP DEFEAT THE AXIS POWERS AND
TO NOT MAKE A SEPARATE PEACE AGREEMENT
 SONAR WAS CREATED BY THE ALLIES TO HELP
PROTECT SHIPS
 NEWER LONG-RANGE BOMBERS HELPED
PROTECT OUR SHIPS AS WELL
 ALLIES STARTED MAKING BOMBING RUNS INTO
GERMANY AND TRYING TO KNOCK OUT
FACTORIES, MILITARY TARGETS, AND RAILROADS
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NORTH AFRICA AND ITALY
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SEPT OF 1940, ITALIAN FORCES ATTACKED EGYPT
FROM LIBYA
AFTER THE SUEZ CANAL
 BRITISH RESISTED
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ERWIN ROMMEL
LEADER OF GERMAN’S TANK CORPS IN AFRICA
 AKA THE DESERT FOX
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BERNARD MONTGOMERY

LEADER OF BRITAIN’S TANK
CORPS IN AFRICA
NORTH AFRICA AND ITALY
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BATTLE OF EL ALAMEIN
 WHERE
MONTGOMERY STOPPED ROMMEL’S
ADVANCEMENT
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DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER
 LEADER
OF THE US TANK CORPS
 MASTER STRATEGIST
 ABLE TO EVENTUALLY DEFEAT ROMMEL IN 1943
AND HE THEN ESCAPED TO EUROPE
NORTH AFRICA AND ITALY
RESULTED IN ITALY AS THE NEXT DESTINATION
FOR THE ALLIES
 CHURCHILL CALLED ITALY “SOFT UNDERBELLY OF
EUROPE”
 JULY OF 1943 ALLIES TROOPS LANDED IN SICILY
 BY SEPT THE ALLIES LANDED ON THE MAINLAND
 AS THE ALLIES ADVANCED, MUSSOLINI WAS IN
SERIOUS TROUBLE AND HITLER CAME TO SAVE
HIM WITH 1000s OF GERMAN SOLDIERS
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NORTH AFRICA AND ITALY
FIGHTING THEN RAGED ON FOR MONTHS WITH
GERMANY’S HELP
 BY JUNE 1944, ROME WAS FINALLY CAPTURED
 APRIL 1945, MUSSOLINI WAS CAPTURED AND
KILLED BY ITALIAN RESISTANT FIGHTERS
 BY MAY 1945, THE GERMANS WERE PUSHED
OUT OF ITALY
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TURNING POINTS
EARLY 1943 THE ALLIES HAD BEGUN THEIR
FINAL PUSH TO DEFEAT THE AXIS POWERS
 BATTLE OF STALINGRAD
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 BLOCK
BY BLOCK BATTLE IN THE CITY
 GERMANS SURRENDERED IN JANUARY OF 1943
 OVER 200,000 GERMANS DIED DURING THIS
BATTLE
TURNING POINTS
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KURSK
 HUGE
TANK BATTLE IN THE SOVIET UNION
 GERMANY VS. USSR
 GERMANS LOST
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GEORGE C. MARSHALL
 FDR’S
TOP MILITARY ADVISOR
 PUT GENERAL EISENHOWER IN CHARGE OF AN
ALLIED INVASION OF FRANCE
TURNING POINTS
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D-DAY
 ALLIED
INVASION OF GERMAN OCCUPIED FRANCE
 STARTED ON JUNE 6, 1944
 WAS THE LARGEST SEA AND LAND INVASION IN
HISTORY
 LANDED IN NORMANDY, FRANCE
 BY THE END OF THE FIRST DAY, OVER 155,000
ALLED SOLDIERS WERE IN FRANCE
TURNING POINTS

OMAR BRADLEY
 GENERAL
IN CHARGE OF TAKING THE BEACHES
AND PUSHING INLAND
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GEORGE S. PATTON
 TANK
COMMANDER FOR THE US THAT BROKE
THROUGH THE GERMAN LINES IN JULY
TURNING POINTS
ALLIED SOLDIERS WERE NOW ALSO PUSHING
NORTHWARD FROM ITALY THROUGH
SOUTHERN FRANCE
 FRANCE WOULD NOW SOON BE FREE AGAIN
 BY AUGUST OF 1944, PARIS WAS ONCE AGAIN
FREE
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THE BATTLE OF THE BULGE
DECEMBER OF 1944, HITLER’S LAST
OFFENSIVE OF THE WAR TOOK PLACE
 DESPARATE ATTEMPT TO STOP THE ALLIES
 WAS IN THE ARDENNE FOREST
 ATTACKED THE US FORCES IN THIS AREA
 US SUFFERED OVER 77,000 CASUALTIES
 WE EVENTUALLY WON THE BATTLE AND
PUSHED THE GERMANS BACK
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