Transcript An Allied Victory!

An Allied Victory!
The New Allied Powers
 After Pearl
Harbor,
Churchill &
FDR met to
discuss a plan
of action.

Stalin wanted
them to open a
front in France.
This would force
Germany to
fight a 2 Front
war.
Allies Strike Back
 While Churchill & FDR
agreed with Stalin, they
wanted to strike in
Northern Africa first.
 This
left the USSR alone
fighting off the Germans.
 Britain and the U.S.
sent supplies to the
USSR in order to help
out.
Allies Strike Back
 In 1942, Britain sent an army
led by General Bernard
Montgomery.

The army was able to push Rommel’s
Afrika Korps back.
 On November 8th, 1942 the U.S.
launched Operation Torch by
sending over 100,000 troops led by
Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Caught between the US & Britain, the
Afrika Korps was crushed by May of 1943
Invasion of Italy
 As the German soldiers
spend yet another
winter in the USSR,
Stalin continues to urge
the British and the
Americans to invade
France.
 FDR
& Churchill decide to
invade Italy instead. They
start with Sicily on July
10th, 1943.
Invasion of Italy
 The invasion of Italy
toppled Mussolini’s
rule.
 By
September 3rd, the
Germans stepped in but
the Allies fought back!
 Fighting in Italy
continued until Germany
fell in May of 1945.
D-Day
 Finally in May of 1944, the Allies were ready to
invade France.
 Thousands
of planes, ships, tanks and over 3 million
troops waited for the call to invade at Normandy.
 This huge force was led by Dwight D. Esienhower
D-Day
 Our strategy:
 We
had a fake army set
up in the French
seaport of Calais.
 Operation Overlord
was launched on
June 6th, 1944.
 It
is known as the
largest land & sea
attack in history!
Moving Toward Victory
 By September, the Allies had liberated France,
Belgium, & Luxembourg!
 Now it was time to focus on Germany.
Moving Toward Victory
 As Britain & U.S.
marched toward
Germany from the west,
the USSR was advancing
on the east. Germany is
now fighting a 2-Front
war.
 Hitler wanted to break up
the Allied forces by
attacking in the west.
Battle of the Bulge
 December 16th
German tanks
broke through
weak American
lines near the
Ardennes.
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Even though they were
caught off guard, the
Allies were able to
push the Germans
back.
V-E Day
 By April 25th, 1945 Berlin
was surrounded by the
Allies. Hitler was hiding out
in his underground
headquarters.
 On April 30th, He and his
newlywed wife committed
suicide.
 https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=BHirhpr9ArE
 May 9th was celebrated as
Victory in Europe Day
Still Fighting in the Pacific
 By the Fall of 1944, the Allies were
island-hopping closer and closer to
Japan.
 After months of heavy losses,
Marines invaded Iwo Jima in March
of 1945 & within a month the U.S.
forces invaded Okinawa.
The Next Step
 The next logical step would
be to invade Japan.
Truman was advised that
an invasion could cost the
Allies half a million lives.
 Instead Truman decides to
drop the A-Bomb to end
the war quickly.
Atomic Bomb

It was tested in New Mexico
 On August 6th, 1945 the A-Bomb was dropped on
Hiroshima.
 3 days later it was dropped on Nagasaki.

Japan finally surrendered on Sept. 2nd