Transcript Power Point
• How did the Allies gain victory in Europe?
• Thesis
• War on Multiple Fronts
– Operation Torch (Ike Eisenhower)
– Italy
– Stalingrad
• Mobilization
– Production
– Propaganda
– imprisonment
• Victory
– Operation Overlord
– Battle of the Bulge
– Surrender
• Allies western half of Berlin
• USSR takes eastern half
• Conclusion: How did geography play a role in the Allied victory?
Operation Torch
• American invasion of
North Africa
• Dwight Eisenhower is
named Supreme
Commander of Allied
Forces after invasion
Italy
• Americans and British
go from North Africa to
Italy in 1943
• Fight Italians and
Germans
• Terrain is mountainous
in Northern Italy
Stalingrad
• German army stopped
at city
• Soviets counterattack
and surround Germans
in winter of 1942 - 1943
• German army in retreat
from Eastern Front after
defeat
Production
• US factories
produce items for
war
• Ford makes
military vehicles
• Women work in
place of men
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System
Tanks and SP guns
Artillery
Mortars
Machineguns
Military trucks
Military aircraft total
Fighter aircraft
Attack aircraft
Bomber aircraft
Reconnaissance aircraft
Transport aircraft
Training aircraft
Aircraft carriers
Battleships
Cruisers
Destroyers
Convoy escorts
Submarines
Merchant shipping
Allies
Axis
227,235
52,345
914,683
180,141
657,318
100,000+
4,744,484
1,058,863
3,060,354
594,859
633,072
278,795
212,459
90,684
37,549
12,539
153,615
35,415
7,885
13,033
43,045
5,657
93,578
28,516
155
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13
7
82
15
814
86
1,102
422
1,336
33,993,230
5,000,000+
Propaganda
• Used one sided
information to motivate
the home front
• Rationing
• Limited gas and tires
imprisonment
• Japanese Americans
imprisoned during
World War II
• Soldiers fought for US in
Europe
• Most highly decorated
unit in Europe
Operation Overlord
• Allied invasion of
German occupied
France
• Pas de Calais
• The man from nowhere
Battle of the Bulge
• Last German
offensive of the
war
• Bulge in German
lines
• American supply
lines
Surrender
• Germany
surrenders
• US takes West
• USSR takes
East