16.4. Strategy. North Africa. Italy. France. Germany. Pacific . North Africa. General Montgomery. El Alamein. German retreat. Rommel escapes. Operation Torch. Allies invade Morocco. General Eisenhower. ID: 438558 Download Presentation
16.4. Strategy. North Africa. Italy. France. Germany. Pacific . North Africa. General Montgomery. El Alamein. German retreat. Rommel escapes. Operation Torch. Allies invade Morocco. General Eisenhower.
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Slide1
The Allied Victory
16.4
Slide2
Strategy
North AfricaItalyFranceGermanyPacific
Slide3
North Africa
General MontgomeryEl AlameinGerman retreatRommel escapesOperation TorchAllies invade MoroccoGeneral EisenhowerMay 1943
Slide4
Stalingrad
August 1942-February 1943
Russian counterattack
Germans on defensive, retreating to
Germany
Turning point
Slide5
Italy
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
Slide6
Home Front
Total war
Women in factories
Shortage of consumer goods
Rationing
Propaganda
Limit civil rights
Japanese
Relocation camps
Slide7
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
Slide8
Victory in Europe V-E Day
Hitler fighting a 2 front war
Counterattack in the West
Battle of the Bulge
Belgium
Ardennes forest
Slide9
Victory in Europe V-E Day
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
Slide10
Victory in the Pacific
Japanese in retreat fall 1944Leyte: PhilippinesKamikazes startedIwo Jima: March 1945, Mt. SuribachiOkinawa: April 1945, 350 miles from Japan12,000 Americans dead
Slide11
Japanese Surrender
Manhattan Project
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
