Two Fronts The Allies planed to weaken Germany by fighting them on both fronts from France and Russia General Bernard Montgomery Britain and General Dwight Eisenhower US led troops in North Africa ID: 514459
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The Allies are VictoriousSlide2
Two Fronts
The Allies planed to weaken Germany by fighting them on both fronts (from France and Russia).
General Bernard Montgomery (Britain) and General Dwight Eisenhower (US) led troops in North Africa.Slide3
Two Fronts
A harsh winter helped Russia fight off Germany at the end of the war.
The Allied conquest of Sicily got Mussolini out of power.Slide4
Americans
American Industries converted peacetime operations to wartime production
Automobile factories made tanks, typewriter companies made armor-piercing shells
Meat, Sugar, Tires, Gasoline, Nylon stocking, laundry soap
All of these things were rationedSlide5
Americans
Following the attack at Pearl Harbor many Japanese-Americans were forced into Internment CampsSlide6
Allies
Allied forces landed on the coast of Normandy on D-Day.
France, Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands were liberated following D-Day.
After the Battle of the Bulge the Allies surrounded and cut off BerlinSlide7
Allies
General Eisenhower accepted the unconditional surrender from the Third Reich.
Roosevelt didn’t know WWII’s outcome because he died suddenly a month before the war’s end.
V-E Day is May 8, 1945Slide8
Pacific
Kamikaze – Japanese suicide pilots
Invading Japan would cost the Allies half a million lives
Truman found out about the Manhattan Project when he became president after Roosevelt’s death
The 2 cities that were bombed with the A-bomb were Hiroshima & Nagasaki. Slide9
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