North Africa. Italy. France. Germany. Pacific . North Africa. General Montgomery. El Alamein. German retreat. Rommel escapes. Operation Torch. Allies invade Morocco. General Eisenhower. May 1943. Stalingrad. ID: 755181 Download Presentation
North Africa. Italy. France. Germany. Pacific . North Africa. General Montgomery. El Alamein. German retreat. Rommel escapes. Operation Torch. Allies invade Morocco. General Eisenhower. May 1943. Stalingrad.
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Slide1
The Allied Victory
16.4
Slide2
Strategy
North Africa
Italy
FranceGermanyPacific
Slide3
North Africa
General Montgomery
El Alamein
German retreatRommel escapesOperation Torch
Allies invade Morocco
General Eisenhower
May 1943
Slide4
Stalingrad
August 1942-February 1943
Russian counterattack
Germans on defensive, retreating to GermanyTurning point
Slide5
Italy
Move from North Africa to Sicily
Then to Italy
Mussolini arrested July 1943Italy surrendersMussolini 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 goodsRationingPropaganda
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 WestBattle of the Bulge
Belgium
Ardennes forest
Slide9
Victory in Europe
V-E Day
March: Rhine river in Germany
April 12 FDR diedTruman 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 1944
Leyte: Philippines
Kamikazes startedIwo Jima: March 1945, Mt.
Suribachi
Okinawa: April 1945, 350 miles from Japan
12,000 Americans dead
Slide11
Japanese Surrender
Manhattan Project
General Groves
OppenheimerJuly 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
