Allies Turn the Tide

Main Idea Defeat Hitler first in Europe, then Japan

1. December 7, 1941: Japanese Bomb Pearl Harbor; US enters WWII

Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt, Joseph Stalin The “Big Three” Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt, Joseph Stalin

Axis Powers 1942

2. Battle of Stalingrad (winter 1942/1943) USSR defeats Germany Turning point on Eastern Front! German Army Russian Army 1,011,500 men 1,000,500 men 10,290 artillery guns 13,541 artillery guns 675 tanks 894 tanks 1,216 planes 1,115 planes

3. 1942: Allies defeat Germany in North Africa Gen. Erwin Rommel, The “Desert Fox” Gen. Bernard Montgomery (“Monty”)

4. 1942-1943: Italian Campaign Allies work their way up through Italy defeating Germany Italy called the “soft underbelly of Europe”

The Allies Liberate Rome: June 5, 1944

5. June 6, 1944: D-Day Allies attack at Normandy, France Open 2nd front Turning point on Western Front

Gen. Eisenhower gives orders

D-Day: 6 June 1944

Normandy Landing (June 6, 1944) German Prisoners Higgins Landing Crafts

The Liberation of Paris: August 25, 1944 De Gaulle in Triumph!

6. The Holocaust Kristallnacht: night of broken glass, Nazi organized violence against Jews (pogrom)

6. The Holocaust Concentration camps: prison camps where Jews were worked to death by Nazis

6. The Holocaust Final Solution: Hitler’s attempt to exterminate the Jewish population of Europe Over 6 million Jews killed Another 5-7 million killed

7. Winter 1944-1945: Battle of the Bulge Hitler is defeated in his last offensive

Feb 1945: Yalta Conference Big 3 Meet: FDR (US) , Stalin (USSR) and Churchill (GB) FDR wants to create a United Nations USSR promises to: hold democratic elections in Eastern Europe Enter war in the Pacific

Mussolini & His Mistress, Claretta Petacci Hanged in Milan, 1945

Americans and Soviets meet at the Elbe; April 25,1945

Hitler Commits Suicide April 30, 1945 Cyanide & Pistols The Führer’s Bunker Mr. & Mrs. Hitler

8. May 8, 1945: V-E Day!