3. Axis Powers in 1942

4. Battle of Stalingrad: Winter of 1942-1943 German ArmyRussian Army 1,011,500 men1,000,500 men 10,290 artillery guns13,541 artillery guns 675 tanks894 tanks 1,216 planes1,115 planes

5. The North Africa Campaign: The Battle of El Alamein, 1942 Gen. Ernst Rommel, The “Desert Fox” Gen. Bernard Law Montgomery (“Monty”)

6. The Italian Campaign [“Operation Torch”] : Europe’s “Soft Underbelly” Allies plan assault on weakest Axis area - North Africa - Nov. 1942-May 1943 George S. Patton leads American troops Germans trapped in Tunisia - surrender over 275,000 troops.

7. The Battle for Sicily: July, 1943 General George S. Patton For the first time during the war American soldiers are fighting on European soil. Goals: make Mediterranean safe for shipping, remove Italy from the war, divert German troops from combat on the Russian front

8. Invasion of Sicily… Roosevelt calls it “the beginning of the end” In September, the Allies invade the Italian mainland… and the Italian government surrenders quickly (although German troops would fight in Italy for many months) Gave experience for their next massive amphibious assault in June 1944

9. George C. Scott Playing General Patton in the 1968 Movie, “Patton” Tank Warfare North Africa, Sicily. Later, Patton would be ordered to move towards the German border…his 3 rd Army advances so fast they run out of fuel and supplies

10. The Battle of Monte Casino: February, 1944

11. The Allies Liberate Rome: June 5, 1944

12. Gen. Eisenhower Gives the Orders for D-Day [“Operation Overlord”]

13. D-Day (June 6, 1944)

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

15. July 20, 1944 Assassination Plot Major Claus von Stauffenberg

16. July 20, 1944 Assassination Plot 1. Adolf Hitler 2. Field Marshall Wilhelm Keitel 3. Gen Alfred von Jodl 4. Gen Walter Warlimont 5. Franz von Sonnleithner 6. Maj Herbert Buchs 7. Stenographer Heinz Buchholz 8. Lt Gen Hermann Fegelein 9. Col Nikolaus von Below 10. Rear Adm Hans-Erich Voss 11. Otto Gunsche, Hitler's adjutant 12. Gen Walter Scherff (injured) 13. Gen Ernst John von Freyend 14. Capt Heinz Assman (injured) E-mail this to a friend-mail this to a friend

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

18. U. S. Troops in Paris, 1944

19. French Female Collaborators

20. The Battle of the Bulge: Hitler’s Last Offensive Dec. 16, 1944 to Jan. 28, 1945

21. Battle of the Bulge- Dec.16, 1944- Jan. 21, 1945 American troops are nearing victory and driving towards German border. German army seems near collapse, but strike without warning and smash through Allied defenses. The “bulge” is a 50 mile deep surge through the American line. Desperate fighting… ultimately won by the Americans in January

22. Yalta: February, 1945 FDR wants quick Soviet entry into Pacific war. FDR & Churchill concede Stalin needs buffer, FDR & Stalin want spheres of influence and a weak Germany. Churchill wants strong Germany as buffer against Stalin. FDR argues for a ‘United Nations’.

23. Mussolini & His Mistress, Claretta Petacci Are Hung in Milan, 1945

24. US & Russian Soldiers Meet at the Elbe River: April 25, 1945

25. Horrors of the Holocaust Exposed

26. Crematoria at Majdanek Entrance to Auschwitz: Work Makes You Free Horrors of the Holocaust Exposed

27. Slave Labor at Buchenwald Eli Wiesel

28. Horrors of the Holocaust Exposed Mass Graves at Bergen-Belsen