1. ALLIES TURN THE TIDE

2. 1942 – TOTAL WAR - ALLIES ECONOMIC FORCES TO THE WAR EFFORT
Airplanes and tanks instead of cars and refrigerators
Food rations
War bond drives
Price and wage regulation
Increased productions ends unemployment
LIMITED RIGHTS
Censored the press
Used propaganda to make war popular
Discrimination against Japanese Americans (some in camps)

3. 1942 Continued “ROSIE THE RIVETER”
Women replace men who have gone to war in millions of war industry jobs (ships, planes, munitions)
Armed Forces Auxiliary Roles – ambulance drivers, decoding messages, and delivering airplanes
Some fought in the war (pilots)

4. 1943 – ALLIES FORGE AHEAD Japanese Navy defeated
Battle of Coral Sea - First attacks from aircraft carriers and U.S. destroys numerous ships
Battle of Midway – fought in the air and destroyed carriers and MANY planes
“Big Three” – Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin
Finish war in Europe first before war in Asia
Roosevelt and Churchill were afraid Stalin wanted to control Europe
Stalin afraid that Roosevelt and Churchill wanted to destroy communism
Did not want to risk breakdown of alliance though

5. 1943 Continued North Africa
Desert Fox (Rommel) vs Eisenhower
Rommel surrendered in May
Combined British and American army vs. Italy
Defeated Italy
Italians overthrew Mussolini and signed armistice
Hitler sent troops which weakened him because forced to fight on another front
Germans defeated at Stalingrad
After their oil fields
Costliest battle of the war
Circled and trapped Germans and they surrendered
Red Army drives Germans out of USSR completely

6. 1944 PUSH TOWARD GERMANY D-Day – June 6, 1944 – Invasion of France
US Paratroopers dropped behind enemy lines
Ferried troops across the English Channel – MANY die
After almost 3 months, Allies enter Paris
Germany experiencing round-the clock bombing
Cripple industries and destroy civilian morale
Dresden and Hamburg (industrial) destroyed
Battle of the Bulge on west side, Russians breaking through on the east side
Hitler support in Germany declining and assassination attempt

8. 1944 Continued YALTA CONFERENCE – 1945, Soviet Union
Big Three meet (distrust again)
Stalin needs to keep control of Eastern Europe
Roosevelt and Churchill favored self-determination
Stalin’s help still needed to win the war against Japan
Russia gets lands in Asia
Germany temporarily divided into 4 zones (governed by British, French, US, and Soviet forces)
Stalin promised to hold free elections in Eastern Europe
Allies eventually split