1. The Allies Are Victorious

2. Allies plan for victory
Dec met to decide strategy for victory
Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin meet at the Yalta Conference. *
Churchill, FDR and Stalin at Yalta meeting

3. Battle for Stalingrad Began August 23, 1942
Luftwaffe went on bombing raids
The turning point in the war between Germany and USSR

4. Stalingrad Stalin demanded troops defend the city at all costs
November - Soviet troops outside the city launched counter attack
Germans were trapped, supplies were cut off, and Hitler refused to allow German troops to retreat
By November 1942, Germans controlled 90% of the city

5. * Active Participation
Name the military strategist who first made the same mistake that Hitler made by invading Russia?
What helped the Russian military in both events? *

6. Invasion of Italy
July 10, 1943
180,000 Allied forces landed on Sicily and captured it
Conquest of Sicily toppled Mussolini from power
September 3rd- Italy surrendered to the Allies
Above -- During the invasion of Sicily, an American cargo ship is hit by a bomb from a German plane and its cargo of munitions explodes, off Gela, Sicily. July (Photo credit: U.S. National Archives)

7. Fate of Mussolini
Mussolini disguised himself as a German soldier, was discovered and shot
His body was hanged in the Milan town square

8. Life on Allied Home Front
Rallied to support the war
Produced weapons and equipment
Factories converted to produce goods for war
By almost 18 million workers in U.S. (mostly women)

9. Civil Rights and the War
Thousands of Japanese Americans were interned in relocation camps based on their ancestry.
: US imprisoned some 31,275 people. Most prisoners were American citizens of Japanese decent

10. D- Day, the Invasion of Normandy D- Day, the Invasion of Normandy
Largest amphibious invasion ever launched in the history of the world.
*Opens a Second European Front giving relief to Russia
Turn the tide of war in the favor of the Allies
June 6, 1944

11. Leaders of D-Day Leaders of D-Day
Field Marshall Montgomery was the overall commander of the Ground forces
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower was the Supreme Allied Commander

12. Field Marshall Erwin Rommel designed the defense for Hitler’s forces.
Leaders of D-Day
Leaders of D-Day
Field Marshall Erwin Rommel designed the defense for Hitler’s forces.
Rommel was the best known of Hitler’s generals, and was nicknamed “The Desert Fox.”
Rommel above

13. D- Day, the Invasion of Normandy D- Day, the Invasion of Normandy
Paratroopers from the 82nd and the 101st Airborne Division were dropped behind enemy lines early in the morning.
Gliders carrying troopers secured bridges and roadways.

14. D- Day, the Invasion of Normandy D- Day, the Invasion of Normandy
The 82nd suffered heavy casualties at St. Mere Eglise.
The “Screaming Eagles” of the 101 also suffered 50% casualties.

15. *This was the second front started in France.
D- Day, the Invasion of Normandy
D- Day, the Invasion of Normandy
*This was the second front started in France.
Success puts us closer to the heart of Germany.
June 6, 1944

16. LST heading for Normandy
D- Day, the Invasion of Normandy
D- Day, the Invasion of Normandy
5 teams assaulted the beaches of Normandy, France.
The Americans came under the heaviest fire on Omaha and Utah beaches.
LST heading for Normandy
June 6, 1944

17. D- Day, the Invasion of Normandy D- Day, the Invasion of Normandy
The Germans were hindered with the following problems:
Bad Weather – and the top generals had left for war games in Paris.
Rommel was gone, it was his wife’s birthday.
Allied Win
Allied Win

18. Hitler was asleep, and had ordered his secretary not to awaken him!
D- Day, the Invasion of Normandy
D- Day, the Invasion of Normandy
German commanders could not release their Panzer divisions for a counter strike without Hitler’s permission.
Hitler was asleep, and had ordered his secretary not to awaken him!
Allied Win
Allied Win

19. Horrible History Don’t Wake Hitler

20. By Aug. 1944, the Allies had liberated:
Liberated Allies
Liberated Allies
By Aug. 1944, the Allies had liberated:
France, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands.
American troops in tank passing the Arc de Triomphe after the liberation of Paris, August 1944.

21. The Last Offensive The Last Offensive The Battle of the Bulge
Hitler launched his final offense in the winter of 1944.
It was a race to the sea, where German forces crashed through Allied lines in the Ardennes Forest.
Delayed allied advance for six weeks
A heavily armed German soldier on the offensive

25. *Allied Victory Over Germany*
Best explanation:
Soviet’s larger army
Americans manufacture more weapons
Germany fighting on several fronts