1. World War II: In Europe

2. Nazi conquest- September 1942

3. North Africa
1940 British and Italian forces clash. Italians are beaten
Enter Germany and General Erwin Rommel “Desert Fox”
Rommel pushes British forces back to Egypt
British troops gets a new commander General Bernard Montgomery.
Montgomery rebuilds the British Army and attacks
Battle of El Alamein Nov. 1942
Montgomery attacks, beats Rommel
Rommel
Montgomery

4. Operation Torch American Forces land in French North Africa
American suffer huge defeat at Kasserine Pass
New General- George Patton
Americans from the West and British from the East force Germany out of Africa
Americans
Americans
British

5. Battle of Stalingrad
The Battle Started in July 1942 and ended in Jan 1943
The German 6th Army is stopped by the Russians
This defeat is the turning point on the Eastern Front.
Considered one to the bloodiest battles of the war. Germany lost 800,000 killed, missing or wounded
Of the 91,000 German that surrendered, only 5,000 made it back home.

6. Invasion of Italy, 1943
Combined British & American invasion of Italy didn’t go very well, but it stretched the German army very thin

7. D-Day – Operation Overlord (June 6th, 1944)
*American and British forces land on the beaches of Normandy, and gain a foothold in France
D-Day – Operation Overlord (June 6th, 1944)

8. *D-Day (June 6, 1944) Pointe du Hoc
It was a nearly 100-meter-high cliff, with perpendicular sides jutting out into the Channel. It looked down on Utah Beach to the left and Omaha Beach to the right. There were six 155mm cannon in heavily reinforced concrete bunkers that were capable of hitting either beach 

9. *D-Day (June 6, 1944)
Airborne Assault
The 82nd and 101st Airborne troops were dropped behind enemy lines to secure important cross roads to prevent the Germans from reinforcing the coast.
The drop was a disaster, troops were dropped all over northern France

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

11. Battle of the Bulge – winter 1944
*German counter-attack against American and British forces
* Despite heavy casualties, the allied line holds
* Last serious Nazi threat

12. The Battle of the Bulge: Hitler’s Last Offensive
Dec. 16, 1944 to Jan. 28, 1945 Hitler tries one last attack to split the Allies
Attack fails due to the Americans that hold on to the town of Bastogne

13. German Defeat
*As Soviet forces approached Berlin, Hitler committed suicide on April 30th, 1945
*Germany surrendered to the allies on May 7th, 1945 (V-E Day)

14. *Hitler Commits Suicide April 30, 1945
Cyanide & Pistols
The Führer’s Bunker
(How did Hitler Die?)
Mr. & Mrs. Hitler

15. *V(ictory-E(urope) Day (May 8, 1945)