1. How did Hitler want to purify the German race?
Bell Ringer
How did Hitler want to purify the German race?

2. The allied victory part 1
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3. North Africa Campaign
Stalin asked allies to attack in West (France) to relieve pressure from East (Soviet)
Instead, allies attacked North Africa/Southern Europe
Oct 1942: Battle of El Alamein (surprise) pushed Rommel back
Nov 8: Launched Operation Torch
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower crushed Rommel’s Afrika Korps by May 1943

5. The Battle of Stalingrad
1942: Germans try to seize oil fields and capture Stalingrad
Aug 1942: Battle begins and Luftwaffe bombed nightly
Nov 1942 (winter): Russians counterattacked and trapped Germans/supplies
Feb 1943: 90,000 out of 330,000 Germans surrendered
Germans now on the defensive

12. Invasion of Italy July 1943: Allies capture Sicily
Sept 1943: Italy surrenders
Germany takes northern Italy/puts Mussolini back in power
Allies took most of Italy in 1944
Mussolini killed in 1945
Fighting continues until war ends

13. Home Front Civilians contributed to war effort (total war)
Factories converted
Women worked in factories and as nurses
Rationing
Propaganda
Savings bonds

15. War Limits Civil Rights
Prejudice against Japanese b/c of ancestry
Feb 1942: FDR issues executive order calling for the internment of Japanese Americans
Rounded up and sent to internment camps
Two-thirds were Nisei – native born American citizens