1. Did you know
Clothing issued to soldiers had the label “government issue” in them. Soldiers came to be known as “????”

2. END OF WAR IN EUROPE
List Major Event :
Description/significance:

4. Battle of Stalingrad February 1943
90,000 German troops surrendered (only 5,000 of them returned after the war)
Battle of Stalingrad was a MAJOR turning

5. ITALY
In 1943, the Allies invaded Italy from North Africa, eventually liberating Rome from Nazi control in June of 1944.

6. D-Day June6, 1944

7. Current Political Map of Europe
Borders & Countries may be different
From WWII

9. Operation Overlord,
General Eisenhower, commander -Allied forces in Europe.

10. Normandy France, known as D-Day, which involved over 3 million Allied forces.

12. At Utah Beach

13. Crossed rifles - tribute to this fallen soldier.

14. Omaha Beach

15. June 1944 While D-day Invasion takes place, Red Army moves into E
June While D-day Invasion takes place, Red Army moves into E. Europe.
Oct Allies liberate France and Belgium
Nov Election FDR & Truman defeat Dewey & Bricker

16. Battle of the Bulge (Wacht am Rhine)
Dec. 16, 1944 thru Jan. 25, 1945

17. Battle of the Bulge
" Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. "   General George S. Patton

18. Allied Line

19. Shootout! The Game Trailer: Battle of the Bulge
Importance? – Germany exhausts much of its resources,
weapons and manpower in this last ditch effort.
Shootout! The Game Trailer: Battle of the Bulge

20. Battle Facts The coldest, snowiest weather “in memory”
Over a million men, 500,000 Germans, 600,000 Americans (more than fought at Gettysburg) and 55,000 British-French
and Canadians.
100,000 German casualties, killed, wounded or captured.
81,000 American casualties, including 23,554 captured and 19,000 killed. *
The Malmedy Massacre, where 86 American soldiers were murdered, was the worst atrocity committed against American troops during the course of the war in Europe.

22. American soldiers photographed in the Ardennes during the Battle of the Bulge.
American soldiers leading German prisoners

24. The Yalta Conference Feb. 1945 Yalta, Ukraine
Main Goal: To plan the post-war world

27. Major Points Germany and Berlin split into “zones”
German demilitarization
German reparations
Free Elections for Poland/E. Europe
USSR will join UN
and war against Japan

29. President Roosevelt Dies
Died on April 12, 1945
VP Harry S Truman becomes President.

30. Victory in Europe
·Soviets take berlin May 2
· Adolf Hitler committed suicide on April 30.
Germany officially surrendered on May 8.

31. · On May 8
V-E Day (Victory in Europe).

33. Nuremberg Trials International Military Tribunal
held trials for war criminals in Nuremberg
22 Nazi leaders tried=3 were acquitted, 7 given prison sentences, 12 sentenced to death
Later more trials occurred with 107 prison sentences and 24 more sentenced to death
Similar trials were held in Japan

35. “The wrongs we seek to condemn and punish have been so calculated, so malignant and so devastating that civilization cannot tolerate their being ignored because it cannot survive their being repeated.”
Robert Jackson
Chief Counsel for the U.S at the Nuremburg Trials