1. The Allied Victory HSCE 7.2.3Ch. 32 sec. 4
*Dec. 22, Churchill & FDR met at White House to develop war strategy…
--Stalin asked for help w/ Germans & open a 2nd front
--Force Hitler to fight 2-front war & kill him that way
--FDR agreed
*Britain & U.S. hit North Africa & S. Europe first
--Stalin is upset & wanted France invaded first----USSR had to hold out on their own…..millions of Russians died waiting for the other Allies…..

3. *The North Africa Campaign---
-Rommel (Desert Fox) had taken Egypt
--Brits sent in Gen. Montgomery---Monty took Germans by surprise (Oct. 1942) & pushed the Afrika Korps west….
--Nov Americans land in Morocco & Algeria w/ 100 K troops, led by Dwight D. Eisenhower---Rommel was caught btwn. the Americans & Brits = Afrika Korps defeated in May 1943!

5. *The Battle of Stalingrad--- Aug. 23, 1942
--Luftwaffe did bombing raids that virtually destroyed the city & set fires everywhere
--Stalin told his generals to defend the city to the death
--Nov. 1942—Germans controlled 90% of the city
--Winter---Soviets closed Germans inside the city, cut them off
--Germ. general begged for retreat—AH refused!!!!
--Feb ,000 half-starved Germans surrendered to Soviets---90 K out of 330 K were all that was left
*Stalingrad cost Soviets 1 MILLION troops & ruined 99% of the city!!!
*Germans NOW on the defensive----Soviets pushing Westward!

7. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0RIYCm7zNo Stalingrad

8. *Stalin wanted Brits & Americans to invade France….
--July 1943—captured Italy first
--Germans regained N. Italy & put Mussolini back in charge
--May Italian resistance fighters found Mussolini disguised as a Germ. soldier & shot him, then hung his body in Milan for all to see

9. *Mobilizing for War---U.S. engaged in Total War…
-factories converted from peacetime production to war production (Ford Motor Co.) (Typewriter co. made armor piercing shells)
-Shortage of consumer goods—meat, tires, sugar, gas, nylon stockings, soap = rationing
-young people collected scrap metal & glass
*Limits on civil rights--- fear of Japanese after Pearl Harbor
-seen as the enemy
-FDR issued order to intern all Jap. Ams. Into camps b/c they were seen as threat to the country
-2/3 were born in America & were true citizens

10. *Victory in Europe —Allies begin to secretly plan for the invasion of Europe thru German controlled France
*The D-Day Invasion---June 6, 1944
-1000s of planes, ships, tanks, landing craft, & more than 3 million troops involved in attack
-planned to strike the coast of Normandy
-Germs. knew it was coming, but didn’t know where
-Allies set up a dummy army in Calais to throw off Germans
-Largest land & sea attack in history
-w/in a month, despite HUGE losses, the Allies broke thru the German lines into France
-By Sept. France, Belgium, & Luxembourg were FREE from Hitler

11. *Battle of the Bulge---Hitler getting pinched by Allies from the east & west (Dec. 1945)
-last German counterattack in the west
-split up Allied lines & cut off supply lines
-in Ardennes forest, Germs. attacked & caught Allies off guard
-Allies pushed back & Germany had no reinforcements….war was all but over for the Nazis
*Germany’s Unconditional Surrender
-March = Allies roll into Germany
-April = 3 mill. troops from the west, 6 mill. from the east surround Berlin
-April 29, 1945 = Hitler marries long-time gf, Eva Braun
--next day, they commit suicide & their bodies burned
Eva & Adolf

12. *Victory in the Pacific--- Fall of 1944—Allies get ready for Japan
-Japanese Navy fought the Battle of Leyte Gulf in hopes to destroy the U.S. fleet-----the Japanese got beat horribly!!!!
-Kamikazes---desperate….used Japanese suicide pilots
-U.S. captured Iwo Jima, Okinawa = cost Americans 1000s of lives & the Japanese 100K + lives
-Truman heard an invasion of Japan could cost up to 500 K lives! Had a new type of weapon = atomic bomb
-HST warned the Japanese = surrender or be massively bombed…..no reply
-Aug. 6, 1945 = atomic bombed dropped on Hiroshima
-Aug. 9 = bombed dropped on Nagasaki
*Japanese formal surrender was Sept. 2, 1945
**WWII was OVER…..