1. WORLD WAR II 1. WWII IN EUROPE-------Allies vs Axis Powers
Principles we fought for
Big 3 and Military leaders
Strategy:
Get Hitler First
Stalin’s 2nd Front
Unconditional surrender
Turning point battles to 1945
Invasion of North Africa
El Alamein
Stalingrad
Invasion of Sicily and Italy
D-Day invasion----June 6, 1944
Battle of the Bulge
Yalta Conference----Feb. 1945
Three world leaders die in April of 1945
WWII ends in Europe with the Battle for Berlin
Germany surrenders, May 2, 1945
Victory in Europe or VE Day---

2. posters
WAR POSTERS

4. United Nations Allied Powers became the United Nations.
Germans surrender to the United Nations to end the war in Europe

5. AXIS POWERS BY 1942

6. WWII POLITICAL LEADERS
ALLIES AXIS
THE BIG THREE
WINSTON CHURCHILL—Great Britain
FDR---U.S.
JOSEPH STALIN---Soviet Union
BENITO MUSSOLINI ADOLF HITLER HIDEKI TOJO
WWII POLITICAL

7. Big Three BIG THREE Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin FDR
Relationship between the Big Three was “shaky” to say the least…..
“The enemy of my enemy, is my friend”

8. BIG THREE
Big 3
Stalin upset with the FDR and Churchill because they took their time establishing a “2nd Front” in Western Europe while Russian soldiers were being massacred by the Germans………...

9. WAR CONFERENCES Date Place Participants Decisions
Dec to Jan. 1942
June 1942
War Production, shipping, aid for China, diversion of German strength from Eastern Front and a North African invasion.
Washington Conference 1st
2nd
FDR
Winston Churchill Big 2
Plans for invasion of Sicily and to step up Pacific War…D-day invasion in 1944 onto French coast. Unconditional Surrender of Germany
FDR
Winston Churchill Big 2
Jan. 1943
Casablanca Conference
1st time “Big 3” meet. Stalin demands 2nd front onto French coast…. Date of D-day invasion decided… General Eisenhower appointed as commander of Allies
FDR Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Big 3
Nov. 1943
Teheran Conference

10. WWII MILITARY LEADERS 4 Star, US General Dwight Eisenhower
Graduate of West Point
Commanded Allied invasion on North Africa in 1942
Named Supreme Allied Commander and in charge of D-Day.
WWII Military Leaders

11. Tank commander and commander of the 7th Army
WWII MILITARY LEADERS
General George Patton
Graduate of West Point
Tank commander and commander of the 7th Army
Germans feared Patton
“ole blood and guts”
WWII Military Leaders

12. WWII MILITARY LEADERS General Bernard Montgomery
British commanding officer
Defeated Rommel at El Alamein
Patton and Montgomery did not like one another
WWII Military Leaders

13. WWII MILITARY LEADERS German General Erwin Rommel
German tank commander
known as the “Desert Fox”
Implicated in attempt to kill Hitler and would be forced to commit suicide.
WWII Military Leaders

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16. Attack Hitler’s “soft underbelly”

17. Stalin’s 2nd front

18. Attack Hitler’s “soft underbelly”
TURNING POINT BATTLES
1942
Allied invasion of North Africa
El Alamein
Attack Hitler’s “soft underbelly”

19. The North Africa Campaign: The Battle of El Alamein, 1942
Gen. Ernst Rommel, The “Desert Fox”
Gen. Bernard Law Montgomery (“Monty”)

20. Attack Hitler’s “soft underbelly”
TURNING POINT BATTLES
1942
Allied invasion of North Africa
El Alamein
Attack Hitler’s “soft underbelly”
1943
Battle of Stalingrad.

21. Battle of Stalingrad: Winter of 1942-1943
German Army
Russian Army
1,011,500 men
1,000,500 men
10,290 artillery guns
13,541 artillery guns
675 tanks
894 tanks
1,216 planes
1,115 planes
Stalin orders his troops to the “scorched earth policy”
Germans are surrounded at Stalingrad and supply lines are cut by the Russians. Germans surrender to Soviets.

22. Attack Hitler’s “soft underbelly”
TURNING POINT BATTLES
1942
Allied invasion of North Africa
El Alamein
Attack Hitler’s “soft underbelly”
1943
Battle of Stalingrad.
Allied invasion of Sicily

23. The Italian Campaign [“Operation Torch”] : Europe’s “Soft Underbelly”
Allies plan assault on weakest Axis area - North Africa - Nov May 1943
George S. Patton leads American troops
Germans trapped in Tunisia - surrender over 275,000 troops.

24. The Battle for Sicily: June, 1943 General George S. Patton

26. The Allies Liberate Rome: June 5, 1944

28. United Nations Allied Powers became the United Nations.
Germans surrender to the United Nations to end the war in Europe