1. WWII- America at War

4. U.S.A. as a Supplier Neutrality Acts Began an Arms Embargo.
The US would not provide weaponry or munitions to anyone.
Cash and Carry Policy 1939
Sends aid to allies.
Finally: Lend Lease Act Passed 1941
Why?
Allies in trouble
Fear of war spreading to US

5. The Arsenal of Democracy
Detroit symbolizes the U.S. automobile industry, during World War II
Stood for all American industry’s conversion from civilian goods to war material.
The label “Arsenal of Democracy” was coined by Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt

6. EUROPEAN FRONT: Before U.S. Enters the War
BATTLE OF BRITAIN 1940
Hitler knew he couldn’t defeat the British Navy
Began this battle as an air war (Luftwaffe)
Worked well at first…
British develop superior aircraft
Begin bombing German cities while Germany bombed England at night.

7. Battle of the Atlantic
German attacking American ships to stop the supply of food and war materials that were going to Great Britain and Soviet Union.
Allies start using convoys.
Sonar/Radar Save the Day
United States starts shipbuilding program. (140 per month)

9. WHERE DO WE START?
EUROPE
NORTH AFRICA
ASIA (PACIFIC)

10. Hitler Was Everywhere!

11. FRONTS EUROPE: PACIFIC: ALLIES TAKE ON GERMANY: GOAL: TO DEFEAT THEM
DEFENSIVE
DEFEAT NAZIS FIRST

12. Leaders George Patton General Dwight Eisenhower
Understood Ground Tactics
General Dwight Eisenhower
Leader of entire military

13. Goals: Destroy Their Means and Will
Fuel
Supplies
Factories
Will
Take their land

14. EUROPEAN FRONT: U.S. Enter the War
MAJOR BATTLES: Battle of Stalingrad
-SOVIETS BATTLE GERMANS AT STALINGRAD- AUGUST
Bloodiest standoff on the war
Over one million casualties: 199 days
Allies decided to let Russia fight on their own
THIS DECISION WILL COST THE U.S. FUTURE RELATIONS WITH SOVIETS.

15. WHAT DO I NEED TO KNOW?
NAZIS CONTINUE TO FIGHT THROUGH AIR ATTACKS 1943 & 1944
AMERICA AND THE ALLIES NEED TO GAIN TERRITORY IN EUROPE
OPERATION OVERLORD: DRIVE THE NAZIS OUT OF FRANCE AND HEAD THEM TOWARDS DEFEAT AT HOME

16. D-DAY NORMANDY, FRANCE (D-DAY) LARGEST AMPHIBIOUS INVASION
JUNE 6, 1944
*Code Breakers intercept Axis correspondence*
150,000 ALLIED SOLDIERS
600 WARSHIPS
BY JULY: ALLIED FORCES IN FRANCE WAS OVER 1 MILLION
HITLER HESITATES TO FIGHT BACK

17. WHERE DID THIS TAKE PLACE?
60 MILE STRETCH OF NORMANDY COAST (NORTHERN FRENCH COAST)
HITLER CAUGHT UNAWARE: THOUGHT ATTACK WOULD BE FURTHER UP THE COAST AT CALAIS
326,000 SOLDIERS LAND THE FIRST WEEK, 50,000 VEHICLES, 100,000 TONS OF SUPPLIES

18. THE BEACHES
CODE NAMES:
JUNO
GOLD
OMAHA
UTAH
SWORD

19. WHO WAS INVOLVED? AMERICAN LEADER: DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER
GERMAN LEADER: ROMMEL
SOLDIERS
AMERICAN
CANADIAN
BRITISH
GERMAN

21. D-Day
“Do you realize that by the time you wake up in the morning, twenty thousand men may have been killed?”

23. Operation Market Garden
September, 1944
An unsuccessful allied invasion
British General Montgomery
Thought it would end the war early

24. European Front Battle of the Bulge When? – December 16, 1944
Where? – border areas near Luxembourg, France and Germany
Results? – The Germans began a counterattack against the Allies as the Allies attempted to drive the Germans completely out of France.
Importance? – Germans begin retreat signaling their defeat.
First time allies will enter Germany since war started
First time allies will see concentration camps

25. Battle of Berlin April-May, 1945
Hitler and some of his commanders commit suicide before battle is over
Fight continues in the east until Germans can escape to the west and surrender there