1. Supreme Commander of US Forces in Europe ( P 780)
V.E. Day : P 783
Battle of the Atlantic: Pg 776
Battle of the Bulge: P 782
Date:
What happened?
Date: __________
Battle b/w German _____& Allied forces. Last German
______. Germans lost ____________________ causing them to ________________
G. Patton
Date:___________
German sub. Attacks caused Allies to form
________. These were escorted by __________________
Stalingrad: Pg 777
Date: Aug. 42 – Jan. 43
Description:
Germany burned the city – controlled 9/10s but the winter enabled soviets to cut Ger. Supply lines
Impact: Turning point of Eastern Front
FYI: German invasion of Soviet Union called Operation Barbarossa
D-Day: Pg
Exact date:
Strategy:
Impact:
Opening of 2nd Allied Front- ( Took 2 years)
Operation Barbarossa
Operation Overlord
Fall of Italy: P 770
Invasion of
German forces led by defeated by Allied forces led by
Operation
Date
Date:
What happened to Mussolini?
Battle of Anzio:
_________________
Supreme Commander of US Forces in Europe ( P 780)
Pg 778

2. ______________main allied commander in Pacific
Iwo Jima/Okinawa Pg
Hiroshima and Nagasaki- P 790
______________main allied commander in Pacific
VJ Day: P 790
Date:
What:
Victory in Japan- formal surrender on US battleship USS Missouri
Date : Iwo Jima:
Island critical because:
US marines lost, greatest ________, only ______
Japanese lived Famous photo:
Date : Okinawa
____Americans die, ________Japanese- showed Allied __________Am. Lives
Midway: P 785
Date:
Americans Broke:
Japanese Lost
_____________in the Pacific
Chester Nimitz – Commander Naval forces in Pacific
Pearl Harbor
_________attack US naval base – starts war :
Date: ___________
Guadalcanal: P 787
Date:
Called :
Japan’s 1st
1st Allied
Allies began strategy of
defeat Japan island by island
Philippines (p 785)
MacArthur forces to withdraw in 1942 but pledged
Battle of Coral Sea: P 785
Date:
1st use of Japanese : _____________suicide pilots
Impact of kamikaze pilots:
Impact of Battle on Japan:
Date:
Stopped Japanese drive
Fighting done by:
2 fleets never saw each other
Leyte Gulf: P 787