1. BELL WORK
Take out your Ch Notes/reading packet to help you answer the questions;
Once the U.S. enters the war it joins forces w/ the Allies. They took part in two major battles (Battle of the Atlantic and Stalingrad).
1.What were the goals and results of these two battles for the Allies?
2. What was Operation Torch and who led it?

2. Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force
Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force! You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you. In company with our brave Allies and brothers in arms on the other Fronts, you will bring about the destruction of the German machine, the elimination of Nazi tyranny over the oppressed peoples of Europe, and security for ourselves in a free world. I have full confidence in your courage and devotion to duty and skill in battle. We will accept nothing less than full Victory! ~General D. Eisenhower

3. Objective: Investigate the preparations for D-Day invasion, the challenges of this operation and argue for a specific plan to invade or weaken German control of Europe.

4. Bell Work On what date does D-day take place?
What two major allied countries led the attack and against who?
What do you think the “D” in D-Day stands for?

5. Major Events prior to D-Day
War plans- Churchill & Roosevelt plan to take down Germany & Italy first (worry about Japan later)

6. Battle of the Atlantic
Hitler orders submarine raids against U.S. ships to prevent food & supplies from getting to GB
Allies respond w/ convoys for protection
Followed by destroyers w/ sonar
Shipbuilding program
Build ships faster than Germans can sink them

7. Convoys

8. Battle of Stalingrad Germans v. Russians
Hitler wanted oil fields & city of Stalingrad (major industrial center)
Hitler controls 9/10ths of city
Lenin orders soldiers to defend city at all costs
Soviets take advantage of winter
Turning point for war!
Soviets begin moving towards Germany

9. Stalingrad

10. Operation Torch
Roosevelt & Church agree not enough troops to attack Hitler in Europe
Operation an alternative- invasion of Axis controlled Africa
Win for Allies (May 1943)

11. Operation Overlord
Goal to free Italy and Europe from Nazis
Plan given to Eisenhower
British, American, Canadian (3 million supplies & men)
Plan- to attack Normandy, France
Top secret (use of phantom army) to throw off Hitler

12. D-Day First day of attack June 6
3 divisions parachuted down German lines (12am)
Followed by seaborne soldiers
German retaliation (Omaha beach)
7 days of fighting
Within 1 month- 1 million troops /supplies
Massive all raid
Along w/ French resistance (France = freed)

14. You will be investigating 3 different invasion scenarios
You will experience the same concerns, fears, and debates that Allied battle planners did in 1944.
You will be investigating 3 different invasion scenarios
Pas de Calais
Normandy
Bypassing France

16. Bell Work What was the result of D-Day?
Why was this invasion significant in WWII for the allies?

17. Military Invasion Plan
Esteemed Allies, In regards to the liberation of France and eventually all of Europe from the Germans (we/I) are proposing the following invasion plan: The plan consists of landing in…. This area would make a smart landing area because…. ***If you’re done early- start on the Pacific Battles Graphic Organizer! Fill in as much as you can from the reading.

18. Bell Work
What were some of the major problems/obstacles in planning the invasion of Normandy?
What are some problems your group is having in proposing your invasion plan?

19. Bell Work
Take out your Ch.17-3 The War in the Pacific Reading & Pacific Battles graphic organizer from yesterday. I will come around and check your HW.
Based on what you’ve read about the Pacific Battles, what similarities and differences do you see in terms of fighting, strategies on both sides, casualties, ect.?
Which of these battles do you think was the most difficult win for the U.S. and allies and why?

20. Expectations Voice level: 0 Raise your hand for question/comment
Work individually & copy notes
Stay in your seats
Consequences; back table, RM 106

21. Post D-Day invasion
By September Allies free France, Belgium & Luxemburg
Battle of Bulge:
Americans capture first German town
Germans able to break Ame. defenses
Captured 120 American GI’s
Lasted 1 month
Soldiers & weapons couldn’t be replaced
German could do nothing but retreat

22. Allied troops liberate concentration camps Allies storm onto Berlin
Post D-Day invasion
Allied troops liberate concentration camps
Allies storm onto Berlin
Hitler commits suicide
May 1945; Allies celebrate “Victory in Europe Day” (V-E Day)
With the defeat of Nazis in Germany & Italy; the Allies turned their attention to the Japanese in the Pacific