1. The War for Europe & North Africa
Chapter 17 Section 2
The War for Europe & North Africa

2. Brainstorm
You’ve been attacked by Japan, where do you concentrate your war efforts, in Europe or the Pacific?
What is your plan?

3. Objectives 1. Summarize the Allies’ plan for winning the war
ID events in the war in Europe
Describe the liberation of Europe

4. War Plans
FDR & WC spent three weeks together coming up with a plan to defeat the bigger threat, Germany & Italy.

5. The Battle of the Atlantic
German subs along the U.S. Atlantic trying to cut British life line & starve them
1942--month 4/ 87 ships off the Atlantic Coast
1942--month 7/ 681 Allied ships sunk in Atlantic
1943 – Destroyers/convoys/radar/sonar have unbearable effect on U-boats

6. Battle of Stalingrad 1941 Winter bogs down Germans
August 1942 Germans move South toward Industrial city of Stalingrad
Stalin orders to hold city at all cost
9/10 of city taken by house by house with hand to hand combat but winter set in again
1.1 Soviets Die/Germans surrender/West

7. North Africa / Operation Torch
Stalin wants a second Western front
Eisenhower launches Operation Torch / N. Africa
Allied troops land in Morocco & Algeria and push eastward against Rommel the Desert Fox
Over in 1943

8. Italian Campaign
Churchill unlike Americans wants attack to take place in Italy
Allies victorious in 1943
Mussolini arrested by King
Bloody Anzio for 4 months and future resistance from Germany until Germany falls—25k Allies & 30K Axis casualties
Tuskegee Airmen & Buffalo Soldiers

9. D-day or Operation Overlord
June 6, 1944 Eisenhower led 3 million Allied troops to invade at Normandy in Northern France
Fake army to attack at Calais
Parachutes first behind German lines
Largest land-sea air battle
One month--1M troops, 567K tons of supplies & 170K vehicles

10. D-day or Operation Overlord
Bradley’s air & land bombardment at St. Lo allows Patton’s army to move south and liberate Paris which had been captive for 4 years
1944 France, Belgium & Luxembourg free

11. Battle of the Bulge
1944 last German offensive at the Battle of the Bulge (1 month) to retake German land and break Allies supply lines & morale
8 German tank divisions drive into Allied territory / no prisoners
Germans lose 120K troops, 600 tanks, 1600 planes

12. Liberation of Majdanek
Soviets find and liberate death camp
1K starving
German SS troops trying to hide evidence
800K pair of shoes found

13. Victory in Europe Day April 25, 1945 Soviets storm Berlin
German deserters shot & hanged
Hitler marries Eva Braun
Blames war on Jews & loss of war on German generals
Shoots himself/poison/gas/buried
May 8,1945 V-E day
FDR dies in April / Truman