1. The Allied Victory 16.4

2. Strategy North Africa Italy France Germany Pacific

3. North Africa General Montgomery El Alamein German retreat Rommel escapes Operation Torch Allies invade Morocco General Eisenhower May 1943

4. Stalingrad August 1942-February 1943 Russian counterattack Germans on defensive, retreating to Germany Turning point

5. Italy Move from North Africa to Sicily Then to Italy Mussolini arrested July 1943 Italy surrenders Mussolini freed by Nazis goes North Germany invades Italy to fight the Allies Rome June 1944 Mussolini shot & hanged

6. Home Front Total war Women in factories Shortage of consumer goods Rationing Propaganda Limit civil rights – Japanese – Relocation camps

7. Victory in Europe V-E Day D-Day – June 6, 1944 – Normandy, France – Eisenhower planned it – Make believe army in Calais – Operation Overlord – Omaha & Utah: US, 2,700 – General Patton broke through to Paris – France, Belgium, Luxembourg by September

8. Victory in Europe V-E Day Hitler fighting a 2 front war Counterattack in the West Battle of the Bulge – Belgium – Ardennes forest

9. Victory in Europe V-E Day March: Rhine river in Germany April 12 FDR died Truman became president April 25 Soviets in Berlin April 30 Hitler dead May 7 Eisenhower accepts surrender V-E Day

10. Victory in the Pacific Japanese in retreat fall 1944 Leyte: Philippines Kamikazes started Iwo Jima: March 1945, Mt. Suribachi Iwo Jima Okinawa: April 1945, 350 miles from Japan – 12,000 Americans dead

11. Japanese Surrender Manhattan Project – General Groves – Oppenheimer – July 16, 1945 it worked – Sent ultimatum to Japan – Unconditional surrender – Atomic Bombs Used Atomic Bombs Used – August 6, 1945: Hiroshima, 70,000 – August 9, 1945: Nagasaki, 70,000 – September 2, 1945 surrendered on USS Missouri to General MacArthur