4. France Falls –After Hitler Invades Poland Europe went to war. –Hitler stampedes west starting in 1940, taking Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg & eventually France.

5. France – False Sense of Security? Blitzkrieg makes Maginot line useless

6. France Surrenders June, 1940

7. The French Resistance The Free French General Charles DeGaulle The Maquis

8. Now Britain Is All Alone!

9. Great Britain.........................$31 billion Soviet Union..........................$11 billion France..................................$3 billion China..................................$1.5 billion Other European......................$500 million South America.......................$400 million The amount totaled: $48,601,365,000 U. S. Lend-Lease Act, 1941

10. Lend-Lease US not in war yet, instead sell war supplies to allies.

11. Battle of Britain: The “Blitz”

12. Ger bombs Br for 6mo straight Br holds them off US ready to join due to Pearl Harbor

13. The London “Tube”: Air Raid Shelters during the Blitz

14. The Royal Air Force

15. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill Charismatic leader who inspires Brit

17. US & Rus Join –Allies: Britain France : US, Rus. –The Axis Powers: Germany, Italy and Japan

18. The “Big Three” Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt, Joseph Stalin

19. Turning Points of WWII Strategy is to focus on Euro then Japan

20. 1.“Operation Torch” : Europe’s “Soft Underbelly” y Allies plan assault on weakest Axis area - North Africa - Nov. 1942-May 1943 y George S. Patton leads American troops y Germans trapped in Tunisia - surrender over 275,000 troops.

21. 2. 2. The North Africa Campaign: The Battle of El Alamein, 1942 Gen. Ernst Rommel, The “Desert Fox” Gen. Bernard Law Montgomery (“Monty”)

22. N. Africa Tank battle to prevent Ger from taking the Suez Canal If Ger gets canal they have unlimited oil & cut off Euro supplies Allies win, take N. Afr

23. 3. Stalingrad (Operation Barbarossa) Ger attacks the heart of Rus Proves to be Hitler’s biggest mistake

24. Hitler’s Biggest Mistake

25. Operation Barbarossa: June 22, 1941 y 3,000,000 German soldiers. y 3,400 tanks.

26. Battle of Stalingrad: Winter of 1942-1943 German ArmyRussian Army 1,011,500 men1,000,500 men 10,290 artillery guns13,541 artillery guns 675 tanks894 tanks 1,216 planes1,115 planes

27. Stalingrad Deep in Rus Hilter wants due to tanks factory (T-34 best tank in war)

28. Ger reduces city to rubble, make perfect cover for Rus

29. Winter sets in & Ger freeze Rus surround city trapping Ger “Surrender or die in Stalingrad” Now Rus pushes toward Ger

30. 4. D-Day (June 6, 1944)

31. D-Day Allies finally ready for the big invasion of Europe! Biggest battle invasion in world history D-Day began with aircraft dropping bombs, and ships firing from the sea followed by. troops pouring onto the beaches,

32. Gen. Eisenhower Gives the Orders for D-Day [“Operation Overlord”]

33. Allied troops faced heavy resistance from German, and many in the first waves were killed.

37. Normandy Landing (June 6, 1944 ) Higgins Landing Crafts German Prisoners

38. By fall of 1944, the Allies had defeated the Ger at the coast, pushed inland, & liberated Paris and Bel.

39. July 20, 1944 Assassination Plot Major Claus von Stauffenberg

40. July 20, 1944 Assassination Plot 1. Adolf Hitler 2. Field Marshall Wilhelm Keitel 3. Gen Alfred von Jodl 4. Gen Walter Warlimont 5. Franz von Sonnleithner 6. Maj Herbert Buchs 7. Stenographer Heinz Buchholz 8. Lt Gen Hermann Fegelein 9. Col Nikolaus von Below 10. Rear Adm Hans-Erich Voss 11. Otto Gunsche, Hitler's adjutant 12. Gen Walter Scherff (injured) 13. Gen Ernst John von Freyend 14. Capt Heinz Assman (injured) E-mail this to a friend-mail this to a friend

41. T The Liberation of Paris: August 25, 1944 De Gaulle in Triumph!

42. U. S. Troops in Paris, 1944

43. French Female Collaborators

44. 5. The Battle of the Bulge: Hitler’s Last Offensive Dec. 16, 1944 to Jan. 28, 1945

45. Battle of the Bulge Ger throws everything at Allies (tanks etc) trying to split Allied lines Allies hold in terrible winter conditions Results in a high Ger casualties that Ger cannot recover from.

46. US & Russian Soldiers Meet at the Elbe River: April 25, 1945 Allies race to Berlin taking the city

47. Mussolini & His Mistress, Claretta Petacci Are Hung in Milan, 1945

48. Hitler Commits Suicide April 30, 1945 The F ü hrer’s Bunker Cyanide & Pistols Mr. & Mrs. Hitler

49. V-E Day (May 8, 1945) General Keitel

51. Horrors of the Holocaust Exposed

52. Crematoria at Majdanek Entrance to Auschwitz: Work Makes You Free Horrors of the Holocaust Exposed

53. Slave Labor at Buchenwald Eli Wiesel

54. Horrors of the Holocaust Exposed Mass Graves at Bergen-Belsen

55. Hitler’s “Secret Weapons”: Too Little, Too Late! V-1 Rocket: “Buzz Bomb” V-2 RocketWerner von Braun

56. The Code Breakers of WW II Bletchley Park The German “Enigma” Machine The Japanese “Purple” [naval] Code Machine