1. The Road to Berlin

2. Falaise Gap

3. Assassination  July 20, 1944: Von Stauffenberg attempted to bomb Hitler

5. August 26, 1944  Allied Troops re-enter Paris  Charles De Gaulle walks down the Champs de Elysees

6. Battle of the Bulge  December 1944  Hitler launched his final major offensive in the West through the Ardennes forest  Wanted to capture the port of Antwerp

7. Bastogne, Belgium  German troops surrounded the American airborne  Under siege from the German’s  Rescued by Patton

11. McAulliffe “Nuts”

12. January 1945  Battle of the Bulge over. German reserves are gone.

13. Yalta Conference  February 4-11, 1945:  It was the high point of East- West relations in the war

14. United States  Roosevelt wanted military support for the war against Japan  Wanted the Soviet Union to participate in the United Nations

15. Soviet Union  Wanted to build a sphere of influence in Eastern Europe  To protect against future threats from the West

16. Britain  Wanted to secure free election for Soviet liberated countries  This goes against what Stalin desires

17. Division of Germany  Three zones of occupation  Same for Berlin  Demilitarization and denazification

19. Liberation of Holland  After D-Day and Falaise Canadian troops move towards Holland  Liberate Holland from the Nazis on May 5, 1945

21. East meets West  April 25, 1945 U.S. and Russian Forces meet on the Elbe River

22. April 30, 1945  Hitler commits suicide  In his bunker with his new wife

24. May 8, 1945  V-E Day  Victory in Europe Day  The last German troops surrender