1. USH2 Unit 5: America and the World Lesson 5.3 part 7

2. Focus / Review  Turning Points against the Japanese:  -  Turning Points against the Germans:  -

3. EQ  What are the turning points in our war against Germany.

4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMAxyOZez1Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMAxyOZez1Y Operation Overlord

5. PUSHING BACK THE AXIS  AFTER BRITISH AND AMERICAN TROOPS WON VICTORIES OVER THE AXIS IN NORTH AFRICA, ALLIED LEADERS MADE PLANS FOR AN INVASION OF EUROPE.

6. STRIKING GERMANY AND ITALY  IN JANUARY 1943, FDR AND CHURCHILL MET AT THE CASABLANCA CONFERENCE IN MOROCCO  THE TWO LEADERS AGREED TO BEGIN A MASSIVE BOMBING CAMPAIGN OF GERMANY  ALSO AGREED TO ATTACK THE AXIS FORCES IN SICILY

7. STRATEGIC BOMBING  BETWEEN 1943 AND 1945, THE ALLIES DROPPED 53,000 TONS OF EXPLOSIVES ON GERMANY EVERY MONTH  THE BOMBING CREATED AN OIL SHORTAGE AND DESTROYED THE RAIL SYSTEM AND FACTORIES  GERMAN AIRFORCE COULD NOT REPLACE PLANES LOST = ALLIES GAINED TOTAL CONTROL OF SKIES

8. STRIKING THE “SOFT UNDERBELLY”  GENERAL EISENHOWER WAS IN CHARGE OF THE SICILY INVASION.  ITALY’S KING HAD MUSSOLINI ARRESTED, BUT GERMAN TROOPS TOOK NORTHERN ITALY =  PUT MUSSOLINI BACK IN POWER  MUSSOLINI WOULD EVENTUALLY BE KILLED BY HIS OWN PEOPLE.  ITALIANS SURRENDER, GERMANY DOES NOT

9. AP Casablanca Conference  1.  2.

10. THE TEHRAN CONFERENCE  FDR AND CHURCHILL MET WITH STALIN IN LATE 1943. THEY REACHED SEVERAL AGREEMENTS:  GERMANY WOULD BE DIVIDED AFTER WAR  STALIN AGREED TO ATTACK GERMANY FROM EAST ONCE ALLIES LAND IN FRANCE  STALIN ALSO PROMISED TO HELP DEFEAT JAPAN AFTER GERMANY SURRENDERS

11. AP Tehran Conference 123123

12. LANDING IN FRANCE  INVASION OF FRANCE KNOWN AS “OPERATION OVERLORD”  FDR SELECTED GENERAL EISENHOWER TO COMMAND THE INVASION  HITLER FORTIFIED COAST OF FRANCE IN ANTICIPATION  THE GERMANS WERE CONVINCED ALLIES WOULD LAND IN PAS-DE-CALAIS  TO FUEL THIS MISCONCEPTION, THE ALLIES PLACED A “DUMMY INVASION FORCE” NEAR THIS SECTOR

13. LANDING IN FRANCE - CONTINUED  THEY ACTUALLY PLANNED TO LAND ON 5 BEACHES IN NORMANDY KNOWN AS “UTAH, OMAHA, GOLD, SWORD, AND JUNO”

14. D-DAY  BY THE SPRING OF 1944, THE ALLIES WERE READY FOR THE INVASION  INVASION BEGAN JUNE 6, 1944 = D-DAY  GERMAN RESISTANCE AT OMAHA BEACH WAS INTENSE

15. AP  Note to Buddy

16. Band of Brothers  Day of Days

17. Learning Log  WHAT DID FDR AND CHURCHILL AGREE TO AT CASABLANCA?  WHAT WAS THE RESULT OF MASSIVE BOMBING CAMPAIGN OVER GERMANY?  WHAT WAS THE RESULT OF THE ITALIAN CAMPAIGN?  WHAT AGREEMENTS WERE MADE BETWEEN CHURCHILL, FDR, AND STALIN AT TEHRAN?  WHO DID FDR CHOOSE TO COMMAND OPERATION OVERLORD?  WHERE DID THE GERMANS BELIEVE THE ALLIES WOULD MOST LIKELY LAND IN REGARD TO THE INVASION OF EUROPE?  WHERE DID THE ALLIES LAND?  WHICH BEACH SUFFERED THE MOST CASUALTIES?  WHY WAS D-DAY SUCCESS SO VITAL TO ALLIED VICTORY?