Chapter 17 Section 2

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Chapter 17 Section 2

• The War for Europe North Africa

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Brainstorm

• Youve been attacked by Japan, where do you
  concentrate your war efforts, in Europe or the
  Pacific?
• What is your plan?

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Objectives

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

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War Plans

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

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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

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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

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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

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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 falls25k Allies 30K
  Axis casualties
• Tuskegee Airmen Buffalo Soldiers

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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

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D-day or Operation Overlord

• Bradleys air land bombardment at St. Lo allows
  Pattons army to move south and liberate Paris
  which had been captive for 4 years
• 1944 France, Belgium Luxembourg free

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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

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Liberation of Majdanek

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

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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