WW II in Europe

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WW II in Europe

• 1939-1945 (put on timeline)

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HITLERS WWII PARTNERS

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THE ALLIED POWERS IN WWII
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US Military Leaders Video

• http//player.discoveryeducation.com/index.cfm?gui
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  romSearch1productcodeUS

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Dwight Eisenhower

• American general selected as the Supreme Allied
  Commander in Europe. In this capacity,
  Eisenhower had to coordinate the Allied war
  effort in Western Europe.

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Vernon Baker

• He was awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions
  in World War II.
• He was the only living black World War II veteran
  of the seven belatedly awarded the Medal of Honor
  when it was bestowed upon him by President
  Clinton in 1997.

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Chester Nimitz

• From Fredericksburg, Texas
• American admiral in command of all US Naval
  forces in the Pacific.
• Nimitz served as the top naval officer in the
  Pacific for the duration of the war.
• Led the US attack at the Battle of Midway

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D-Day/Battle of Normandy p8
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Battle for the beaches

• Thousands of planes, ships, tanks, landing craft,
  and 3.5 million troops awaited orders to attack
• American General Dwight D. Eisenhower planned to
  strike on the coast of Normandy. General Omar
  Bradley led American forces at D-Day.
• To keep Hitler guessing, the Allies set up a huge
  dummy army with its own headquarters and
  equipment. They ordered the make-believe army to
  attack at the French seaport of Calasis
• Code-named Operation Overlord, the invasion of
  Normandy was the greatest land and sea attack.
  The invasion began on June 6, 1944.

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• At dawn on June 6, British, American, French, and
  Canadian troops fought their way onto a 60-mile
  stretch of beach in Normandy. The Germans had dug
  in with machine guns, rocket launchers, and
  cannons
• Among Americans alone, 3,000 soldiers died on the
  beach that day
• Despite heavy causalities, the Allies held the
  beachheads. A month later more than 1 million
  additional troops had landed and successfully cut
  through German defenses.
• The success at Normandy turned the tide of the
  war in favor of the Allies and led to the
  liberation of France, Belgium, Luxembourg, and
  the Netherlands

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D- Day Video

• http//www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/d-day/v
  ideos/d-day-invasion-of-normandy

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Liberation of the Concentration Camps

• http//www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/media_nm.php?ModuleId
  10005131MediaId7826

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Headline News! Summary

• Headlines summarize the essential information in
  a story
• Allowed to use only a few words, headlines force
  editors to think of a concise way to summarize a
  lot of information.
• What is the main idea? What do we know so far?
  What is the significance of the event, discovery,
  problem, conflict, etc.?
• News sites use summaries to give readers the most
  important information, the meat of the article.

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HEADLINES

• Use your notes and readings from book on D-Day(p
  606) and the Liberation of the Concentration
  Camps(p 612) and complete the Newspaper headline
  and summary sheet for each.
• - Headline no more than 4 or 5 words
• Summary should be at least 3 sentences
• -1 summary sentence about who was involved
• - 1 summary sentence about what happened
• - 1 summary sentence about why it is
  significant

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