Transcript Turning the tide in WWII

Turning the tide in WWII
Important Victories
changes the momentum
for the Allies
1942-1945
Smart Start:
• Explain how the Axis powers
dominated the first 3 years of WWII
(1939-1942)
–What battles occurred?
–What was the plan of the Axis
powers
–Why did they have all the “mo-jo”?
Up to this Point
European Theatre
*Hitler’s take over
(Czech. & Poland)
Battle of Dunkirk
Battle of Britain
Dominance in North
Africa
Usage of Blitzkreig
Appeasement
Invasion of Russia
Holocaust
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Pacific Theatre
Bombing of Pearl
Harbor
Take over of pacific
islands (Guam,
Philippines, Wake
Island, Hong Kong,
Malaya, Singapore,
Burma, Indonesia)
Take over of China
and SE Asia
Forgotten Holocaust
So what went wrong?
• Greed and over confidence of power
• To vast of an area to control (Japan)
• Lack of proper leadership and ability
(Mussolini)
• Losses in important battles (MidwayPacific Theatre/Battle of Britain and
Stalingrad-European Theatre)
• Entrance of the US after Pearl Harbor
• Loss control of North Africa “Soft
underbelly of Europe”-Winston Churchill
Battle of Midway
• Up to this battle in June of 1942: Japan
dominated the Pacific Theatre
• Japanese plans were to take the Island of
Midway and wipe out US Pacific fleet
located there
• Message was decoded (US outnumbered
but aware of attack and are prepared)
• Air attacks/US Navy is a force to be
recognize
• Japanese retreat
• Payback for Pearl Harbor (Destroyed 4
Japanese Aircraft carriers)
US momentum
• Mac Arthur – US
commander of Pacific land
effort
–Plan: “Island hopping”
• take islands close to Japan
• try to cut off supply lines:
starve troops
General MacArthur- US General
Aug 1942-Feb 1943
• Guadalcanal
Japanese building an air
base; US plans to strike
before completion
–6 months of fighting
–Japanese abandon the
island (23,000 of 36,000
die)
Russians defeat Germans
• Battle of Stalingrad 1942-1943
• Hitler pushed back to same position where
he began his invasion campaign
• Soldiers are suffering (Harsh winter, no
food, lack of proper clothing, loosing
moral)
• Loss of life (Best German army section
lost)
• Had to retreat (huge bubble buster for
Germany)
1943-1944- It began to unravel for Axis
Powers
• Tunisia in North Africa surrendered to the
Allies
• Allies then move northward and take over
the country of Sicily
• Fall of Sicily: Mussolini is removed from
power and King Immanuel III takes over
• Germany tries to save Mussolini in a daring
raid and put him in power North Italy
• Germany controls northern Italy
• Bloody battles and heavy casualties for
Allies: Rome captured in June 1944
Italy falls- 1944
• Italy is now controlled by the Allies
• Known as the “Second Front”
• Mussolini tries to escape, but fails and is
captured and executed
• His body was hung in the town square for
all Italians to see (Spit, kick, mutilate his
body)
• Allies now devise a plan to take over rest
of Europe
D-Day
• To surround Hitler within Germany (Put
him in the middle- Cookie effect)
• Soviet Union would push from the East
• Britain, US, France, etc would push from
the West
• Needed to invade France (Normandy)
• Dwight E Eisenhower-US General begins
to plan the biggest and greatest Naval,
Land, and Air assault in World History
D-Day- June 6, 1944
–60 mile stretch of beach
–3.5 million sent in, 3,000+
Americans die on the beach
–Allies had to pass
underwater mines, barbed
wire, machine gun fire
–Going up hill/on beaches
D Day Clip
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_qeC
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• The invasion force included 7,000 ships and
landing craft manned by over 195,000 naval
personnel from eight allied countries. Almost
133,000 troops from England, Canada and the
United States landed on D-Day. Casualties from
the three countries during the landing numbered
10,300.
• By June 30th, over 850,000 men, 148,000
vehicles, and 570,000 tons of supplies had
landed on the Normandy shores. Fighting by the
brave soldiers, sailors and airmen of the allied
forces western front and Russian forces on the
eastern front led to the defeat of German Nazi
forces.
Result of D-Day
–One month later, 1 million
more troops arrive
–August 25, 1944 Allies
take Paris; liberate
France, Belgium,
Luxemburg
Assignment:
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After receiving the handouts you will
need to complete the following:
1. Letter: You will need to re-write the letter
the best you can by taking the “voice” out.
Try to make it impersonal, report, any way
that does not have voice
2. Brief History of D-Day: You will need to
add the voice to this excerpt in any
fashion you see fit (Making sure it is
appropriate and not to be funny)
*This will be do tomorrow. For the rewriting
you can do this on the back of the
handouts.