Slide 1

US History

War Plans
-Roosevelt and British leader
Churchill meet

-Germany is top priority
-only an unconditional surrender
is acceptable
-Battle of the Atlantic
convoy system
Liberty ship building program
was producing great numbers
of ships to supply war
-Allies begin strategic bombing of
Germany to destroy war
capabilities

Eastern Front
-initial victories in USSR turn
into stalemate and the Russian
winter stops German advances
-Germany surround key city of
Stalingrad, 1942

-Germany is defeated at
Stalingrad at great cost
turning point of the
European war ***
-Stalin wants another “front’ to
occupy Germany

Africa/Italy
-invasion of Northern Africa by
British and American troops to
fight against Germany’s Afrika
Corps led by Erwin Rommel,
the Desert Fox
-Rommel’s forces eventually
defeated at El Alamein
-”Soft underbelly” campaign
attack Germany through Italy
Mussolini is removed from power
and Italians declare war on
Germany
-German troops make Italian
campaign last many months

Nazi Controlled Europe of 1942

D-Day
-Allies had planned an invasion of
the mainland
-Operation Overlord

-planned by Dwight Eisenhower
-June 6, 1944
-paratroopers invaded behind
enemy lines, thousands stormed
beaches of Normandy France
Omaha Beach

Utah Beach
-France liberated within weeks
General George Patton

The End is Near
-Battle of the Bulge Dec. 1944
last German counter-offensive
Germany is now in retreat
600,000 US Soldiers, 140K Allied
1/3 of US causalities – frostbite.

-massive bombing raids
-Roosevelt wins 4th term with
Harry Truman
-Soviet armies pushing into
Germany from the east

Germany started counter
Attack in December, wasn’t
Counting on American determination!

Soviets start pushing in
To Germany . . .

V-E Day
-Big 3 Continue to discuss end of
war
-U.S. British forces pushing toward
Berlin
-death camps found and Holocaust
is revealed
-Roosevelt dies and Truman
becomes President
-Hitler commits suicide as Russians
invade Berlin
-Germany surrenders May 1945
-V-E Day (Victory in Europe)

US History


Slide 2

US History

War Plans
-Roosevelt and British leader
Churchill meet

-Germany is top priority
-only an unconditional surrender
is acceptable
-Battle of the Atlantic
convoy system
Liberty ship building program
was producing great numbers
of ships to supply war
-Allies begin strategic bombing of
Germany to destroy war
capabilities

Eastern Front
-initial victories in USSR turn
into stalemate and the Russian
winter stops German advances
-Germany surround key city of
Stalingrad, 1942

-Germany is defeated at
Stalingrad at great cost
turning point of the
European war ***
-Stalin wants another “front’ to
occupy Germany

Africa/Italy
-invasion of Northern Africa by
British and American troops to
fight against Germany’s Afrika
Corps led by Erwin Rommel,
the Desert Fox
-Rommel’s forces eventually
defeated at El Alamein
-”Soft underbelly” campaign
attack Germany through Italy
Mussolini is removed from power
and Italians declare war on
Germany
-German troops make Italian
campaign last many months

Nazi Controlled Europe of 1942

D-Day
-Allies had planned an invasion of
the mainland
-Operation Overlord

-planned by Dwight Eisenhower
-June 6, 1944
-paratroopers invaded behind
enemy lines, thousands stormed
beaches of Normandy France
Omaha Beach

Utah Beach
-France liberated within weeks
General George Patton

The End is Near
-Battle of the Bulge Dec. 1944
last German counter-offensive
Germany is now in retreat
600,000 US Soldiers, 140K Allied
1/3 of US causalities – frostbite.

-massive bombing raids
-Roosevelt wins 4th term with
Harry Truman
-Soviet armies pushing into
Germany from the east

Germany started counter
Attack in December, wasn’t
Counting on American determination!

Soviets start pushing in
To Germany . . .

V-E Day
-Big 3 Continue to discuss end of
war
-U.S. British forces pushing toward
Berlin
-death camps found and Holocaust
is revealed
-Roosevelt dies and Truman
becomes President
-Hitler commits suicide as Russians
invade Berlin
-Germany surrenders May 1945
-V-E Day (Victory in Europe)

US History


Slide 3

US History

War Plans
-Roosevelt and British leader
Churchill meet

-Germany is top priority
-only an unconditional surrender
is acceptable
-Battle of the Atlantic
convoy system
Liberty ship building program
was producing great numbers
of ships to supply war
-Allies begin strategic bombing of
Germany to destroy war
capabilities

Eastern Front
-initial victories in USSR turn
into stalemate and the Russian
winter stops German advances
-Germany surround key city of
Stalingrad, 1942

-Germany is defeated at
Stalingrad at great cost
turning point of the
European war ***
-Stalin wants another “front’ to
occupy Germany

Africa/Italy
-invasion of Northern Africa by
British and American troops to
fight against Germany’s Afrika
Corps led by Erwin Rommel,
the Desert Fox
-Rommel’s forces eventually
defeated at El Alamein
-”Soft underbelly” campaign
attack Germany through Italy
Mussolini is removed from power
and Italians declare war on
Germany
-German troops make Italian
campaign last many months

Nazi Controlled Europe of 1942

D-Day
-Allies had planned an invasion of
the mainland
-Operation Overlord

-planned by Dwight Eisenhower
-June 6, 1944
-paratroopers invaded behind
enemy lines, thousands stormed
beaches of Normandy France
Omaha Beach

Utah Beach
-France liberated within weeks
General George Patton

The End is Near
-Battle of the Bulge Dec. 1944
last German counter-offensive
Germany is now in retreat
600,000 US Soldiers, 140K Allied
1/3 of US causalities – frostbite.

-massive bombing raids
-Roosevelt wins 4th term with
Harry Truman
-Soviet armies pushing into
Germany from the east

Germany started counter
Attack in December, wasn’t
Counting on American determination!

Soviets start pushing in
To Germany . . .

V-E Day
-Big 3 Continue to discuss end of
war
-U.S. British forces pushing toward
Berlin
-death camps found and Holocaust
is revealed
-Roosevelt dies and Truman
becomes President
-Hitler commits suicide as Russians
invade Berlin
-Germany surrenders May 1945
-V-E Day (Victory in Europe)

US History


Slide 4

US History

War Plans
-Roosevelt and British leader
Churchill meet

-Germany is top priority
-only an unconditional surrender
is acceptable
-Battle of the Atlantic
convoy system
Liberty ship building program
was producing great numbers
of ships to supply war
-Allies begin strategic bombing of
Germany to destroy war
capabilities

Eastern Front
-initial victories in USSR turn
into stalemate and the Russian
winter stops German advances
-Germany surround key city of
Stalingrad, 1942

-Germany is defeated at
Stalingrad at great cost
turning point of the
European war ***
-Stalin wants another “front’ to
occupy Germany

Africa/Italy
-invasion of Northern Africa by
British and American troops to
fight against Germany’s Afrika
Corps led by Erwin Rommel,
the Desert Fox
-Rommel’s forces eventually
defeated at El Alamein
-”Soft underbelly” campaign
attack Germany through Italy
Mussolini is removed from power
and Italians declare war on
Germany
-German troops make Italian
campaign last many months

Nazi Controlled Europe of 1942

D-Day
-Allies had planned an invasion of
the mainland
-Operation Overlord

-planned by Dwight Eisenhower
-June 6, 1944
-paratroopers invaded behind
enemy lines, thousands stormed
beaches of Normandy France
Omaha Beach

Utah Beach
-France liberated within weeks
General George Patton

The End is Near
-Battle of the Bulge Dec. 1944
last German counter-offensive
Germany is now in retreat
600,000 US Soldiers, 140K Allied
1/3 of US causalities – frostbite.

-massive bombing raids
-Roosevelt wins 4th term with
Harry Truman
-Soviet armies pushing into
Germany from the east

Germany started counter
Attack in December, wasn’t
Counting on American determination!

Soviets start pushing in
To Germany . . .

V-E Day
-Big 3 Continue to discuss end of
war
-U.S. British forces pushing toward
Berlin
-death camps found and Holocaust
is revealed
-Roosevelt dies and Truman
becomes President
-Hitler commits suicide as Russians
invade Berlin
-Germany surrenders May 1945
-V-E Day (Victory in Europe)

US History


Slide 5

US History

War Plans
-Roosevelt and British leader
Churchill meet

-Germany is top priority
-only an unconditional surrender
is acceptable
-Battle of the Atlantic
convoy system
Liberty ship building program
was producing great numbers
of ships to supply war
-Allies begin strategic bombing of
Germany to destroy war
capabilities

Eastern Front
-initial victories in USSR turn
into stalemate and the Russian
winter stops German advances
-Germany surround key city of
Stalingrad, 1942

-Germany is defeated at
Stalingrad at great cost
turning point of the
European war ***
-Stalin wants another “front’ to
occupy Germany

Africa/Italy
-invasion of Northern Africa by
British and American troops to
fight against Germany’s Afrika
Corps led by Erwin Rommel,
the Desert Fox
-Rommel’s forces eventually
defeated at El Alamein
-”Soft underbelly” campaign
attack Germany through Italy
Mussolini is removed from power
and Italians declare war on
Germany
-German troops make Italian
campaign last many months

Nazi Controlled Europe of 1942

D-Day
-Allies had planned an invasion of
the mainland
-Operation Overlord

-planned by Dwight Eisenhower
-June 6, 1944
-paratroopers invaded behind
enemy lines, thousands stormed
beaches of Normandy France
Omaha Beach

Utah Beach
-France liberated within weeks
General George Patton

The End is Near
-Battle of the Bulge Dec. 1944
last German counter-offensive
Germany is now in retreat
600,000 US Soldiers, 140K Allied
1/3 of US causalities – frostbite.

-massive bombing raids
-Roosevelt wins 4th term with
Harry Truman
-Soviet armies pushing into
Germany from the east

Germany started counter
Attack in December, wasn’t
Counting on American determination!

Soviets start pushing in
To Germany . . .

V-E Day
-Big 3 Continue to discuss end of
war
-U.S. British forces pushing toward
Berlin
-death camps found and Holocaust
is revealed
-Roosevelt dies and Truman
becomes President
-Hitler commits suicide as Russians
invade Berlin
-Germany surrenders May 1945
-V-E Day (Victory in Europe)

US History


Slide 6

US History

War Plans
-Roosevelt and British leader
Churchill meet

-Germany is top priority
-only an unconditional surrender
is acceptable
-Battle of the Atlantic
convoy system
Liberty ship building program
was producing great numbers
of ships to supply war
-Allies begin strategic bombing of
Germany to destroy war
capabilities

Eastern Front
-initial victories in USSR turn
into stalemate and the Russian
winter stops German advances
-Germany surround key city of
Stalingrad, 1942

-Germany is defeated at
Stalingrad at great cost
turning point of the
European war ***
-Stalin wants another “front’ to
occupy Germany

Africa/Italy
-invasion of Northern Africa by
British and American troops to
fight against Germany’s Afrika
Corps led by Erwin Rommel,
the Desert Fox
-Rommel’s forces eventually
defeated at El Alamein
-”Soft underbelly” campaign
attack Germany through Italy
Mussolini is removed from power
and Italians declare war on
Germany
-German troops make Italian
campaign last many months

Nazi Controlled Europe of 1942

D-Day
-Allies had planned an invasion of
the mainland
-Operation Overlord

-planned by Dwight Eisenhower
-June 6, 1944
-paratroopers invaded behind
enemy lines, thousands stormed
beaches of Normandy France
Omaha Beach

Utah Beach
-France liberated within weeks
General George Patton

The End is Near
-Battle of the Bulge Dec. 1944
last German counter-offensive
Germany is now in retreat
600,000 US Soldiers, 140K Allied
1/3 of US causalities – frostbite.

-massive bombing raids
-Roosevelt wins 4th term with
Harry Truman
-Soviet armies pushing into
Germany from the east

Germany started counter
Attack in December, wasn’t
Counting on American determination!

Soviets start pushing in
To Germany . . .

V-E Day
-Big 3 Continue to discuss end of
war
-U.S. British forces pushing toward
Berlin
-death camps found and Holocaust
is revealed
-Roosevelt dies and Truman
becomes President
-Hitler commits suicide as Russians
invade Berlin
-Germany surrenders May 1945
-V-E Day (Victory in Europe)

US History


Slide 7

US History

War Plans
-Roosevelt and British leader
Churchill meet

-Germany is top priority
-only an unconditional surrender
is acceptable
-Battle of the Atlantic
convoy system
Liberty ship building program
was producing great numbers
of ships to supply war
-Allies begin strategic bombing of
Germany to destroy war
capabilities

Eastern Front
-initial victories in USSR turn
into stalemate and the Russian
winter stops German advances
-Germany surround key city of
Stalingrad, 1942

-Germany is defeated at
Stalingrad at great cost
turning point of the
European war ***
-Stalin wants another “front’ to
occupy Germany

Africa/Italy
-invasion of Northern Africa by
British and American troops to
fight against Germany’s Afrika
Corps led by Erwin Rommel,
the Desert Fox
-Rommel’s forces eventually
defeated at El Alamein
-”Soft underbelly” campaign
attack Germany through Italy
Mussolini is removed from power
and Italians declare war on
Germany
-German troops make Italian
campaign last many months

Nazi Controlled Europe of 1942

D-Day
-Allies had planned an invasion of
the mainland
-Operation Overlord

-planned by Dwight Eisenhower
-June 6, 1944
-paratroopers invaded behind
enemy lines, thousands stormed
beaches of Normandy France
Omaha Beach

Utah Beach
-France liberated within weeks
General George Patton

The End is Near
-Battle of the Bulge Dec. 1944
last German counter-offensive
Germany is now in retreat
600,000 US Soldiers, 140K Allied
1/3 of US causalities – frostbite.

-massive bombing raids
-Roosevelt wins 4th term with
Harry Truman
-Soviet armies pushing into
Germany from the east

Germany started counter
Attack in December, wasn’t
Counting on American determination!

Soviets start pushing in
To Germany . . .

V-E Day
-Big 3 Continue to discuss end of
war
-U.S. British forces pushing toward
Berlin
-death camps found and Holocaust
is revealed
-Roosevelt dies and Truman
becomes President
-Hitler commits suicide as Russians
invade Berlin
-Germany surrenders May 1945
-V-E Day (Victory in Europe)

US History


Slide 8

US History

War Plans
-Roosevelt and British leader
Churchill meet

-Germany is top priority
-only an unconditional surrender
is acceptable
-Battle of the Atlantic
convoy system
Liberty ship building program
was producing great numbers
of ships to supply war
-Allies begin strategic bombing of
Germany to destroy war
capabilities

Eastern Front
-initial victories in USSR turn
into stalemate and the Russian
winter stops German advances
-Germany surround key city of
Stalingrad, 1942

-Germany is defeated at
Stalingrad at great cost
turning point of the
European war ***
-Stalin wants another “front’ to
occupy Germany

Africa/Italy
-invasion of Northern Africa by
British and American troops to
fight against Germany’s Afrika
Corps led by Erwin Rommel,
the Desert Fox
-Rommel’s forces eventually
defeated at El Alamein
-”Soft underbelly” campaign
attack Germany through Italy
Mussolini is removed from power
and Italians declare war on
Germany
-German troops make Italian
campaign last many months

Nazi Controlled Europe of 1942

D-Day
-Allies had planned an invasion of
the mainland
-Operation Overlord

-planned by Dwight Eisenhower
-June 6, 1944
-paratroopers invaded behind
enemy lines, thousands stormed
beaches of Normandy France
Omaha Beach

Utah Beach
-France liberated within weeks
General George Patton

The End is Near
-Battle of the Bulge Dec. 1944
last German counter-offensive
Germany is now in retreat
600,000 US Soldiers, 140K Allied
1/3 of US causalities – frostbite.

-massive bombing raids
-Roosevelt wins 4th term with
Harry Truman
-Soviet armies pushing into
Germany from the east

Germany started counter
Attack in December, wasn’t
Counting on American determination!

Soviets start pushing in
To Germany . . .

V-E Day
-Big 3 Continue to discuss end of
war
-U.S. British forces pushing toward
Berlin
-death camps found and Holocaust
is revealed
-Roosevelt dies and Truman
becomes President
-Hitler commits suicide as Russians
invade Berlin
-Germany surrenders May 1945
-V-E Day (Victory in Europe)

US History


Slide 9

US History

War Plans
-Roosevelt and British leader
Churchill meet

-Germany is top priority
-only an unconditional surrender
is acceptable
-Battle of the Atlantic
convoy system
Liberty ship building program
was producing great numbers
of ships to supply war
-Allies begin strategic bombing of
Germany to destroy war
capabilities

Eastern Front
-initial victories in USSR turn
into stalemate and the Russian
winter stops German advances
-Germany surround key city of
Stalingrad, 1942

-Germany is defeated at
Stalingrad at great cost
turning point of the
European war ***
-Stalin wants another “front’ to
occupy Germany

Africa/Italy
-invasion of Northern Africa by
British and American troops to
fight against Germany’s Afrika
Corps led by Erwin Rommel,
the Desert Fox
-Rommel’s forces eventually
defeated at El Alamein
-”Soft underbelly” campaign
attack Germany through Italy
Mussolini is removed from power
and Italians declare war on
Germany
-German troops make Italian
campaign last many months

Nazi Controlled Europe of 1942

D-Day
-Allies had planned an invasion of
the mainland
-Operation Overlord

-planned by Dwight Eisenhower
-June 6, 1944
-paratroopers invaded behind
enemy lines, thousands stormed
beaches of Normandy France
Omaha Beach

Utah Beach
-France liberated within weeks
General George Patton

The End is Near
-Battle of the Bulge Dec. 1944
last German counter-offensive
Germany is now in retreat
600,000 US Soldiers, 140K Allied
1/3 of US causalities – frostbite.

-massive bombing raids
-Roosevelt wins 4th term with
Harry Truman
-Soviet armies pushing into
Germany from the east

Germany started counter
Attack in December, wasn’t
Counting on American determination!

Soviets start pushing in
To Germany . . .

V-E Day
-Big 3 Continue to discuss end of
war
-U.S. British forces pushing toward
Berlin
-death camps found and Holocaust
is revealed
-Roosevelt dies and Truman
becomes President
-Hitler commits suicide as Russians
invade Berlin
-Germany surrenders May 1945
-V-E Day (Victory in Europe)

US History


Slide 10

US History

War Plans
-Roosevelt and British leader
Churchill meet

-Germany is top priority
-only an unconditional surrender
is acceptable
-Battle of the Atlantic
convoy system
Liberty ship building program
was producing great numbers
of ships to supply war
-Allies begin strategic bombing of
Germany to destroy war
capabilities

Eastern Front
-initial victories in USSR turn
into stalemate and the Russian
winter stops German advances
-Germany surround key city of
Stalingrad, 1942

-Germany is defeated at
Stalingrad at great cost
turning point of the
European war ***
-Stalin wants another “front’ to
occupy Germany

Africa/Italy
-invasion of Northern Africa by
British and American troops to
fight against Germany’s Afrika
Corps led by Erwin Rommel,
the Desert Fox
-Rommel’s forces eventually
defeated at El Alamein
-”Soft underbelly” campaign
attack Germany through Italy
Mussolini is removed from power
and Italians declare war on
Germany
-German troops make Italian
campaign last many months

Nazi Controlled Europe of 1942

D-Day
-Allies had planned an invasion of
the mainland
-Operation Overlord

-planned by Dwight Eisenhower
-June 6, 1944
-paratroopers invaded behind
enemy lines, thousands stormed
beaches of Normandy France
Omaha Beach

Utah Beach
-France liberated within weeks
General George Patton

The End is Near
-Battle of the Bulge Dec. 1944
last German counter-offensive
Germany is now in retreat
600,000 US Soldiers, 140K Allied
1/3 of US causalities – frostbite.

-massive bombing raids
-Roosevelt wins 4th term with
Harry Truman
-Soviet armies pushing into
Germany from the east

Germany started counter
Attack in December, wasn’t
Counting on American determination!

Soviets start pushing in
To Germany . . .

V-E Day
-Big 3 Continue to discuss end of
war
-U.S. British forces pushing toward
Berlin
-death camps found and Holocaust
is revealed
-Roosevelt dies and Truman
becomes President
-Hitler commits suicide as Russians
invade Berlin
-Germany surrenders May 1945
-V-E Day (Victory in Europe)

US History


Slide 11

US History

War Plans
-Roosevelt and British leader
Churchill meet

-Germany is top priority
-only an unconditional surrender
is acceptable
-Battle of the Atlantic
convoy system
Liberty ship building program
was producing great numbers
of ships to supply war
-Allies begin strategic bombing of
Germany to destroy war
capabilities

Eastern Front
-initial victories in USSR turn
into stalemate and the Russian
winter stops German advances
-Germany surround key city of
Stalingrad, 1942

-Germany is defeated at
Stalingrad at great cost
turning point of the
European war ***
-Stalin wants another “front’ to
occupy Germany

Africa/Italy
-invasion of Northern Africa by
British and American troops to
fight against Germany’s Afrika
Corps led by Erwin Rommel,
the Desert Fox
-Rommel’s forces eventually
defeated at El Alamein
-”Soft underbelly” campaign
attack Germany through Italy
Mussolini is removed from power
and Italians declare war on
Germany
-German troops make Italian
campaign last many months

Nazi Controlled Europe of 1942

D-Day
-Allies had planned an invasion of
the mainland
-Operation Overlord

-planned by Dwight Eisenhower
-June 6, 1944
-paratroopers invaded behind
enemy lines, thousands stormed
beaches of Normandy France
Omaha Beach

Utah Beach
-France liberated within weeks
General George Patton

The End is Near
-Battle of the Bulge Dec. 1944
last German counter-offensive
Germany is now in retreat
600,000 US Soldiers, 140K Allied
1/3 of US causalities – frostbite.

-massive bombing raids
-Roosevelt wins 4th term with
Harry Truman
-Soviet armies pushing into
Germany from the east

Germany started counter
Attack in December, wasn’t
Counting on American determination!

Soviets start pushing in
To Germany . . .

V-E Day
-Big 3 Continue to discuss end of
war
-U.S. British forces pushing toward
Berlin
-death camps found and Holocaust
is revealed
-Roosevelt dies and Truman
becomes President
-Hitler commits suicide as Russians
invade Berlin
-Germany surrenders May 1945
-V-E Day (Victory in Europe)

US History


Slide 12

US History

War Plans
-Roosevelt and British leader
Churchill meet

-Germany is top priority
-only an unconditional surrender
is acceptable
-Battle of the Atlantic
convoy system
Liberty ship building program
was producing great numbers
of ships to supply war
-Allies begin strategic bombing of
Germany to destroy war
capabilities

Eastern Front
-initial victories in USSR turn
into stalemate and the Russian
winter stops German advances
-Germany surround key city of
Stalingrad, 1942

-Germany is defeated at
Stalingrad at great cost
turning point of the
European war ***
-Stalin wants another “front’ to
occupy Germany

Africa/Italy
-invasion of Northern Africa by
British and American troops to
fight against Germany’s Afrika
Corps led by Erwin Rommel,
the Desert Fox
-Rommel’s forces eventually
defeated at El Alamein
-”Soft underbelly” campaign
attack Germany through Italy
Mussolini is removed from power
and Italians declare war on
Germany
-German troops make Italian
campaign last many months

Nazi Controlled Europe of 1942

D-Day
-Allies had planned an invasion of
the mainland
-Operation Overlord

-planned by Dwight Eisenhower
-June 6, 1944
-paratroopers invaded behind
enemy lines, thousands stormed
beaches of Normandy France
Omaha Beach

Utah Beach
-France liberated within weeks
General George Patton

The End is Near
-Battle of the Bulge Dec. 1944
last German counter-offensive
Germany is now in retreat
600,000 US Soldiers, 140K Allied
1/3 of US causalities – frostbite.

-massive bombing raids
-Roosevelt wins 4th term with
Harry Truman
-Soviet armies pushing into
Germany from the east

Germany started counter
Attack in December, wasn’t
Counting on American determination!

Soviets start pushing in
To Germany . . .

V-E Day
-Big 3 Continue to discuss end of
war
-U.S. British forces pushing toward
Berlin
-death camps found and Holocaust
is revealed
-Roosevelt dies and Truman
becomes President
-Hitler commits suicide as Russians
invade Berlin
-Germany surrenders May 1945
-V-E Day (Victory in Europe)

US History


Slide 13

US History

War Plans
-Roosevelt and British leader
Churchill meet

-Germany is top priority
-only an unconditional surrender
is acceptable
-Battle of the Atlantic
convoy system
Liberty ship building program
was producing great numbers
of ships to supply war
-Allies begin strategic bombing of
Germany to destroy war
capabilities

Eastern Front
-initial victories in USSR turn
into stalemate and the Russian
winter stops German advances
-Germany surround key city of
Stalingrad, 1942

-Germany is defeated at
Stalingrad at great cost
turning point of the
European war ***
-Stalin wants another “front’ to
occupy Germany

Africa/Italy
-invasion of Northern Africa by
British and American troops to
fight against Germany’s Afrika
Corps led by Erwin Rommel,
the Desert Fox
-Rommel’s forces eventually
defeated at El Alamein
-”Soft underbelly” campaign
attack Germany through Italy
Mussolini is removed from power
and Italians declare war on
Germany
-German troops make Italian
campaign last many months

Nazi Controlled Europe of 1942

D-Day
-Allies had planned an invasion of
the mainland
-Operation Overlord

-planned by Dwight Eisenhower
-June 6, 1944
-paratroopers invaded behind
enemy lines, thousands stormed
beaches of Normandy France
Omaha Beach

Utah Beach
-France liberated within weeks
General George Patton

The End is Near
-Battle of the Bulge Dec. 1944
last German counter-offensive
Germany is now in retreat
600,000 US Soldiers, 140K Allied
1/3 of US causalities – frostbite.

-massive bombing raids
-Roosevelt wins 4th term with
Harry Truman
-Soviet armies pushing into
Germany from the east

Germany started counter
Attack in December, wasn’t
Counting on American determination!

Soviets start pushing in
To Germany . . .

V-E Day
-Big 3 Continue to discuss end of
war
-U.S. British forces pushing toward
Berlin
-death camps found and Holocaust
is revealed
-Roosevelt dies and Truman
becomes President
-Hitler commits suicide as Russians
invade Berlin
-Germany surrenders May 1945
-V-E Day (Victory in Europe)

US History


Slide 14

US History

War Plans
-Roosevelt and British leader
Churchill meet

-Germany is top priority
-only an unconditional surrender
is acceptable
-Battle of the Atlantic
convoy system
Liberty ship building program
was producing great numbers
of ships to supply war
-Allies begin strategic bombing of
Germany to destroy war
capabilities

Eastern Front
-initial victories in USSR turn
into stalemate and the Russian
winter stops German advances
-Germany surround key city of
Stalingrad, 1942

-Germany is defeated at
Stalingrad at great cost
turning point of the
European war ***
-Stalin wants another “front’ to
occupy Germany

Africa/Italy
-invasion of Northern Africa by
British and American troops to
fight against Germany’s Afrika
Corps led by Erwin Rommel,
the Desert Fox
-Rommel’s forces eventually
defeated at El Alamein
-”Soft underbelly” campaign
attack Germany through Italy
Mussolini is removed from power
and Italians declare war on
Germany
-German troops make Italian
campaign last many months

Nazi Controlled Europe of 1942

D-Day
-Allies had planned an invasion of
the mainland
-Operation Overlord

-planned by Dwight Eisenhower
-June 6, 1944
-paratroopers invaded behind
enemy lines, thousands stormed
beaches of Normandy France
Omaha Beach

Utah Beach
-France liberated within weeks
General George Patton

The End is Near
-Battle of the Bulge Dec. 1944
last German counter-offensive
Germany is now in retreat
600,000 US Soldiers, 140K Allied
1/3 of US causalities – frostbite.

-massive bombing raids
-Roosevelt wins 4th term with
Harry Truman
-Soviet armies pushing into
Germany from the east

Germany started counter
Attack in December, wasn’t
Counting on American determination!

Soviets start pushing in
To Germany . . .

V-E Day
-Big 3 Continue to discuss end of
war
-U.S. British forces pushing toward
Berlin
-death camps found and Holocaust
is revealed
-Roosevelt dies and Truman
becomes President
-Hitler commits suicide as Russians
invade Berlin
-Germany surrenders May 1945
-V-E Day (Victory in Europe)

US History


Slide 15

US History

War Plans
-Roosevelt and British leader
Churchill meet

-Germany is top priority
-only an unconditional surrender
is acceptable
-Battle of the Atlantic
convoy system
Liberty ship building program
was producing great numbers
of ships to supply war
-Allies begin strategic bombing of
Germany to destroy war
capabilities

Eastern Front
-initial victories in USSR turn
into stalemate and the Russian
winter stops German advances
-Germany surround key city of
Stalingrad, 1942

-Germany is defeated at
Stalingrad at great cost
turning point of the
European war ***
-Stalin wants another “front’ to
occupy Germany

Africa/Italy
-invasion of Northern Africa by
British and American troops to
fight against Germany’s Afrika
Corps led by Erwin Rommel,
the Desert Fox
-Rommel’s forces eventually
defeated at El Alamein
-”Soft underbelly” campaign
attack Germany through Italy
Mussolini is removed from power
and Italians declare war on
Germany
-German troops make Italian
campaign last many months

Nazi Controlled Europe of 1942

D-Day
-Allies had planned an invasion of
the mainland
-Operation Overlord

-planned by Dwight Eisenhower
-June 6, 1944
-paratroopers invaded behind
enemy lines, thousands stormed
beaches of Normandy France
Omaha Beach

Utah Beach
-France liberated within weeks
General George Patton

The End is Near
-Battle of the Bulge Dec. 1944
last German counter-offensive
Germany is now in retreat
600,000 US Soldiers, 140K Allied
1/3 of US causalities – frostbite.

-massive bombing raids
-Roosevelt wins 4th term with
Harry Truman
-Soviet armies pushing into
Germany from the east

Germany started counter
Attack in December, wasn’t
Counting on American determination!

Soviets start pushing in
To Germany . . .

V-E Day
-Big 3 Continue to discuss end of
war
-U.S. British forces pushing toward
Berlin
-death camps found and Holocaust
is revealed
-Roosevelt dies and Truman
becomes President
-Hitler commits suicide as Russians
invade Berlin
-Germany surrenders May 1945
-V-E Day (Victory in Europe)

US History


Slide 16

US History

War Plans
-Roosevelt and British leader
Churchill meet

-Germany is top priority
-only an unconditional surrender
is acceptable
-Battle of the Atlantic
convoy system
Liberty ship building program
was producing great numbers
of ships to supply war
-Allies begin strategic bombing of
Germany to destroy war
capabilities

Eastern Front
-initial victories in USSR turn
into stalemate and the Russian
winter stops German advances
-Germany surround key city of
Stalingrad, 1942

-Germany is defeated at
Stalingrad at great cost
turning point of the
European war ***
-Stalin wants another “front’ to
occupy Germany

Africa/Italy
-invasion of Northern Africa by
British and American troops to
fight against Germany’s Afrika
Corps led by Erwin Rommel,
the Desert Fox
-Rommel’s forces eventually
defeated at El Alamein
-”Soft underbelly” campaign
attack Germany through Italy
Mussolini is removed from power
and Italians declare war on
Germany
-German troops make Italian
campaign last many months

Nazi Controlled Europe of 1942

D-Day
-Allies had planned an invasion of
the mainland
-Operation Overlord

-planned by Dwight Eisenhower
-June 6, 1944
-paratroopers invaded behind
enemy lines, thousands stormed
beaches of Normandy France
Omaha Beach

Utah Beach
-France liberated within weeks
General George Patton

The End is Near
-Battle of the Bulge Dec. 1944
last German counter-offensive
Germany is now in retreat
600,000 US Soldiers, 140K Allied
1/3 of US causalities – frostbite.

-massive bombing raids
-Roosevelt wins 4th term with
Harry Truman
-Soviet armies pushing into
Germany from the east

Germany started counter
Attack in December, wasn’t
Counting on American determination!

Soviets start pushing in
To Germany . . .

V-E Day
-Big 3 Continue to discuss end of
war
-U.S. British forces pushing toward
Berlin
-death camps found and Holocaust
is revealed
-Roosevelt dies and Truman
becomes President
-Hitler commits suicide as Russians
invade Berlin
-Germany surrenders May 1945
-V-E Day (Victory in Europe)

US History


Slide 17

US History

War Plans
-Roosevelt and British leader
Churchill meet

-Germany is top priority
-only an unconditional surrender
is acceptable
-Battle of the Atlantic
convoy system
Liberty ship building program
was producing great numbers
of ships to supply war
-Allies begin strategic bombing of
Germany to destroy war
capabilities

Eastern Front
-initial victories in USSR turn
into stalemate and the Russian
winter stops German advances
-Germany surround key city of
Stalingrad, 1942

-Germany is defeated at
Stalingrad at great cost
turning point of the
European war ***
-Stalin wants another “front’ to
occupy Germany

Africa/Italy
-invasion of Northern Africa by
British and American troops to
fight against Germany’s Afrika
Corps led by Erwin Rommel,
the Desert Fox
-Rommel’s forces eventually
defeated at El Alamein
-”Soft underbelly” campaign
attack Germany through Italy
Mussolini is removed from power
and Italians declare war on
Germany
-German troops make Italian
campaign last many months

Nazi Controlled Europe of 1942

D-Day
-Allies had planned an invasion of
the mainland
-Operation Overlord

-planned by Dwight Eisenhower
-June 6, 1944
-paratroopers invaded behind
enemy lines, thousands stormed
beaches of Normandy France
Omaha Beach

Utah Beach
-France liberated within weeks
General George Patton

The End is Near
-Battle of the Bulge Dec. 1944
last German counter-offensive
Germany is now in retreat
600,000 US Soldiers, 140K Allied
1/3 of US causalities – frostbite.

-massive bombing raids
-Roosevelt wins 4th term with
Harry Truman
-Soviet armies pushing into
Germany from the east

Germany started counter
Attack in December, wasn’t
Counting on American determination!

Soviets start pushing in
To Germany . . .

V-E Day
-Big 3 Continue to discuss end of
war
-U.S. British forces pushing toward
Berlin
-death camps found and Holocaust
is revealed
-Roosevelt dies and Truman
becomes President
-Hitler commits suicide as Russians
invade Berlin
-Germany surrenders May 1945
-V-E Day (Victory in Europe)

US History


Slide 18

US History

War Plans
-Roosevelt and British leader
Churchill meet

-Germany is top priority
-only an unconditional surrender
is acceptable
-Battle of the Atlantic
convoy system
Liberty ship building program
was producing great numbers
of ships to supply war
-Allies begin strategic bombing of
Germany to destroy war
capabilities

Eastern Front
-initial victories in USSR turn
into stalemate and the Russian
winter stops German advances
-Germany surround key city of
Stalingrad, 1942

-Germany is defeated at
Stalingrad at great cost
turning point of the
European war ***
-Stalin wants another “front’ to
occupy Germany

Africa/Italy
-invasion of Northern Africa by
British and American troops to
fight against Germany’s Afrika
Corps led by Erwin Rommel,
the Desert Fox
-Rommel’s forces eventually
defeated at El Alamein
-”Soft underbelly” campaign
attack Germany through Italy
Mussolini is removed from power
and Italians declare war on
Germany
-German troops make Italian
campaign last many months

Nazi Controlled Europe of 1942

D-Day
-Allies had planned an invasion of
the mainland
-Operation Overlord

-planned by Dwight Eisenhower
-June 6, 1944
-paratroopers invaded behind
enemy lines, thousands stormed
beaches of Normandy France
Omaha Beach

Utah Beach
-France liberated within weeks
General George Patton

The End is Near
-Battle of the Bulge Dec. 1944
last German counter-offensive
Germany is now in retreat
600,000 US Soldiers, 140K Allied
1/3 of US causalities – frostbite.

-massive bombing raids
-Roosevelt wins 4th term with
Harry Truman
-Soviet armies pushing into
Germany from the east

Germany started counter
Attack in December, wasn’t
Counting on American determination!

Soviets start pushing in
To Germany . . .

V-E Day
-Big 3 Continue to discuss end of
war
-U.S. British forces pushing toward
Berlin
-death camps found and Holocaust
is revealed
-Roosevelt dies and Truman
becomes President
-Hitler commits suicide as Russians
invade Berlin
-Germany surrenders May 1945
-V-E Day (Victory in Europe)

US History


Slide 19

US History

War Plans
-Roosevelt and British leader
Churchill meet

-Germany is top priority
-only an unconditional surrender
is acceptable
-Battle of the Atlantic
convoy system
Liberty ship building program
was producing great numbers
of ships to supply war
-Allies begin strategic bombing of
Germany to destroy war
capabilities

Eastern Front
-initial victories in USSR turn
into stalemate and the Russian
winter stops German advances
-Germany surround key city of
Stalingrad, 1942

-Germany is defeated at
Stalingrad at great cost
turning point of the
European war ***
-Stalin wants another “front’ to
occupy Germany

Africa/Italy
-invasion of Northern Africa by
British and American troops to
fight against Germany’s Afrika
Corps led by Erwin Rommel,
the Desert Fox
-Rommel’s forces eventually
defeated at El Alamein
-”Soft underbelly” campaign
attack Germany through Italy
Mussolini is removed from power
and Italians declare war on
Germany
-German troops make Italian
campaign last many months

Nazi Controlled Europe of 1942

D-Day
-Allies had planned an invasion of
the mainland
-Operation Overlord

-planned by Dwight Eisenhower
-June 6, 1944
-paratroopers invaded behind
enemy lines, thousands stormed
beaches of Normandy France
Omaha Beach

Utah Beach
-France liberated within weeks
General George Patton

The End is Near
-Battle of the Bulge Dec. 1944
last German counter-offensive
Germany is now in retreat
600,000 US Soldiers, 140K Allied
1/3 of US causalities – frostbite.

-massive bombing raids
-Roosevelt wins 4th term with
Harry Truman
-Soviet armies pushing into
Germany from the east

Germany started counter
Attack in December, wasn’t
Counting on American determination!

Soviets start pushing in
To Germany . . .

V-E Day
-Big 3 Continue to discuss end of
war
-U.S. British forces pushing toward
Berlin
-death camps found and Holocaust
is revealed
-Roosevelt dies and Truman
becomes President
-Hitler commits suicide as Russians
invade Berlin
-Germany surrenders May 1945
-V-E Day (Victory in Europe)

US History


Slide 20

US History

War Plans
-Roosevelt and British leader
Churchill meet

-Germany is top priority
-only an unconditional surrender
is acceptable
-Battle of the Atlantic
convoy system
Liberty ship building program
was producing great numbers
of ships to supply war
-Allies begin strategic bombing of
Germany to destroy war
capabilities

Eastern Front
-initial victories in USSR turn
into stalemate and the Russian
winter stops German advances
-Germany surround key city of
Stalingrad, 1942

-Germany is defeated at
Stalingrad at great cost
turning point of the
European war ***
-Stalin wants another “front’ to
occupy Germany

Africa/Italy
-invasion of Northern Africa by
British and American troops to
fight against Germany’s Afrika
Corps led by Erwin Rommel,
the Desert Fox
-Rommel’s forces eventually
defeated at El Alamein
-”Soft underbelly” campaign
attack Germany through Italy
Mussolini is removed from power
and Italians declare war on
Germany
-German troops make Italian
campaign last many months

Nazi Controlled Europe of 1942

D-Day
-Allies had planned an invasion of
the mainland
-Operation Overlord

-planned by Dwight Eisenhower
-June 6, 1944
-paratroopers invaded behind
enemy lines, thousands stormed
beaches of Normandy France
Omaha Beach

Utah Beach
-France liberated within weeks
General George Patton

The End is Near
-Battle of the Bulge Dec. 1944
last German counter-offensive
Germany is now in retreat
600,000 US Soldiers, 140K Allied
1/3 of US causalities – frostbite.

-massive bombing raids
-Roosevelt wins 4th term with
Harry Truman
-Soviet armies pushing into
Germany from the east

Germany started counter
Attack in December, wasn’t
Counting on American determination!

Soviets start pushing in
To Germany . . .

V-E Day
-Big 3 Continue to discuss end of
war
-U.S. British forces pushing toward
Berlin
-death camps found and Holocaust
is revealed
-Roosevelt dies and Truman
becomes President
-Hitler commits suicide as Russians
invade Berlin
-Germany surrenders May 1945
-V-E Day (Victory in Europe)

US History