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World War II
The Allied Victory 1943 - 45
Beating the Nazis
The battle of _________________ proved to be
the turning point of the war between Russia and
Germany. Russia’s cold __________ and superior
______________ stalled the German advance and
allowed them to surround and capture many of the
invaders, who began their long retreat back to
Germany.
Victory in Africa & Italy
Lacking men and supplies, Erwin Rommel’s Afrika Korps
were finally driven out of Africa by the Allies. The decisive
battle was led by British General Montgomery at _________.
The Allies then crossed the Mediterranean and invaded
______. Rome was ______________ in 1944 and the
Italians switched sides against the Nazis. Fleeing for his life,
______________ was caught and killed by Italians partisans.
Crushing Nazi Germany
The US, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union were the main Allied forces and
formed the ________________________. All three nations agreed to fight until
Germany and Japan surrendered _______________.
The Allied liberation of Europe began with the
invasion of ________________ on June 6th 1944.
D-Day was the greatest amphibious landing in
history, and forced Hitler to fight a ___________ war.
Shortly after D-Day the Americans liberated ________, which had suffered four
years of Nazi oppression. After freeing France, the Allies encountered fierce
Nazi resistance on the way to ___________.
The US air force ___________ German cities by day
while the British bombed them by night. The
constant bombing crippled German war __________,
and broke the Germans’ will to fight.
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After their victory at Stalingrad, the Russians
went on the ________________ and slowly
advanced over the next two years. In the
spring of 1945 Soviet troops reached
________ from the east as American troops
arrived from the west.
Hitler and his wife committed ____________
in their Berlin bunker as the Allies closed in.
On May 8th, 1945, Germany surrendered,
and the European war was over.
Crushing Japan
After the battle of __________ the US took the offensive against
Japan. US forces waged an “___________________________”
campaign with the goal of recapturing Japanese-held islands
that would serve as stepping stones to the Japanese mainland.
______ bases were built on captured islands from
which US bombers could hit Japan. Territory was
gained after bloody battles such as Coral Sea,
Guadalcanal, Tarawa ___________, and Okinawa.
To end the war, the US dropped
atomic bombs on ____________
and ______________. Japan
surrendered soon after and
WWII was over.
World War II resulted in a total death toll of approximately
_____________, the most deaths in the history of warfare.
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