Download Europe After Pearl Harbor

WWII IN EUROPE
Overall Allied Strategy in Europe
- ______________________________________________
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Major Military Leaders
- U.S. Gen. _______________________: Supreme Allied Commander in Europe known as "Ike"
- U.S. Gen. Omar Bradley: General of the Army in North Africa and Europe
- U.S. Gen. George S. Patton: tank commander known as "Old Blood and Guts"
- British Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery: tank commander in Africa and Europe
- Gen. Erwin Rommel: German tank commander known as the "Desert Fox"
1941
- December 7th - Japanese attack ____________________________________
- December 8th - U.S. officially declares war after FDR's "_____________________________________
____________________________" address to Congress
- December 11th - Germany declares was on the U.S.
1942
- August 21st - Battle (Siege) of ___________________ begins; stalemate between U.S.S.R. and Germany
- November 8th - American forces land in _______________________________; Operation Torch begins
1943
- February 2nd - Soviets defeat Germans at Stalingrad and begin pushing back German forces
- May 13th - Axis forces repelled from North Africa
- July 10th - August 17th - Allies take Sicily
- September 3rd - Allied invasion of Italy begins
- September 8th - _______________________________________________________________________
1944
- June 4th - Rome falls and Italy is under Allied control
- June 6th - ___________________________________________________
- Overall plan was called ___________________________________________; it was developed
in late 1943 to open a second front against the Germans and help relieve Stalin's forces in the East
- In the lead up to the assaults Eisenhower was put in charge of organizing around 1 million
combat troops and another 2 million support troops
- June 5th
- Massive aerial bombardment of German forces to cut off communications lines and
destroy bridges that might allow reinforcements to arrive
- 2,700 British, French, Canadian, and American ships sail for the Normandy coastline
- June 6th
- Three airborne divisions (British 6th Airborne, American 82nd and 101st Airborne)
parachute in behind enemy lines to cut off retreat
- 156,000 troops land along the __________________________________ at five beaches
- 50,000 Germans try to repel assault from positions along the fortified Atlantic Wall
- All five beaches were secured by nightfall
- 4,400 Allied troops were killed and another 6,000 were wounded; estimated between
4,000 and 9,000 German casualties
- August 25th - ________________________________ after Operation Cobra (fighting in the hedgerow
country); ______________________________ is installed as head of the provisional French government
- December 16th - The __________________________________________ (Hitler's last offensive) begins
- Soviet forces have pushed deep into Germany and liberated all of Hitler's Eastern European conquests
1945
- January 25th - The Battle of the Bulge ends in an Allied victory
- February 4th - 11th - Yalta Conference
- March 30th - _________________________________________
- April 20th - ________________________________________________ and push as far west as possible
- April 30th - __________________________________________
- May 2nd - ___________________________________________
- May 8th - VE-Day (Karl Dönitz surrenders all German forces)
- July 17th - August 2nd - Potsdam Conference