Download Allied Turning Points in WWII

Allied Turning Points in WWII
Agenda:
1.Century DVD
2.Allied Turning Point Notes
3.Battles Chart
• Recap
The Century DVD
• 1936 Berlin Olympics
• Hitler’s “Nazi Olympics”
• Used as Propaganda to convince the world that
Germany was powerful again post WWI
• Jesse Owens
• Early WWII Acts of Aggression
Entry Task
• What words describe Britain after the Blitz?
• Why would America end their neutrality and start
helping Britain?
• Do you think lending money and weapons to only
one side in a war, should be considered an act of
war? Why/why not
America’s Involvement in WWII Grows
• 1941-FDR & Congress pass Lend-Lease Act
• Could sell or lend war materials to “any
country whose defense the President
deems vital to the defense of the US”
• August 1941-Atlantic Charter
• FDR & Churchill secretly meet on warship
• Atlantic Charter: Set goals for the war and
for the postwar world
• Support “the right of all peoples to choose
the form of government under which they
will live” (self determination)
America’s Involvement & War in the Pacific
• Work with your table group to read the
documents and complete the charts
Japan Attacks
• 1940 Japan advances into French Indochina &
Dutch East Indies
• US banned sale to Japan of oil (angered
Japanese)
• US & Japan held talks to ease tensions
• Extreme militarist-General Tojo Hideki was
gaining power in Japan
• Militarists wanted to seize lands in Asia & the
Pacific and US was interfering
• Tojo ordered surprise attack on US fleet
• Dec 7 1941: Attack on Pearl Harbor
• Destroyed 19 ships, destroyed US planes, killed
over 2,400 people
• FDR asks Congress to declare war on Japan
• Dec 11 1941: Germany & Italy declare war on US
• Long run: Attack was serious mistake for Japan
• European & US possessions in Pacific fell to
Japanese
• Beg of 1942-Japanese empire was HUGE
Attack on Pearl Harbor
Allied War Front
• Entry of US added strength to Allies
• 1942: Big 3 agree to finish war in Europe before
turning attention to Asia
• Home front: Total war
• Factories produce resources for war effort
• Gov’t censorship & propaganda
• Decrease in civil rights (ex-US Japanese Internment
camps)
Turning Points
Battle of Alamein: North Africa
• With help from American forces
advancing from the west, the Allies
trapped Rommel’s army in 1943, & he
surrendered
• Allies could now attack Europe from
N. Africa
• Head towards Italy
Invasion of Italy
• Great Britain & US send troops into Italy
• Italians overthrow Mussolini but Hitler sends
troops to Italy to restore his power
• This weakened Hitler’s forces in Western Europe!
Battle of Stalingrad
• Bitter battle in which Hitler & Stalin were both determined
to win
• Russian troops and freezing winter caused German troops
to surrender
• Red Army drove Germans out of the SU & then began
advancing towards Germany
The Allies Liberate Rome
June 5, 1944
Invasion of Normandy
• 1944-Allies were ready to open a 2nd front in Europe
w/invasion of France
• Dwight Eisenhower was supreme allied commander
• D-Day, June 6th 1944, Allies storm beaches of France.
• They broke through German defenses to advance toward Paris
and freed France from German control
• Allies then moved from France into Germany
Operation Overlord
General Dwight
Eisenhower gives
the order for D-Day
Normandy Landing
June 6, 1944
German Prisoners
Higgins Landing Crafts
Dec. 16, 1944
to
Jan. 28, 1945
Battle of the Bulge:
Hitler’s last offensive
Battle of the Bulge
• Dec. 16, 1944: Last German offensive Jan. 16,
1945: Bloodiest battle of the war & Germany
loses
• Feb. 4, 1945:Yalta Conference-Big 3 meet (FDR,
Churchill, & Stalin)
• U.S. and Britain agree to allow Stalin to control
Eastern Europe after the war ends.
The End of Mussolini & Hitler
• March 1945: German forces retreat into Germany as U.S. troops cross the
Rhine on the country's Western Front.
• April 1945: Mussolini and his mistress are hung in Milan
• April 30, 1945: As Soviet forces from the Eastern Front encircle Berlin,
Hitler, in a bombproof bunker, poisons his mistress, Eva Braun, and shoots
himself. Their bodies are hastily cremated in a garden.
Hitler Commits Suicide
Cyanide & Pistols
The Führer’s Bunker
Mr. & Mrs. Hitler
Victory in Europe (V.E. Day): May 8, 1945
Now the Allies had to turn their
attention to the Pacific Theater
Battles Chart
• Use legitimate websites….wikipedia will either give you too much info or
not enough
• Make sure your giving long and short term outcomes of the battles
• Keep it simple!