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George Marshall
George Marshall
 Appointed the Army
Chief of Staff as WWII
began
 Planned and equipped
the United States Army
to ready for war
 Coordinated the war
effort from Washington
D.C., Churchill called him
the architect of victory.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight D. Eisenhower
video
 Supreme Commander of
the Allied invasion force
during the invasion of
Nazi-occupied France.
 Planned the attack on
the five beaches at
Normandy that would
become D-Day and begin
the liberation of Europe.
 Later elected President
of the United States in
1952
Omar Bradley
Omar Bradley
 Commander in North
Africa and Italy during
World War II
 Commanded 12th Army
group of American
forces landing at Omaha
beach in Normandy,
France
 Known as “the Soldier's
General”
George Patton
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Patton Film Clip
George Patton
 Colorful and brilliant tank
commander and general
who led the American 3rd
Army.
 Also known as “Old
Blood and Guts”
 Spearheaded the final
attack into Germany,
freeing vast territory
from the Nazis.
D-Day
D-Day
D-Day
D-Day
D-Day
D-Day
D-Day
D-Day
D-Day
Video – 40 minutes
Saving Private Ryan –
opening 3 minutes
“safe version”
 June 6, 1944
 Also known as Operation
Overlord
 Allies crossed the English
channel and invaded
German-held France at
beaches of Normandy.
 The largest amphibious
assault in human history
and the turning point in
European liberation.
Battle of the Bulge
Battle of the Bulge
 This was a push to the
west by the Germans that
created a bulge in the lines
in December 1944.
 This was the last Nazi
offensive in the war
 Allies began to drive
toward Berlin from east
(Soviets) and west (USA
and Britain)
 World War II Interactive Map
The New European
Map
Liberation of Concentration Camps
 The Germans used
concentrations camps for
forced labor to build war
material
 Filled these camps with
Jews and other
unacceptable peoples of
Liberation of
Concentration Camp society
 Later many of these camps
Video
became death camps
Band of Brothers  Americans liberated these
camps as they overtook the
German positions
Holocaust
Holocaust
Holocaust
Holocaust
Holocaust
 Nazi Germany’s
systematic slaughter of
European Jews
 The Jews were first used
as forced labor.
 Approximately 6 million
Jews were killed in
extermination camps
Genocide
Genocide
 The deliberate
annihilation of an entire
people or nationality.
American Heroes
Vernon Baker
Vernon Baker
video
 Vernon Baker, a black
U.S. soldier who
belatedly received the
Medal of Honor for his
World War II battlefield
valor after historians
concluded he'd been
wrongly denied the
military's top award
because of his race
Audie Murphy
Audie Murphy
 During a battle in
Germany, at the age of
19, Murphy became the
nation's most-decorated
soldier, earning an
unparalleled 28 medals
including the Medal of
Honor
 From Hunt County,
Texas; after his service,
he became a Hollywood
actor
Tuskegee Airmen
Tuskegee Airmen
Video
 The first AfricanAmerican military
aviators in the United
States armed forces
 Part of the 332nd Fighter
Group, the only
operational unit of
African-American pilots
 Nicknamed "Red Tails“
 One of the most
successful combat units
in the war
Yalta Conference
Yalta Conference
 February 1945
 Churchill, Roosevelt, and
Stalin met to discuss postwar Europe.
 Agreed to divide Germany
into four zones of
occupation.
 Stalin wanted Germans to
pay reparations, but other
Allies disagreed.
 A “Declaration of Liberated
Europe” was signed, but
disagreements would lead
to Cold War.
The New European
Map
Site
The death of Hitler
 April 30, 1945
 Hitler and his girlfriend,
Eva Braun, committed
suicide by biting down on
cyanide capsules
 There are reports that he
also shot himself