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Chapter 16 – World War II
Section 4 – The Allies are Victorious
Main Idea- Led by the US, Great Britain, and
the Soviet Union, the Allies scored key
victories and won the war
Why It Matters Now- The Allies’ victory in
WWII set up conditions for both the Cold War
and today’s post-Cold War world
The Allies Plan for Victory
• When the US joins the war, the Allies open 2nd
front in the West
Tide Turns on Two Fronts
• Rommel gets destroyed when Allies enter N. Africa
– Gen. “Monty” Montgomery leads British forces
– Operation Torch:
• Gen. Eisenhower started in Morocco surrounding Desert Fox
VS.
Rommel
&
Montgomery
Eisenhower
Tide Turns Cont…
• USSR fights and defeats Germany at Stalingrad
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qd_Wt4N1Sss
• Allies start to move thru S. Europe and Italy
– July 10, 1943: Sicily falls to Allies
– April 28, 1945: Mussolini found and hung in Milan
town square
Life on Allied Home Fronts
• Civilians help at home with war effort
– TOTAL WAR: factories transformed into weapons
making industries
– RATIONING and PROPAGANDA are used again
• Feb 19, 1942- FDR sets up internment and loss
of property program
– 127,000 Japanese-Americans
placed in camps (traitors/spies)
Allied Victory in Europe
• June 6, 1944- D-Day (Operation
Overlord) begins in Normandy,
France
• Dec 16, 1944- Battle of the
Bulge in Ardennes Forest
– German counterattack, last ditch
effort to break through Allies line
Allied Victory Cont…
• Soviets invade from the East, Allies form the
West
– Hitler is trapped in middle and commits suicide
– Germany surrenders
• May 7, 1945- Gen. Eisenhower accepts unconditional
surrender of Third Reich
Victory in the Pacific
• Japanese start to retreat, Allies close in on Japan
but with heavy human cost
• Avoiding an invasion of Japan and saving Allied
lives, the US drops atom bombs on Japan forcing
surrender
– Manhattan Project: top secret project to create atomic
bombs
Aug 6, 1945:
Hiroshima
bombed
(73,000 die)
Aug 9, 1945:
Nagasaki
bombed
(70,000 die)
– Sept 2, 1945: Japanese surrender to Gen.
MacArthur on the Missouri