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CHAPTER 16 SECTION 4 MEMBERS DUANE DEEN TABATHA MYRES BRANDON HOBDEN DERRICK SHEPERED DAVIN DICKISON THE ALLIED VICTORY ON DECEMBER 22ND ,1941 , JUST AFTER PEARL HARBOR, WINSTON CHURCHILL AND PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT MET AT THE WHITE HOUSE TO MAKE A JOINT WAR POLICY. STALIN HAD ASKED TO RELIVE GERMAN PRESSURE ON HIS ARMIES IN THE EAST. CONTINUED….. HE WANTED THEM TO OPEN A SECOND FRONT ON THE WEST. THIS WOULD SPLIT THE GERMANS FOCES INTO TWO BY FORCING THEM TOFIGHT TO MAJOR BATTLES ON TWO FRONTS. CHURCHILL AGREED TO STALINS AGREEMENT, ROOSEVELT WAS TORN BUT SOON HE ULTIMATELY AGREED THE TIDE TURNS ON TWO FRONTS CHURCHILL WANTED BRITAIN AND THE UNITED STATES TO STRIKE FIRST AT NORTH AFRICA AND SOUTHERN EUROPE. STALIN DID NOT AGREE TO THIS STRATEGY. THERFORE THE SOVIET UNION HAD TO HOLD OUT ON ITS OWN AGAINST THE GERMANS. THE NORTH AFRICAN CAMPAIGN LONDON SENT GENERAL BERNARD MONTGOMERY TO TAKE CONTROL OF BRITISH FORCES IN NORTH AFRICA. BY THE TIME HE ARRIVED THE GERMANS HAD ALREADY ADVANCED TO AND EGPYTIAN VILLAGE CALLED EL ALAMEIN. DWIGHT D EISENHOWER-WAS THE AMERICAN GENERAL WHO LED US TO VICTORY THE BATTLE FOR STALINGRAD AS ROMMEL SUFERED DEFEATS IN NORTH AFRICA GERMANS ALSO MET THEIR MATCH WITH THE SOVIET UNION. THE BATTLE OF STALIN GRAD-BEGANON AUGUST 23,1942 BY EARLY NOVEMBER 1942 GERMAN C ONTROLLED NEARL 90% OF THE CITY ON FEBUARY 1943 90,000 HALF-STARVED FROST BITTEN GERMANS SURRENDERED TO THE SOVIETS THE INVASION OF ITALY AS THE BATTLE FOR STALINGRAD WENT ON STALIN CONTUNIED TO URGE US TO ATTACK THE FRENCH. HOWEVER ROOSEVELT AND CHURCHILL ATTACKED ITALLY FIRST. ON APRIL 27,1945 , ITALIAN RESISTANCE FIGHTTERS FOUND MUSSOLINI DISGUISED AS A GERMAN SOLDIER. THEY SHOT HIM THE NEXT DAY AND HUNG HIS BODY DOWN TOWN FOR ALL TO SEE. THE ALLIED HOME FRONTS WHERE EVER ALLIED TROOPS FOUGHT, PEOPLE ON THE HOME FRONT SEEMED TO SUPORT THEM ALL THE WAY. IN WAR-TORN COUNTRIES LIKE THE SOVIET UNION AND GREAT BRITAIN,CIVILLIANS HAD TO ENDURE HARDSHIPS. MOBILIZING FOR WAR DEFEATING THE AXIS POWERS REQUIRED MOBOLIZING FOR TOTAL WAR. BACK AT HOME OUR FACTORIES CONVERTED THEIR TIMES MAKING ITEMS FOR WAR. WITH FACTORIES MAKING WAR ITEMS A SHORTAGE CAME ON CONSUMER GOODS WAR LIMITS CIVIL RIGHTS GOVERNMENT PROPAGANDA ALSO HAD A NEGATIVE EFFECT. AFTER PEARL HARBOR A WAVE OF PREJUDICE AROSE IN THE UNITED STATES AGAINST THE JAPANESE. ON FEBUARY 19,1942, PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT ISSUED THAT ALL JAPANESE SHALL REPORT TO CONSEBTRATION CAMPS. VICTORY IN EUROPE WHILE ALLIES WERE DEALING WITH PROBLEMS ON HOME FRONT THEY WERE PREPARING FOR A VICTORY IN EUROPE. IN 1943 THEY SECRETLY BEGAN BUILDING A INVASION FORCE IN GREAT BRITAIN. THEIR PLAN WAS TO LAUNCH AN ATTACK ON GERMAN HELD FRANCE ACROSS THE ENGLISH CHANNEL. THE D-DAY INVASION BY MAY 1944 THE INVASION FORCE WAS READY. THOUSANDS OF PLANES,SHIPS,TANKS,AND LANDING CRAFT AND MORE THAN THREE MILLION TROOPS WERE PREPARING TO PUSH FOR VICTIORY IN EUROPE. CONTINUED….. GENERAL DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER THE COMMANDER OF THIS ENORMOS FORCE,PLANNED TO STRIKE NORMANDY. THE GERMANS KNEW AN ATTACK WAS COMING. NORMANDY WAS THE LARGEST LAND,SEA,AND AIR ATTACK IN HISTORY. THE INVASION BEGAN ON JUNE 6,1944 CONTINUED….. AT DAWN ON THAT DAY BRITISH, AMERICAN, FRENCH, AND CANADIAN TROOPS FOUGHT THERE WAY ONTO THE 60-MILE STRETCH OF BEACH. BY SEPTEMBER , THEY HAD LIBERATED FRANCE, BELGIUM ,AND LUXEMBURG. THEY THEN SET THEIR EYES ON GERMANY. THE BATTLE OF THE BULGE AS ALLIED FORCES PUSHED THERE WAY ON THE WEST AS DID THE SOVIET ARMY ON THE EAST HITLER NOW FACED A WAR ON TWO FRONTS. ON DECEMBER 16 GERMAN TANKS THRU WEAK AMERICAN DEFENCES ALONG ARDENNES. GIVING THIS BATTLE THE NAME BATTLE OF THE BULGE. GERMANYS UNCONDITIONL SURRENDER AFTER THE BATTLE OF THE BULGE, THE WAR IN EUROPE DREW TO A CLOSE. IN LATE MARCH 1945, THE ALLIES CROSSED THE RHINE RIVER INTO GERMANY. BYTHE MIDDLE OF APRIL A NOOSE WAS CLOSING AROUND GERMANY CONTINUED….. ABOUT 3 MILLION ALLIED SOILDERS APROCHED BERLIN. ANOTHER 6 MILLION SOVIETS APROCHED FROM THE EAST. BY APRIL 25,1945 THE SOVIETS HAD SURROUNDED THE CAPITAL. CONTINUED….. WHILE SOVIET SHELLS BURSTS OVER BERLIN, HITLER BEGAN PREPARING FOR HIS END. ON APRIL 29 HE MARRIED HIS LONG TIME COMPANION, EVA BRAUN. THE NEXT DAY HITLER, HIS WIFE, AND HITLERS DOG ALL COMMITTED SUICIDE. THE NEXT DAY THERE BODYS WERE THEN CARRIED OUT AND BURNED. THE JAPANESE IN RETREAT BY THE FALL OF 1944, THE ALLIES WERE MOVING IN ON JAPAN. IN OCTOBER ALLIES LANDED ON THE ISLAND OF LEYTE IN THE PHILIPPINES. THE KAMIKAZES-WERE JAPANESE SUICIDE PILOTS. THEY WOULD SINK ALLIED SHIPS BY CRASHING THERE BOMB FILLED AIRPLANES INTO THE SHIPS. THE JAPANESE SURRNDER AFTER OKINAWA, THE NEXT STOP FOR THE ALLIES WAS JAPAN PRESIDENT TRUMAN HAD TO MAKE THE CHOICE OF USING A NEW POWERFUL WEAPON CALLED A-BOMB. PRESIDENT TRUMAN WARNED THE JAPANESE TO SURRNEDER OR “ELSE” CONTINUED….. THEY DID NOT COMPLY. THE FIRST ATOMIC BOMB WAS THEN DROPPED ON AUGEST 6 1945 IN THE CITY OF HIROSHIMA. THE SECOND BOMB WAS DROPPED THE NEXT DAY IN THE CITY OF NAGASAKI. HIROSHIMA:DAY OF FIRE GROUND TEMP. 7,000 DEGREES HURRICANE WINDS 980 MILES PER HOUR ENERGY RELEASED 20,000 TONS OF TNT BUILDINGS DESTROYED 62,000 BUILDINGS KILED IMEDIATLEY 70,000 PEOPLE DEAD BY 1945 140,000 PEOPLE TOTAL DEATHS BY BOMB A- 210,000 PEOPLE Puzzle QUIZ 1). WHY DID STALIN AND THE UNITED STATES AND BRITAIN TO LAUNCH A SECOND FRONT ON THE WEST? 2). HOW DID THE ALLIES TRY TO CONCEAL THE TRUE LOCATION FOR THE D-DAY LANDINGS? 3). WHAT BROUGHT ABOUT THE JAPANESE SURRENDER? 4). WHICH BATTLE DO YOU THINK WAS THE MOST IMPORTANT TURN FOR THE ALLIES? 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