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Retaking Europe
The liberation of Europe from Axis control and the defeat of Hitler’s Nazi Germany
and Fascist Italy
The Atlantic Charter
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Battle of the Atlantic
Winning control of Atlantic shipping lanes to allow movement of military from the
United States to Europe.
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North African Campaign
1941:___________________________________________
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The “Desert Fox” Advances
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Battle of EL ALAMEIN
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OPERATION TORCH
Allied operation to capture
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American forces under General
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Montgomery’s British forces push Germans from the
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German Afrika Corps ___________________________.
Casablanca Conference
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Stalin and FDR & Churchill
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The Big Three.
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Uncle Joe
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Stalin and Western Allies
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Invasion of Italy
“The Soft Underbelly of the Axis”
FDR & Churchill
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________________________________________________________________ – Italy.
Invasion of Italy
July 1943:
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– is “captured” by the Germans and evacuated to northern Italy
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(35 miles
South of Rome)
Italian Campaign
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Invasion of Italy
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January, 1944
April 28 1945,
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__________________________________________________, “Shoot me in the chest.”
War in the Soviet Union
OPERATION BARBAROSSA
June 22, 1941:
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HITLER’S GREATEST MISTAKE DURING THE WAR.
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Stalin orders a _______________________________________________
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Stalin asks for help from the Allies – ____________________________
___________________________ Soviets
RUSSIAN WINTER
Advance of the German army ___________________________________
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Battle of Stalingrad
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January 1943:
Allied Air War
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• Strategic Carpet Bombing:
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Dresden after bombing raid --
D-DAY
The Great Crusade to liberate Western Europe from Adolf Hitler’s stranglehold
Invasion of Western Europe
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January 1944 Allies ________________________________________________
Hitler’s Atlantic Wall
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General Erwin Rommel
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Where?
Allies wanted Hitler
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Allied Deception
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GARBO
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OPERATION OVERLORD
Airborne divisions drop behind German defenses and cut off German
reinforcements from interior.
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Bad Weather
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Invasion set for ________________
D-Day Invasion
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Liberating France
• August, 1944:
• August 25, 1944:
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The Battle of the Bulge
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Soviet Forces Advance
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Soviets Take Berlin
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V-E Day
Victory in Europe Day
May 7, 1945
Yalta Conference
• Feb. 1945: Churchill, FDR, & Stalin meet in Yalta (Soviet Union)
– Planned the final defeat of Germany
– Decide the shape of the postwar world
– Agreed to split Germany in 4 parts (each would be controlled by one
of the major Allies)
– Agreed upon the division of Berlin
– Stalin promised to allow elections in Eastern European countries
liberated from the Germans
– Stalin also promised to enter the war against Japan within 3 months
of Germany’s surrender