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I. The Allies Plan for Victory
 The Conference at the White House (1941)
 Churchill: leader of ___Britain__
 Roosevelt: president of __United States_
 Stalin: leader of _Soviet Union____
 Allies: __Britain__, __United States__, __Soviet Union__
 Axis Powers: _Germany__, __Italy___, __Japan__
 Eastern Front = __Soviet Union__
 Western Front that Stalin wanted U.S. and Britain to attack= __France__
 Stalin wanted U.S. and Britain to attack _France_so that the German army
in Russia would go to France
II. The Tide Turns on Two Fronts
*GERMANY VS U.S. IN AFRICA
 Churchill broke the agreement and attacked __North Africa__, a German
colony in 1942.
 The German army in __North Africa__ was led by General Erwin Rommel.
 The British army sent to defeat Rommel was led by General Bernard
Montgomery.
 Rommel was defeated by Montgomery in _El Alamein__.
 General Dwight D. Eisenhower: an __American__ general.
 Operation __Torch____: Eisenhower’s plan to attack Rommel’s army, which
was now in between Morocco and Algeria. The plan was a success.
*GERMANY VS SOVIET UNION
 The German army in Soviet Union was planning to take over _Stalingrad___
 Hitler wanted _Stalingrad__ because it had rich oil fields.
 The _Battle of Stalingrad__: the battle between Germany and Soviet Union
over Stalingrad
 Germany attacked Stalingrad using the Luftwaffe
 Luftwaffe: _German air force__
 The German army was dying because it was __winter__ in Russia
 In 1943, the German army surrendered to the Soviets.
 Germany now focused on __defending__ the land they had in Soviet Union,
instead of conquering more.
*CASABLANCA CONFERENCE
 Stalin wanted the British and the Americans to defeat the German army in
__France___.
 Casablanca Conference: _Roosevelt__ and __Churchill__ met at Casablanca,
Morocco, and planned to attack _Italy___.
 Roosevelt wanted an __unconditional surrender___ from Germany.
 _Unconditional Surrender__: a surrender without conditions that benefit
Germany
*Allies VS Axis Powers in ITALY
 The Allies took control of Sicily in _Italy___
 Mussolini was ___arrested__, but Hitler made him the dictator of Italy again.
 The Allies defeated Germany, and Germany retreated from Italy.
 __Mussolini__ was shot after he was found hiding in a German truck.
III. Life on the Home Fronts
 U.S. citizens helped the U.S. army through _mobilization__
 _Mobilization_: Changing for total war. American factories produced war
materials instead of consumer goods
 __Ration__: Distributing products in limited amounts
 U.S government used _propaganda___ to encourage people to mobilize.
 U.S. government used _propaganda__ to also isolate __Japanese Americans__.
 President Roosevelt set up a _detention camp___ for the Japanese Americans in
1942.
 U.S. military officials banished Japanese Americans into restricted military
areas.
 Even the __Nisei__, Japanese Americans who were native born American
citizens, were put into these detention camps.
IV. Allied Victory in Europe
* Attack towards Germany
 Who were trying to attack Germany? The Allies
 The location for attacking Germany was (another name for the D- Day
Invasion)
Normandy
 The General leading the D- Day Invasion was
Dwight D. Eisenhower
 How did the General plan to attack Germany? Describe.
Dwight D. Eisenhower planned to set up fake tanks in France to make the
Germans think that the Allies were landing in France. But the Allies were
actually landing in Normandy, the north of France.
* the bold words are the main words that the students need to answer
* The Battle of the Bulge

Soviet Union
was attacking the Germany in the east, while
US and
Britain
were attacking from the
west
 Hitler decided to attack the
west
first.
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 In December 16 , Germans invaded the American army in France
* Germany's Unconditional Surrender
 Hitler married
Eva Braun
 V-E day stands for:
Victory
V. Victory in the Pacific
 Japan fought
Pacific
in
Europe
, while Allies were celebrating
* The Japanese Retreat
 General leading the attack towards Japan was Mac Arthur
 The Battle of Leyte Gulf was held at Leyte, Philippines
 The suicide bombers were called __kamikaze__
 The another name for “the bloodiest land battle” is “the battle of Okinawa”
* The Atomic Bomb Brings Japanese Surrender
 After allies conquered the island, Okinawa, their main goal became Japan.
 The president during this invasion was President Truman
 The “rain of ruin from the air” that threatened the Japanese armies was atomic
bomb
 The first city to drop the bomb was Hiroshima
 The second city to drop the bomb was
Nagasaki