Retaking Europe

Retaking Europe

Unit 4Lesson 6

(Section 25.2)

Objectives:

Evaluate US mobilization efforts.

Analyze Allied war goals and strategies for victory.

Identify key events and major turning points in WW2.

Describe the liberation of Europe.

Warm Up:

What world events forced the US to abandon its policy of isolationism and move from neutrality to involvement in WW2?

Review

Identify 5 things the US did to mobilize for the war.

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Evaluating the Situation

Axis Domination 1940-1942

Allied War Strategy

Allied War Strategy1. Dem. Euro

2. New Internatl Org.

3. Hitler 1st- Thru FRA

4. Japan 2nd

Allied War Strategy

1. Dem Euro

2. British Empire

3. Limited Soviet influence

4. Hitler 1st- From N. AFR

Allied War Strategy1. SURVIVAL

2. Hitler Immediately,

need Allies to open W. Front

Turnaround: Allied Offensive

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Battle of the Atlantic

North African Campaign

Italian Campaign

War in Soviet Union

Allied Invasion Western Europe

Battle of the Bulge

German Surrender

Battle of the Atlantic

1942-43

Goal: Stop GRM wolf packs cutting supplies to Allies

Turnaround: Convoy, Sonar/Radar, # of

ships

N.Africa – “Operation Torch”

Nov 1942

Goal: Stop Rommel’s ‘Afrika

Corps’ from claiming oil, Suez

Canal

Turnaround: GB @ El Alamein, US

@ Morocco and Algeria

Surrender: May 43 @ Tunisia

Casablanca Conference – Euro 1st, Uncondtl Surrender

Italian Invasion – “Oper Shingle”

Summer 43

Goal: Attack “Soft Underbelly” of Axis,

divert attention

Turnaround: ITL people throw out

Mussolini…Jan 44 Bloody Anzio

Surrender: June 1944 liberate Rome,

Mussolini captured April 45

War in Soviet Union

Why break Non-Aggression Pact?

“Living Space”

Oil & food

Why successful?USSR poorly trained & armed, unprepared

Oppressed by Stalin support GRM troops

Total destructionStalin said leave nothing for GRMNS

Defending Stalingrad

1942-43

Goal: Defend rail/industrial center,

oil fields

Turnaround: Winter 42, Soviet

counterattack / tactics (house-to-house)

Surrender: Feb 43

(~1.5m dead)

W.Euro – “Operation Overlord”

D-Day:June 6, 1944

Allied Goal: Invade Euro center

Tactics: Massive land, air & sea

invasion Normandy, FRA

Turnaround: Allied attrition (1 mil troops by July)

Surrender: Aug ’44 liberate Paris, Sept

free neighbors

FDR Wins 4th Term!

Nov 1944 – FDR and Truman (VP)

Battle of the Bulge

Dec 16, 1944

GRM Goal: Last ditch effort, Split Allied defenses, force pro-

Axis peace

Turnaround: Winter (froze oil/weapons), GRM uses up

reserves

(largest battle WW2, US ever)

Surrender: Jan 15, 45

The Yalta Conference

Feb 1945

FDR, Churchill, Stalin

Postwar WorldGRM split 4 zones

• Berlin as well

E.Euro elections• Stalin breaks promise

USSR enter war w/JPN

FDR Dies– April 12, 1945

Victory in EuropeApril 25, 1945: Soviets storm

Berlin

April 28, 45: Mussolini executed

April 30, 45: Hitler suicide

May 8, 1945: VE DAY!!

Victory in Europe

Closure

If you were a newspaper journalist, what would you write about the US contribution to victory in Europe?