Chapter 25(2). How did the Americans help turn the tide in the Battle of the Atlantic? -Organizing...
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Chapter 25(2). How did the Americans help turn the tide in the Battle of the Atlantic? -Organizing cargo ships into convoys -Developed a crash shipbuilding
How did the Americans help turn the tide in the Battle of the
Atlantic? -Organizing cargo ships into convoys -Developed a crash
shipbuilding program 1943: built 140 Liberty Ships each month/more
than Germany was sinking
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Why was the Battle of Stalingrad considered a turning point in
the war? The Soviets defeated the Germans and could now begin to
move westward toward Germany. Soviet Union lost 1 million soldiers
The Germans were not prepared for the freezing weather.
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Allied troops capture Sicily. The king strips Mussolini of his
power You are the most hated man in Italy. Germany decides to send
troops to Italy, instead of facing the Allied troops on German
soil
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An African American Air Force regiment. Received the militarys
highest honor. Called the Red Tails Trained at Tuskegee Air Force
Base in Alabama
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Date: June 6 th, 1944 Involved: British, Americans, &
Canadian troops Code Name: Operation Overlord Where: Normandy,
France Strategy: Land-sea-air operation. Deliver massive amounts of
soldiers at one time Outcome: Allies freed French Capital. Began
liberation of Europe
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Germany lost so many troops and weapons that it couldnt replace
them. All it could do after this battle was retreat. Lost: 120,000
troops 600 tanks 1,600 planes
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Israel Lau was just 8 years old when an American Jewish
Chaplain, smiling and weeping, embraced him in Buchenwald on April
11, 1945. How old are you, my child? he asked. What difference does
it make. Im older than you, I answered. Why do you think you are
older than me? he asked. Because you cry and laugh as a child. And
I cant even cry. So I must be older than you.
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We started smelling a terrible odor and suddenly we were at the
concentration camp at Landsberg. Forced the gate and faced hundreds
of starving prisoners.We saw emaciated men whose thighs were
smaller than wrists, many had bones sticking out thru their
skinAlso we saw hundreds of burned and naked bodiesThat evening I
wrote my wife that For the first time I truly realized the evil of
Hitler and why this war had to be waged. -Robert T. Johnson
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Hitler blamed the Jews for starting the war, and the generals
for losing it. April 30 th, 1945 Hitler shot himself. He was then
carried outside, soaked in gasoline, and set on fire according to
his orders.