Liberation of EuropeChapter 11: section 3

Allies Advance

• Soviets advancing from east, Allies from west

• Germans lose hope• Try to kill Hitler• Rommel kills himself

• Battle of the Bulge• Allies surprised• Created a bulge in the American line, captured key

towns• Crippled Germany

Allied Victory

• January 1945 – Soviets outside Berlin

• April – Mussolini executed, US and GB in Germany

• April 30 – Hitler and assoc. commit suicide

• May 7 – VE DAY!!!• Where is FDR?

The Pacific

• Island Hopping – taking some Japanese islands and leaving others

• Japanese soldiers fight to the death• Kamikaze

• Iwo Jima (Feb and March 1945)• 23,000 Marines Died

• Okinawa (April 1945)• 50,000 die

• Why was the island-hopping campaign in the Pacific so deadly to both sides?

Iwo Jima and ending the war

Assignment

• Create a timeline covering the events in section 1 (p. 354 – 360) and section 3 (p. 370 – 379)