The War in EuropeToday's Objectives

1)Identify how WWII looked like in 1942.

2)Examine the Holocaust

3)Discuss how the Allies defeated Germany

Allied Commanders of WWII

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

- George S. Patton

- Bernard Montgomery

- George C. Marshall

- Benjamin O. Davis

Battle of the Atlantic (1939-1945)

• Allied fleets vs. German U-Boats

• Allies use Convoy system to beat Germans.

Getting in to Europe

• Operation Torch

• Allies invaded North Africa.

• Wanted control of Mediterranean, be able to strike Southern Europe.

Invading Italy (1943)

- Operation Husky

- Led by Gen. George Patton

- Southern Italy taken

- Rome falls ( May 25th, 1944 )

- Mussolini is killed by Italians!

- Germans occupy northern half

Of country.

The Liberation of France

- Operation Overlord (June 6th, 1944)

- Western Allies had to prepare for over 1 year for landing.

- 160,000 soldiers (27,000 Paratroopers)

- 5,000 ships

- Allied success, 10,000 Allied soldiers die.

The Yalta Conference (Feb 4th, 1945)

- Demanded unconditional surrender of Axis powers.

- Promised Democratic elections in all European countries post-war.

The Allied Advance in the West

- Paris is liberated ( Aug. 1944 )

- The Battle of the Bulge (Dec. 1944)

- Last German Offensive

- It fails.

- Western Allies let Red Army take Berlin (May 7th, 1945)

The Holocaust (1942-1945)

Holocaust: Targeted extermination of European Jews.

Genocide: Deliberate annihilation of an entire people.

- “The Final Solution” for Nazi Germany.

- 12 million killed in total, 6 million Jewish people.