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War Plans-Roosevelt and British leader

Churchill meet

-Germany is top priority

-only an unconditional surrender is acceptable

-Battle of the Atlantic

convoy system

Liberty ship building program was producing great numbers of ships to supply war

-Allies begin strategic bombing of Germany to destroy war capabilities

Eastern Front

-initial victories in USSR turn into stalemate and the Russian winter stops German advances

-Germany surround key city of Stalingrad, 1942

-Germany is defeated at Stalingrad at great cost

turning point of the European war ***

-Stalin wants another “front’ to occupy Germany

Africa/Italy-invasion of Northern Africa by

British and American troops to fight against Germany’s Afrika Corps led by Erwin Rommel, the Desert Fox

-Rommel’s forces eventually defeated at El Alamein

-”Soft underbelly” campaign

attack Germany through Italy

Mussolini is removed from power and Italians declare war on Germany

-German troops make Italian campaign last many months

Nazi Controlled Europe of 1942

D-Day-Allies had planned an invasion of

the mainland

-Operation Overlord

-planned by Dwight Eisenhower

-June 6, 1944

-paratroopers invaded behind enemy lines, thousands stormed beaches of Normandy France

Omaha Beach

Utah Beach

-France liberated within weeks

General George Patton

The End is Near

-Battle of the Bulge Dec. 1944

last German counter-offensive

Germany is now in retreat

600,000 US Soldiers, 140K Allied

1/3 of US causalities – frostbite.

-massive bombing raids

-Roosevelt wins 4th term with Harry Truman

-Soviet armies pushing into Germany from the east

Germany started counterAttack in December, wasn’t

Counting on American determination!

Soviets start pushing in To Germany . . .

V-E Day

-Big 3 Continue to discuss end of war

-U.S. British forces pushing toward Berlin

-death camps found and Holocaust is revealed

-Roosevelt dies and Truman becomes President

-Hitler commits suicide as Russians invade Berlin

-Germany surrenders May 1945

-V-E Day (Victory in Europe)

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Note Page 42War in Europe