Fighting World War II EQ What military strategies

Fighting World War II. EQ What military strategies did the United States and the allies pursue to defeat the Axis powers in WWII?

Preparing for war in Europe � Europe First.

Europeans Suffer under German Occupation. � Puppet Governments. � Forced to work in the German Arms Industry. � Russians, Poles and Slavs mistreated. � Jewish Question. How to best rid Germany of all Jews? ◦ ◦ Concentration Work Camps. Forced Jews in all Europe into ghettos. Warsaw Ghetto Final Solution: genocide. 1941. �Gas chambers �Jews, homosexuals, disabled people, captured Soviet Soldiers, Gypsies and others. �Each camp could kill tens of thousands of people each month.

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War in Europe � Allies Invade North Africa and Italy � November 1942 � Allied forces land in Morocco and Algeria � Led by Dwight D. Eisenhower. � British Forces stop Rommels Afrika Korps � Final offensive in May 1943 � Use North Africa as staging area to push into Italy. � July 23, 1943 Allies Take Sicily � July 24, 1943 Fascist Grand council restores king and parliament. Mussolini resigns. � Germany still controls North Germany.

Soviet Counteroffensive � Hitler sends troops into the Soviet Unions � June 1942. � Fighting continues until November � January 1943, German surrender, frozen. Starving. � Battle of Stalingrad cost Germany more than 200, 000 troops. � It cost the Soviet Union more than a million soldiers.

The war in the air � Precision bombing � Saturation bombing � Targeted oil refineries, rail yards, factories and u-boat bases. � Germany’s infrastructure and economy ruined.

Operation Overlord: Invasion of France � General � D-Day � 4, 000 Eisenhower landing craft � 10, 000 aircraft � Hundreds of tanks � June 6, 1944. � Continued to push into France � August 1944: Liberation of Paris � September 1944: American GI’s crossed into Germany.

Liberation of Concentration Camps

War in Europe Ends � December 1944 Allied Invasion slows � Battle of the Bulge: last German offensive. � April 1945 Red Army invading through Poland. � April 30, 1945 Soviet Soldiers approaching Berlin. � Adolf Hitler kills himself. � May 8, 1945, War in Europe officially ends. � VE Day, or Victory in Europe Day.

� Roosevelt died April 12, 1945 � Harry S. Truman takes office.

War in the Pacific