Why did the Allies win WWII Lesson 3

Why did the Allies win WWII? Lesson 3: Allied Strategies

• Strategies used by the Allies – Strategic bombing was particularly effective against Japan, where it was used to destroy Japanese industry and kill or force out its civilian workforce • Firebombing Tokyo killed between 80, 000 and 130, 000 people • Nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki killed about 200, 000 people – The US and Britain attacked Normandy in Northern France to begin taking Western Europe from the Germans • German troops were tied down fighting in Italy and against the Soviets • The Allies used misdirection to further spread out the German lines in France

Guiding Question: How did Allied strategies lead to the defeat of the Axis? • You will now do research to answer the guiding question – Look for secondary sources on jstor. org and scholar. google. com – Look for primary sources at the websites below. You can also just search for primary sources on any given topic • http: //guides. lib. washington. edu/content. php? pid=90255&sid=687755 • http: //www. nationalww 2 museum. org/learn/education/forteachers/primary-sources/ • http: //avalon. law. yale. edu/subject_menus/wwii. asp • http: //www. theatlantic. com/infocus/2011/09/world-war-ii-the-easternfront/100150/ • http: //english. iremember. ru/ – This site may also be useful: http: //www. bbc. co. uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/how_the_allie s_won_01. shtml – For every source that you find, perform all four steps of source analysis and write down all bibliographic information