War Plans -Roosevelt and British leader Churchill meet -Germany is top priority -only an unconditional surrender is acceptable -Battle of the Atlantic.
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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
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
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
-German troops make Italian campaign last many months
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
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
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
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
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
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
-massive bombing raids
-Roosevelt wins 4th term with Harry Truman
-Soviet armies pushing into Germany from the east
The End is Near
-Battle of the Bulge Dec. 1944
last German counter-offensive
Germany is now in retreat
-massive bombing raids
-Roosevelt wins 4th term with Harry Truman
-Soviet armies pushing into Germany from the east
The End is Near
-Battle of the Bulge Dec. 1944
last German counter-offensive
Germany is now in retreat
-massive bombing raids
-Roosevelt wins 4th term with Harry Truman
-Soviet armies pushing into Germany from the east
The End is Near
-Battle of the Bulge Dec. 1944
last German counter-offensive
Germany is now in retreat
-massive bombing raids
-Roosevelt wins 4th term with Harry Truman
-Soviet armies pushing into Germany from the east
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)
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)
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)
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)
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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