Chronicle the advancements of the Allied Powers until they win WW2 in 1945.

• Chronicle the advancements of the Allied Powers until they win WW2 in 1945

• Axis 3 at their peak

• Allies will now have a series of victories to collapse the Axis Powers

• Two wise men, Churchill and FDR will let their Generals work

• Stalin becomes wise and lets his Generals work

b. What happens?– Rommel

pushed into Tunisia

– Who comes from Morocco?• IKE!!

• Next step is to take Italy

• Who is overthrown?– Mussolini

• Then put back in power (?)

• Germans defend Italy fiercely but lose

• Hitler forced to use his forces to clean up Mussolini’s mess

• Taking Leningrad and Moscow fails

a. New goal = oil fields of Caucasus Mountains in Southern USSR– Hitler’s

Mistake?

• Hitler did not have to take it…

• Biggest turning point of WW2!!

• Summer-Winter of 1942

• USSR wins at a price– by the end of

WW2, 11 million military deaths

• Germans suffer 300K casualties

• Russians had better guns and uniforms…

• Home Field Adv

The Russian Sacrifice

• Germany can’t recover from Stalingrad

• USSR begins…– Counter-

offensive– Hitler loses

just like Napoleon

– By 1944, USSR driving through Poland

• Early 1942, while Stalin is getting bashed by Barbarossa, Churchill at White House and planned WWII

• The 3 are now Allies but there is little trust

• Why did Stalin not trust FDR and WC?– Not as much Lend

Lease to him– Felt FDR and WC

wanted to destroy him and Communism too…was he right?

• Why did FDR and WC not trust Stalin?– They thought Stalin

would want to dominate Europe after the war! (?)

• 2nd Front• Asked for

it for over a year and kept getting nothing from FDR

• Stalin was mad that he took the pounding

a. What did Stalin Want?

• FDR cared about avoiding too many deaths that would shake the USA’s resolve– USA lost 400K– USSR lost 11 million

• This will be part of the straining of USA and USSR’s relationship for the Cold War

• 4th major Turning Point

• June 6, 1944

• D-Day• Beaches

of Normandy

• Paris later liberated

• Rommel misses the battle

Stalin gets his 2nd Front

• Dec-Jan 1944/45• Germany’s Last Stand• Worst battle in Europe

for USA (Year 1 & Archie)

• Casualties– USA = 80K– Germany = 120K

• Cut into what country?

• Do what to the American spirits?–And then what? –Germany would

AVOID signing UNCONDITIONAL surrender

• Bulge holds and Allies push back

• Germany loses best army

• Germany is open door in West

• Two major turning points– Midway– Coral Sea

• Next up– Island

Hopping• USA now has

– Philippine Islands

– Okinawa– Iwo Jima