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US in the European Theater

Pearl Harbor

· ______________________________________________

· “A date that shall live in ____________________________”

· Empire of Japan Attacked the US Navy trying _______________________________________________

· In little more than _________________________ Japanese military destroyed or damaged

· ____ American war ships

· Damaged or destroyed __________military aircraft

· ____________ Americans died and ______________ wounded

· ___________________our Pacific Fleet

United States and the European Theater - WWII Heroes and Horrors

The Big 3

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· FDR

· United States

· Winston Churchill

· Great Britain

· Josef Stalin

· Soviet Union

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· Alliance between two ___________________________ and one __________________________ leader

· Uneasy alliance

· Meet several times

· ________________and __________________ become friends

· Unconditional surrender

Allied Forces

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· United States of America

· Britain

· Australia

· France

· USSR/ Russia/ Soviet Union

· Plus several others

· Total __________ Nations

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Plan of Attack

· ________________________________________________________________________

· Military Plan

· _________________________________ on Germany and Italy

· _________________________ on Germany

· Peripheral strikes in the _________________________

· Direct ____________________ on ____________________________

Stalingrad

· Might be the _______________________________________________________

· ______________________________ for the Germans on land

· Destroys the German ___________________________

· Germany is in retreat from the east until the reach Berlin

· Stalin is angered because Allies did not help and the Russian took the brunt of this attack

· Lasts __________________________________________________________

Operation Torch

· ___________________________________________________________________

· Brits had been there since _________________

· _____________________________ leader

· Turning point of the war

· First Front

Operation Overlord

· ___________________________________________

· ________________________ stormed _____ beachheads at Normandy coast

· 800,000 more men within 3 weeks; 3 million

· Causalities: 2,245 Allies killed 1,670 wounded

· Significance

· Established a strong _____________________ ( Russia VERY happy)

· August 1st 1944 Allies enter into Paris

· End of the summer

· _______________________________________________

Battle of the Bulge

· _________________________________

· Germans last _________________________

· Move against US positions

· _________________________________

· 101st Airborne Div.

· ____________________________ US Troops killed

· Stopped Hitler’s Last gasp counter offensive

Victory over Europe

· January advancing toward Germany

· Attack ______________________ with fire bombs killing __________________________ and destroying factories and rail lines

· April 1945

· US approached Berlin form the west while Soviets come from the East

· Italian resistance collapsing

· Mussolini caught by Italian resistance and killed

· Hitler goes into a _______________________________________

· Germany surrenders _______________________________________________

Movies On (Europe) WWII

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· Band Of Brothers

· Saving Private Ryan

· Fury

· We were soldiers

· The Monuments Men

· King’s Speech

· Valkyrie

· The Pianist

· Red Tails

· Saints and Soldiers

· The Imitation Game

· Enemy at the Gates

· The Great Escape