• 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
• 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
