Chapter 17 Section 2
-
Upload
vaughan-england -
Category
Documents
-
view
24 -
download
2
description
Transcript of Chapter 17 Section 2
![Page 1: Chapter 17 Section 2](https://reader031.fdocuments.us/reader031/viewer/2022020801/5681365e550346895d9de9ca/html5/thumbnails/1.jpg)
Chapter 17 Section 2
The War for Europe and north Africa
![Page 2: Chapter 17 Section 2](https://reader031.fdocuments.us/reader031/viewer/2022020801/5681365e550346895d9de9ca/html5/thumbnails/2.jpg)
War Plans
• 12/22/41-Churchill arrives at White House
• Creating war plans w/ FDR
• Defeat of Germany made top priority
![Page 3: Chapter 17 Section 2](https://reader031.fdocuments.us/reader031/viewer/2022020801/5681365e550346895d9de9ca/html5/thumbnails/3.jpg)
Why Germany
• FDR considered Hitler #1 enemy of US
• Stalin desperate for help against invading Nazis
• Only w/ Germany out of the way could Britain and Soviet Union help the US against Japan
![Page 4: Chapter 17 Section 2](https://reader031.fdocuments.us/reader031/viewer/2022020801/5681365e550346895d9de9ca/html5/thumbnails/4.jpg)
War Plans
• 2nd decision-Allies would accept only unconditional surrender from Axis Powers
![Page 5: Chapter 17 Section 2](https://reader031.fdocuments.us/reader031/viewer/2022020801/5681365e550346895d9de9ca/html5/thumbnails/5.jpg)
Battle of the Atlantic
• Hitler ordered submarine raids against America east coast
• Germans sank 87 American ships in 1st 4 months of 1942
• 7 months in Nazis sunk 681 allied ships in Atlantic
![Page 6: Chapter 17 Section 2](https://reader031.fdocuments.us/reader031/viewer/2022020801/5681365e550346895d9de9ca/html5/thumbnails/6.jpg)
Battle of the Atlantic
• Allies responded w/ convoys
• Escorted with destroyers equipped w/ sonar
• Planes used radar to locate subs on the ocean’s surface
• By May 1943-germans lost more subs than they could produce
![Page 7: Chapter 17 Section 2](https://reader031.fdocuments.us/reader031/viewer/2022020801/5681365e550346895d9de9ca/html5/thumbnails/7.jpg)
Battle of the Atlantic
• 1939-1940 US built only 102 ships
• Early 1943- 140 Liberty ships being built each month
• Launching of ships now outnumbered ships being sunk
• Mid 1943- Nazis no longer had control of Atlantic
![Page 8: Chapter 17 Section 2](https://reader031.fdocuments.us/reader031/viewer/2022020801/5681365e550346895d9de9ca/html5/thumbnails/8.jpg)
Battle of Stalingrad
• German invasion of SU halted at Moscow
• Nazis had to head south to replenish oil supply
• Had 2 goals– Seize oil rich
Caucasus Mtns.– Capture Stalingrad
• Major industrial center on Volga River
![Page 9: Chapter 17 Section 2](https://reader031.fdocuments.us/reader031/viewer/2022020801/5681365e550346895d9de9ca/html5/thumbnails/9.jpg)
Battle of Stalingrad
• Nazis approach Stalingrad summer 1942
• Luftwaffe bombed city• Every wooden
building set ablaze• Stalin ordered city to
be defended at all costs
![Page 10: Chapter 17 Section 2](https://reader031.fdocuments.us/reader031/viewer/2022020801/5681365e550346895d9de9ca/html5/thumbnails/10.jpg)
Battle of Stalingrad
• Germans pressed on for 3 months
• Hand to hand combat• By Sept. Nazis controlled
9/10 of the city• November-Soviets
counterattack• German officers begged
Hitler to allow a retreat• Hitler refused
![Page 11: Chapter 17 Section 2](https://reader031.fdocuments.us/reader031/viewer/2022020801/5681365e550346895d9de9ca/html5/thumbnails/11.jpg)
Battle of Stalingrad
• Winter set in• 2/2/43 91,000
Germans surrendered• Soviets lost 1,250,000
people defending Stalingrad
• Turning point in war• Soviets now steadily
moving westward toward Germany
![Page 12: Chapter 17 Section 2](https://reader031.fdocuments.us/reader031/viewer/2022020801/5681365e550346895d9de9ca/html5/thumbnails/12.jpg)
North Africa
• Operation Torch-the invasion of Axis controlled North Africa
• Commanded by general Dwight D. Eisenhower
![Page 13: Chapter 17 Section 2](https://reader031.fdocuments.us/reader031/viewer/2022020801/5681365e550346895d9de9ca/html5/thumbnails/13.jpg)
North Africa
• Nov. 1942- 107,000 Allied troops land in Casablanca, Oran, and Algiers
• Move eastward chasing the Nazi Afrika Korps led by general Erwin Rommel
• Afrika Korps surrender in may 1943
![Page 14: Chapter 17 Section 2](https://reader031.fdocuments.us/reader031/viewer/2022020801/5681365e550346895d9de9ca/html5/thumbnails/14.jpg)
The Italian Campaign
• Sicily captured in summer of 1943
• Italians war weary• 7/25/43- Italian King
stripped Mussolini of power
• Mussolini arrested• Hitler seized control
of Italy-reinstates Mussolini
![Page 15: Chapter 17 Section 2](https://reader031.fdocuments.us/reader031/viewer/2022020801/5681365e550346895d9de9ca/html5/thumbnails/15.jpg)
The Italian Campaign
• 18 months of fighting followed
• 4/28/45 Italians helping the allies ambush Nazi convoy
• Found Mussolini disguised as a German soldier
• Killed him• Hung up his body in a
Milan square
![Page 16: Chapter 17 Section 2](https://reader031.fdocuments.us/reader031/viewer/2022020801/5681365e550346895d9de9ca/html5/thumbnails/16.jpg)
![Page 17: Chapter 17 Section 2](https://reader031.fdocuments.us/reader031/viewer/2022020801/5681365e550346895d9de9ca/html5/thumbnails/17.jpg)
![Page 18: Chapter 17 Section 2](https://reader031.fdocuments.us/reader031/viewer/2022020801/5681365e550346895d9de9ca/html5/thumbnails/18.jpg)
![Page 19: Chapter 17 Section 2](https://reader031.fdocuments.us/reader031/viewer/2022020801/5681365e550346895d9de9ca/html5/thumbnails/19.jpg)
![Page 20: Chapter 17 Section 2](https://reader031.fdocuments.us/reader031/viewer/2022020801/5681365e550346895d9de9ca/html5/thumbnails/20.jpg)
![Page 21: Chapter 17 Section 2](https://reader031.fdocuments.us/reader031/viewer/2022020801/5681365e550346895d9de9ca/html5/thumbnails/21.jpg)
D-Day
• US & Britain built invasion force for 2 years
• Ships, landing crafts, 3 million soldiers
• Invasion would target Normandy, France
• Allies begin by bombing supply routes
![Page 22: Chapter 17 Section 2](https://reader031.fdocuments.us/reader031/viewer/2022020801/5681365e550346895d9de9ca/html5/thumbnails/22.jpg)
D-Day
• D-Day- day of the invasion of Hitler’s Europe-June 6, 1944
• British, American and Canadian troops attack 5 points along 60 miles of beach
![Page 23: Chapter 17 Section 2](https://reader031.fdocuments.us/reader031/viewer/2022020801/5681365e550346895d9de9ca/html5/thumbnails/23.jpg)
D-Day
• 156,000 troops• 4,000 landing craft• 600 war ships• 11,000 planes• Largest land/sea/air
operation in history• German retaliation
was brutal
![Page 24: Chapter 17 Section 2](https://reader031.fdocuments.us/reader031/viewer/2022020801/5681365e550346895d9de9ca/html5/thumbnails/24.jpg)
![Page 25: Chapter 17 Section 2](https://reader031.fdocuments.us/reader031/viewer/2022020801/5681365e550346895d9de9ca/html5/thumbnails/25.jpg)
![Page 26: Chapter 17 Section 2](https://reader031.fdocuments.us/reader031/viewer/2022020801/5681365e550346895d9de9ca/html5/thumbnails/26.jpg)
D-Day
• Allies hold beach• Within 1 month-
landed 1 million soldiers, 567,000 tons of supplies, 170,000 vehicles
![Page 27: Chapter 17 Section 2](https://reader031.fdocuments.us/reader031/viewer/2022020801/5681365e550346895d9de9ca/html5/thumbnails/27.jpg)
D-Day
• August 25-Allied forces, many under the direction of General George Patton liberate Paris
![Page 28: Chapter 17 Section 2](https://reader031.fdocuments.us/reader031/viewer/2022020801/5681365e550346895d9de9ca/html5/thumbnails/28.jpg)
FDR win again
• By September 1944-Allies had liberated France, Belgium, Luxembourg, and much of the Netherlands
• Also in 1944-Americans re-elect FDR to 4th term– New VP Harry S.
Truman
![Page 29: Chapter 17 Section 2](https://reader031.fdocuments.us/reader031/viewer/2022020801/5681365e550346895d9de9ca/html5/thumbnails/29.jpg)
Battle of the Bulge
• October 44-Americans capture 1st German town
• Hitler counterattacks• 12/16/44 Germans
break through American lines
• Resulted in a massive dent in the Allied lines
![Page 30: Chapter 17 Section 2](https://reader031.fdocuments.us/reader031/viewer/2022020801/5681365e550346895d9de9ca/html5/thumbnails/30.jpg)
Battle of the Bulge
• Battle raged on for a month
• Germans pushed back
• Germans lost 120,000 troops, 600 tanks, 1,600 planes-men and weapons they could not replace
![Page 31: Chapter 17 Section 2](https://reader031.fdocuments.us/reader031/viewer/2022020801/5681365e550346895d9de9ca/html5/thumbnails/31.jpg)
Liberation of Death Camps
• Allied troops moving east
• Soviet troops moving west
• Soviets 1st to encounter a death camp-Poland
• Nazis working hard to destroy evidence
![Page 32: Chapter 17 Section 2](https://reader031.fdocuments.us/reader031/viewer/2022020801/5681365e550346895d9de9ca/html5/thumbnails/32.jpg)
Unconditional Surrender
• 4/25/45- Soviets storm Berlin
• Hitler hiding in bunker• Marries Eva Braun on
4/29• Writes his last message
to German people-Blames Jews for starting war and his generals for losing it
![Page 33: Chapter 17 Section 2](https://reader031.fdocuments.us/reader031/viewer/2022020801/5681365e550346895d9de9ca/html5/thumbnails/33.jpg)
Unconditional Surrender
• 4/30/45- Hitler commits suicide
• Had his body burned• May 8, 1945 Victory
in Europe (V-E) Day– 1st part of war over
![Page 34: Chapter 17 Section 2](https://reader031.fdocuments.us/reader031/viewer/2022020801/5681365e550346895d9de9ca/html5/thumbnails/34.jpg)
![Page 35: Chapter 17 Section 2](https://reader031.fdocuments.us/reader031/viewer/2022020801/5681365e550346895d9de9ca/html5/thumbnails/35.jpg)