THE WAR IN NORTH AFRICA AND EUROPE

SECTION 3

A DESPERATE SITUATION

A DESPERATE SITUATION

BY LATE 1941, THE AXIS POWERS PUSHED THE ALLIES NEARLY TO THE BREAKING POINT

AXIS POWERS OCCUPIED GREECE & YUGOSLAVIA

AXIS POWERS WERE ADVANCING IN NORTH AFRICA

FDR AND CHURCHILL MET IN WASHINGTON DC AND DECIDED TO WAIT ON AN INVASION AGAINST JAPAN

A DESPERATE SITUATION

IN JANUARY OF 1942 CHINA AND THE USSR AGREED TO HELP DEFEAT THE AXIS POWERS AND TO NOT MAKE A SEPARATE PEACE AGREEMENT

SONAR WAS CREATED BY THE ALLIES TO HELP PROTECT SHIPS

NEWER LONG-RANGE BOMBERS HELPED PROTECT OUR SHIPS AS WELL

ALLIES STARTED MAKING BOMBING RUNS INTO GERMANY AND TRYING TO KNOCK OUT FACTORIES, MILITARY TARGETS, AND RAILROADS

NORTH AFRICA AND ITALY

SEPT OF 1940, ITALIAN FORCES ATTACKED EGYPT FROM LIBYA AFTER THE SUEZ CANAL BRITISH RESISTED

ERWIN ROMMEL LEADER OF GERMAN’S TANK CORPS IN AFRICA AKA THE DESERT FOX

BERNARD MONTGOMERY LEADER OF BRITAIN’S TANK

CORPS IN AFRICA

NORTH AFRICA AND ITALY

BATTLE OF EL ALAMEIN WHERE MONTGOMERY STOPPED

ROMMEL’S ADVANCEMENT DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

LEADER OF THE US TANK CORPS MASTER STRATEGIST ABLE TO EVENTUALLY DEFEAT ROMMEL IN

1943 AND HE THEN ESCAPED TO EUROPE

NORTH AFRICA AND ITALY

RESULTED IN ITALY AS THE NEXT DESTINATION FOR THE ALLIES

CHURCHILL CALLED ITALY “SOFT UNDERBELLY OF EUROPE”

JULY OF 1943 ALLIES TROOPS LANDED IN SICILY BY SEPT THE ALLIES LANDED ON THE MAINLAND AS THE ALLIES ADVANCED, MUSSOLINI WAS IN

SERIOUS TROUBLE AND HITLER CAME TO SAVE HIM WITH 1000s OF GERMAN SOLDIERS

NORTH AFRICA AND ITALY

FIGHTING THEN RAGED ON FOR MONTHS WITH GERMANY’S HELP

BY JUNE 1944, ROME WAS FINALLY CAPTURED

APRIL 1945, MUSSOLINI WAS CAPTURED AND KILLED BY ITALIAN RESISTANT FIGHTERS

BY MAY 1945, THE GERMANS WERE PUSHED OUT OF ITALY

TURNING POINTS

EARLY 1943 THE ALLIES HAD BEGUN THEIR FINAL PUSH TO DEFEAT THE AXIS POWERS

BATTLE OF STALINGRAD BLOCK BY BLOCK BATTLE IN THE CITY GERMANS SURRENDERED IN JANUARY OF

1943 OVER 200,000 GERMANS DIED DURING

THIS BATTLE

TURNING POINTS

KURSK HUGE TANK BATTLE IN THE SOVIET UNION GERMANY VS. USSR GERMANS LOST

GEORGE C. MARSHALL FDR’S TOP MILITARY ADVISOR PUT GENERAL EISENHOWER IN CHARGE OF

AN ALLIED INVASION OF FRANCE

TURNING POINTS

D-DAY ALLIED INVASION OF GERMAN OCCUPIED

FRANCE STARTED ON JUNE 6, 1944 WAS THE LARGEST SEA AND LAND

INVASION IN HISTORY LANDED IN NORMANDY, FRANCE BY THE END OF THE FIRST DAY, OVER

155,000 ALLED SOLDIERS WERE IN FRANCE

TURNING POINTS

OMAR BRADLEY GENERAL IN CHARGE OF TAKING THE

BEACHES AND PUSHING INLAND GEORGE S. PATTON

TANK COMMANDER FOR THE US THAT BROKE THROUGH THE GERMAN LINES IN JULY

TURNING POINTS

ALLIED SOLDIERS WERE NOW ALSO PUSHING NORTHWARD FROM ITALY THROUGH SOUTHERN FRANCE

FRANCE WOULD NOW SOON BE FREE AGAIN

BY AUGUST OF 1944, PARIS WAS ONCE AGAIN FREE

THE BATTLE OF THE BULGE

DECEMBER OF 1944, HITLER’S LAST OFFENSIVE OF THE WAR TOOK PLACE

DESPARATE ATTEMPT TO STOP THE ALLIES

WAS IN THE ARDENNE FOREST ATTACKED THE US FORCES IN THIS

AREA US SUFFERED OVER 77,000

CASUALTIES WE EVENTUALLY WON THE BATTLE AND

PUSHED THE GERMANS BACK