32.4 THE ALLIED VICTORY

WORLD HISTORYPETERSON SCHOOLMR.HOOD

MAIN IDEAEMPIRE BUILDING.

LED BY THE UNITED STATES, GREATBRITAIN, AND THE SOVIET UNION,

THE ALLIES SCORED KEY VICTORIES AND WON THE WAR.

WHY IT MATTERS NOWTHE ALLIES` VICTORY IN WORLD WAR II SET UP CONDITIONS FOR BOTH THE

COLD WAR AND TODAY`S POST-COLD WAR WORLD.

INTRODUCTION

GERMANY DECLARED WAR ON RUSSIAJAPAN DECLARED WAR ON USA

CHURCHILL (GB) + ROOSEVELT (USA) MET TO DISCUSS JOINT WAR

POLICY

STALIN ASKED FOR HELP FROM ALLIED

FORCES

THE PLAN WAS TO WEAKEN GERMANY ON

TWO FRONTS

BEFORE DEALING A DEATHBLOW TO ADOLF HITLER`S GERMANY

OBJECTIVE 1DESCRIBE THE

ALLIED STRATEGY IN EUROPE

BRITAIN + USA STRUCK FIRST IN

NORTH AFRICA + SOUTHERN EUROPE

STRATEGY ANGERED STALIN RUSSIA FACED GERMANY ALONE

BATTLE OF LENINGRAD 1941-1942: SOVIETS STALLED GERMAN

FORCES

BATTLE OF STALINGRAD 1942-1943: SOVIETS DEFEATED

GERMAN FORCES

BRITISH + US TROOPS CRUSHED GERMANY IN NORTH

AFRICA 1943

STALIN AGAIN URGED BRITAIN + USA TO INVADE

FRANCE

INSTEAD BRITAIN + USA INVADED SOUTHERN

ITALY 1943

ITALY SURRENDERED MUSSOLINI TOPPLED FROM

POWER

GERMANY TOOK CONTROL OF NORTH

ITALY, PUT MUSSOLINI BACK IN CHARGE

GERMANY FOUGHT FOR ITALY UNTIL THE

VERY END

MUSSOLINI LATER SHOT

+ HUNG BODY FOR ALL TO SEE

OBJECTIVE 2LIST EFFORTS MADE

ON THE HOME FRONT

PEOPLE ON THE HOME FRONT RALLIED TO SUPPORT THE

ALLIED FORCES

U.S PRODUCED WEAPONS + EQUIPMENT NEEDED TO WIN

WAR

ALLIED GOVERNMENTS USED PROPAGANDA CAMPAIGNS

OBJECTIVE 3SUMMARIZE EVENTS

THAT LED TO THE SURRENDER

OF GERMANYAND OF JAPAN

BY 1943 ALLIED FORCES PLANNED ATTACK OF MAINLAND EUROPE

D-DAY INVASION JUNE 06 1944

OR “OPERATION OVERLORD”

LARGEST LAND + SEA INVASION ATTACK IN

HISTORY

BRITISH, AMERICAN, FRENCH

+ CANADIAN TROOPS

BY SEPTEMBER ALLIES HAD LIBERATED FRANCE, BELGIUM, +

LUXEMBOURG

ALLIES NOW SET THEIR SIGHTS ON

GERMANY

HITLER NOW FACED WAR ON TWO FRONTS

WEST: ALLIES, EAST: SOVIETS

BATTLE OF THE BULGE 1944-1945

LAST GERMAN OFFENSIVE

ALLIED FORCES +

SOVIETS CAPTURED BERLIN

HITLER COMMITTED SUICIDE

SOON AFTER, GERMANY`S

UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER

V.E. DAY MAY 1945: VICTORY IN

EUROPE

BUT WAR IN PACIFIC CONTINUED

ALLIED FORCES V JAPAN

USA TOOK IWO JIMA + OKINAWA

USA NOW WANTED JAPAN

BUT TAKING JAPAN COULD RISK 500,000 U.S.

LIVES

MEANWHILE, AMERICA HAD PLANNED TOP-SECRET MANHATTAN PROJECT

LED BY GENERAL LESLIE GROVES

+ J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER

MANHATTAN PROJECT DEVELOPED THE ATOMIC BOMB

USA WARNED JAPAN TO SURRENDER OR

EXPECT “RAIN OF RUIN FROM THE AIR”

BUT THE JAPANESE

DID NOT SURRENDER

US DROPPED ATOMIC BOMB ON HIROSHIMA AUGUST 6

1945

70,000-80,000 JAPANESE DIED

THE JAPANESE DID NOT SURRENDER

US DROPPED ATOMIC BOMB ON NAGASAKI AUGUST 9 1945

70,000 MORE JAPANESE DIED

RADIATION FALLOUT KILLED MANY MORE

JAPANESE

FINALLY JAPAN SURRENDERED

SEPTEMBER 1945 THE WAR HAD ENDED

NOW, COUNTRIES FACED THE TASK OF REBUILDING A WAR-TORN

WORLD