USH2 Unit 5: America and the World
Lesson 5.3 part 7
Focus / Review Turning Points against the Japanese: - - -
Turning Points against the Germans: - - -
EQ What are the turning points in our war against
Germany.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMAxyOZez1YOperation Overlord
PUSHING BACK THE AXIS AFTER BRITISH AND
AMERICAN TROOPS WON VICTORIES OVER THE AXIS IN NORTH AFRICA, ALLIED LEADERS MADE PLANS FOR AN INVASION OF EUROPE.
STRIKING GERMANY AND ITALY IN JANUARY 1943, FDR
AND CHURCHILL MET AT THE CASABLANCA CONFERENCE IN MOROCCO
THE TWO LEADERS AGREED TO BEGIN A MASSIVE BOMBING CAMPAIGN OF GERMANY
ALSO AGREED TO ATTACK THE AXIS FORCES IN SICILY
STRATEGIC BOMBING BETWEEN 1943 AND
1945, THE ALLIES DROPPED 53,000 TONS OF EXPLOSIVES ON GERMANY EVERY MONTH
THE BOMBING CREATED AN OIL SHORTAGE AND DESTROYED THE RAIL SYSTEM AND FACTORIES
GERMAN AIRFORCE COULD NOT REPLACE PLANES LOST = ALLIES GAINED TOTAL CONTROL OF SKIES
STRIKING THE “SOFT UNDERBELLY” GENERAL EISENHOWER
WAS IN CHARGE OF THE SICILY INVASION.
ITALY’S KING HAD MUSSOLINI ARRESTED, BUT GERMAN TROOPS TOOK NORTHERN ITALY =
PUT MUSSOLINI BACK IN POWER
MUSSOLINI WOULD EVENTUALLY BE KILLED BY HIS OWN PEOPLE.
ITALIANS SURRENDER, GERMANY DOES NOT
AP Casablanca Conference 1. 2.
THE TEHRAN CONFERENCE FDR AND CHURCHILL MET
WITH STALIN IN LATE 1943. THEY REACHED SEVERAL AGREEMENTS:
GERMANY WOULD BE DIVIDED AFTER WAR
STALIN AGREED TO ATTACK GERMANY FROM EAST ONCE ALLIES LAND IN FRANCE
STALIN ALSO PROMISED TO HELP DEFEAT JAPAN AFTER GERMANY SURRENDERS
AP Tehran Conference 1 2 3
LANDING IN FRANCE INVASION OF FRANCE
KNOWN AS “OPERATION OVERLORD”
FDR SELECTED GENERAL EISENHOWER TO COMMAND THE INVASION
HITLER FORTIFIED COAST OF FRANCE IN ANTICIPATION
THE GERMANS WERE CONVINCED ALLIES WOULD LAND IN PAS-DE-CALAIS
TO FUEL THIS MISCONCEPTION, THE ALLIES PLACED A “DUMMY INVASION FORCE” NEAR THIS SECTOR
LANDING IN FRANCE - CONTINUED THEY ACTUALLY PLANNED TO LAND ON 5 BEACHES IN
NORMANDY KNOWN AS “UTAH, OMAHA, GOLD, SWORD, AND JUNO”
D-DAY BY THE SPRING OF
1944, THE ALLIES WERE READY FOR THE INVASION
INVASION BEGAN JUNE 6, 1944 = D-DAY
GERMAN RESISTANCE AT OMAHA BEACH WAS INTENSE
AP Note to Buddy
Band of Brothers Day of Days
Learning Log WHAT DID FDR AND CHURCHILL AGREE
TO AT CASABLANCA? WHAT WAS THE RESULT OF MASSIVE
BOMBING CAMPAIGN OVER GERMANY? WHAT WAS THE RESULT OF THE
ITALIAN CAMPAIGN? WHAT AGREEMENTS WERE MADE
BETWEEN CHURCHILL, FDR, AND STALIN AT TEHRAN?
WHO DID FDR CHOOSE TO COMMAND OPERATION OVERLORD?
WHERE DID THE GERMANS BELIEVE THE ALLIES WOULD MOST LIKELY LAND IN REGARD TO THE INVASION OF EUROPE?
WHERE DID THE ALLIES LAND? WHICH BEACH SUFFERED THE MOST
CASUALTIES? WHY WAS D-DAY SUCCESS SO VITAL
TO ALLIED VICTORY?