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Quaestio: Does the USA or the USSR deserve more credit for the Allied victory in Europe?

Quaestio: Does the USA or the USSR deserve more credit for the Allied victory in Europe?. Nunc Agenda: Discuss with your partners the Stalingrad Primary source: What did you feel when reading this? What did you picture?

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Quaestio: Does the USA or the USSR deserve more credit for the Allied victory in Europe?

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  1. Quaestio: Does the USA or the USSR deserve more credit for the Allied victory in Europe? Nunc Agenda: Discuss with your partners the Stalingrad Primary source: What did you feel when reading this? What did you picture? Did this text make you feel that the USSR should receive more credit for victory in Europe?

  2. America Inches Toward War • 1939: USA began selling war supplies to Britain “cash and carry” program • 1940: In response to Japan’s continued expansion in Asia and the Pacific, USA freezes Japanese assets (they can’t access their money/property in the USA) and cut them off from OIL (embargo) • 1941: Lend-Lease program providing Britain, USSR, China with US warships in exchange for use of their naval bases • Dec 7 1941: Japan attacks Pearl Harbor naval base in Hawaii to destroy ships and planes • Dec 11 1941: Italy and Germany declare war on USA • America officially declares war on Axis

  3. Opening a Second Front • 1943: Germans already struggling in fight against Russia with failure at Stalingrad, Moscow secure • 1943: British get Blitz payback with the RAF bombing German-held industrial cities • 1944: Soviets now pushing back against Axis, conquering across Eastern Europe and taking territory from the Nazis • June 6 1944: Allied “D-Day” beach invasion of Normandy, France • Developed technology to transport tanks over water • extremely deadly, but allies pushed through into Nazi held France

  4. Allied Victory in Europe • 1944: Battle of the Bulge- Hitler’s last big counterattack in Belgium failed to defeat Allied advance • Being attacked from both East and West strained German military strength • 1945: British firebombing of Dresden, Germany killed 135,000 men, women, and children • May 8 1945: Germany surrendered • Hitler committed suicide days before

  5. Who deserves credit for Victory? • Read the assigned text with your group and discuss whether the USSR or the USA deserves the most credit for the Victory in Europe • As a class, debate which side you support and why, using examples from the text. • Write a brief response to the Quaestio summarizing your thoughts, which should be typed up in the Google form online

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