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Section 3: Victory in Europe and the Pacific

Section 3: Victory in Europe and the Pacific. Allies Turn the Tide. Nazis invaded Soviet Union but did not conquer it Pushed the Axis powers out of North Africa Allies invaded Italy, difficult battles Bombed Germany from bases in England

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Section 3: Victory in Europe and the Pacific

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  1. Section 3: Victory in Europe and the Pacific

  2. Allies Turn the Tide • Nazis invaded Soviet Union but did not conquer it • Pushed the Axis powers out of North Africa • Allies invaded Italy, difficult battles • Bombed Germany from bases in England • Battle of Midway won by Allies (ended the Japanese advance)

  3. Germany Invades the Soviet Union • An Unstoppable German Army Stalls • June 1941, Hitler invades the Soviet Union • Operation Barbarossa • Frederick Barbarossa, medieval Germanic leader • Why break the Nazi-Soviet Pact? • Ural Mountains = raw materials • Siberia = forests • Ukraine = wheat fields • Crush communism in Europe

  4. Operation Barbarossa • Germans caught Stalin unprepared • Slash-and-burn retreat strategy • Fall 1941 Nazis deep in Soviet territory • German soldiers froze to death

  5. Allies Turn the Tide

  6. The Global Conflict: Allied Successes • Nations mobilize for total war • Democratic political power increases • Economic resources directed to war effort • Consumer good rationed • Prices and wages regulated • War puts an end to unemployment • Democratic governments limit citizen rights • Censored the press • Use of propaganda • Japanese containment camps – US West Coast

  7. Allied Victory in North Africa • Turning points in the war in North Africa • El Alamein • 1942 Egypt • British General Bernard Montgomery vs. German General Rommel “Desert Fox” • Axis powers driven back across Libya into Tunisia • American General Dwight Eisenhower • Morocco and Algeria • Traps Rommel’s army; surrendered in May 1943

  8. Invasion of Normandy • Operation Overlord: headed by Dwight Eisenhower • Largest fleet ever assembled (4,400 ships) • Deceived Germans: fake army set up near Calais • D-Day: June 6, 1944 • 11,000 planes led the way • Soldiers stormed the beaches • Gained a foothold in France, 1st step to defeating Germany

  9. Liberation of Europe • Allies Advance • August 1944: Allies liberated Paris • Hitler refused to surrender to Allied forces • Battle of the Bulge (Hitler’s last offensive December 1944) • Germany captured several key towns • Reinforcements pushed Germans out of France • Early 1945: Soviets and U.S. outside Berlin • April 1945: Mussolini captured and executed • April 30, 1945: Hitler commits suicide • May 7, 1945: Germany surrenders

  10. Atomic Bomb Ends the War • Manhattan Project • July 16, 1945: 1st Atomic Bomb was tested • Developed by scientists (many refugees) • Truman’s Decision • Invasion might cost: 1,000,000 U.S. lives • Mattered more than Japanese civilian lives • Hiroshima (8/6/1945) Nagasaki (8/9/1945) • 95,000 civilians were killed • Japan surrendered on August 15, 1945 (VJ Day)

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