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D-Day to VE Day

D-Day to VE Day. US History PHS 2013. HW#3. Due Next Friday Page 577 Questions #2,3,4. D-Day. June 6, 1944 Code name for allied invasion of occupied Europe. Allies land troops in Normandy France “ Second front ” is finally opened in Europe

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D-Day to VE Day

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  1. D-Day to VE Day US History PHS 2013

  2. HW#3 • Due Next Friday • Page 577 • Questions #2,3,4

  3. D-Day • June 6, 1944 • Code name for allied invasion of occupied Europe. • Allies land troops in Normandy France • “Second front” is finally opened in Europe • 3 million British, American and Canadian troops take part

  4. D-Day Strategy • Leak information that the target was Calais- 150 miles away. • Land behind enemy lines • Push for Paris

  5. Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno and Sword Beaches

  6. 130,000 men land on the beaches at Normandy. • After 7 days, the Allies held 80 miles of beach. • Within a month, over 1 million troops had landed. • Eisenhauer D-Day Speech

  7. General George Patton • U.S. 4 Star Army General • Led U.S. Third Army Tank Corps • First U.S. unit to reach and liberate Paris • patton speech

  8. Liberation of Paris • 2 1/2 months after the invasion, Allied armies are approaching Paris.

  9. HW#3 • Due Friday • Page 577 • Questions #2,3,4

  10. Sept. 1944. Liberation of France helped FDR win Fourth term as President

  11. Roosevelt’s 4th election

  12. Battle of the Bulge • December 1944 • Last German offensive of the war. • Caught the American army by surprise. • Attempted to split Allied forces but fails.

  13. German tanks push 60 miles into allied territory. • Battle lasts one month. • Germans lose 120,000 troops, 600 tanks and big guns and 1,600 planes. • Battle of the Bulge

  14. April 1945 • FDR suffers a stroke and dies. • Harry S. Truman becomes 33rd President. • April 25, 1945, Soviet troops reach Berlin.

  15. VE Day • April 29, Adolf Hitler commits suicide. • May 8, 1945, General Dwight Eisenhower accepts Germany’s unconditional surrender. • VICTORY EUROPE!

  16. Holocaust • Begins during WWII • The planned extermination of Jews that were not useful to Nazis • 6 million Jews will die in Nazi concentration camps. • Camps are liberated in the last months of war. • US forces knew about camps, but main goal was defeat of Germany so no planned action was taken to free captives during war. • Holocaust in color

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