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The Global Conflict: Allied Successes

The Global Conflict: Allied Successes. How did the Axis powers treat the people they conquered? How did nations mobilize for total war? What battles were turning points in the war?. Targets of WWII. Most costly conflict-human lives Civilians as targets 1939- 1942 Axis success

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The Global Conflict: Allied Successes

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  1. The Global Conflict: Allied Successes • How did the Axis powers treat the people they conquered? • How did nations mobilize for total war? • What battles were turning points in the war?

  2. Targets of WWII • Most costly conflict-human lives • Civilians as targets • 1939- 1942 Axis success • Slowly the tide began to turn

  3. Nazi Europe • Hitler’s racial obsessions • Nazis loot and plunder. • Slave labor • Shot hostages and tortured prisoners

  4. Nazi Genocide • Genocide-deliberate destruction of Jews • “Final solution” • Death camps • Auschwitz • Bergen Belsen

  5. Life in the Death Camps • Jews were stripped of clothes and valuables • Heads were shaved • Separated families • Young, old, and sick were killed • Shower rooms- gassed • Medical experiments • Six million Jews died- Holocaust

  6. Jewish Resistance • Auschwitz- destroyed one gas chamber • Rebels were killed • Rosa Robota was tortured and hanged

  7. Aiding the Jews • Friends and neighbors hid the Jews • Italian peasants helped • Denmark saved Jews • Collaborators- helped Nazis hunt down Jews

  8. The Allied War Effort • Big Three-Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin • Churchill- “Stalin to dominate Europe” • FDR- “Churchill expand imperial power” • Stalin- “Democracies to destroy Communism” • Stalin wants 2nd front

  9. US Reactions at Home • Used propaganda • Japanese Americans forced into internment camps. Why? • Security risks • 40 years later, US apologizes

  10. Women’s War Effort • Built ships • Produced ammunition • Drove trucks and ambulances • Decoded messages • Lily Litvak- Soviet pilot, shot down 12 planes

  11. El Alamein: North Africa • British General Montgomery pushes back the Desert Fox • US General Eisenhower forces Rommel to surrender

  12. Invasion of Italy • US and Britain defeat Italy • Mussolini overthrown • Forced Hitler to defend another front

  13. Invasion of France • June 6, 1944- D-Day • 176,000 Allied troops crossed English Channel- Normandy • Operation Overlord • 5,000 ships 500,000 men • Utah and Omaha Beach-US • Gold Juno, and Sword- British • Success

  14. Liberation of France • Free French Forces led resistance • German retreat • August 25- Allies enter Paris • Within a month, all France was free

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