War… a long drawn out War

1. War… a long drawn out War Fall of the Third Reich… and victory in Europe

2. Do Now Germany controlled much of the war until 1944 with their advanced weapons, strong defenses, and control in Europe. What will the Allies need to do in order to beat Germany and win the war?

3. Information • World War II Project Presentations - grades in the computer • End of the Marking Period: April 3, 2014 - grade finalization nearly complete

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5. Do Now Germany controlled much of the war until 1944 with their advanced weapons, strong defenses, and control in Europe. What will the Allies need to do in order to beat Germany and win the war?

6. Mobilization for War • Needed to support the Allies - Britain, France, Europe • Needed to change to war production economy - tanks, guns, bullets, ships, and airplanes • Needed to prepare the military for war - soldiers to fight • Needed to prepare the citizens for war - rationing of goods, reduce unemployment

7. The European/North Africa Theater

8. Operation Overlord • 1943 - U.S. proposes a plan - Britain accepts and prepares • The Plan - launch an attack from Britain - retake France, push to Germany

10. German Fortifications

12. The Germans knew an invasion was coming, but they did not know where or when. The Allies took great pains to keep this information secret. • Shortly after midnight on June 6, 1944, the Allies sent 156,000 troops, 4,000 landing craft, 600 warships and 11,000 planes to fight for a 60-mile stretch of the coast of Normandy. It was the largest land-sea operation in history.

13. D-Day Invasion

15. Despite the advice of his generals to launch a quick counterattack, Hitler hesitated. Thanks to a complex Allied deception, he feared a second, larger invasion at the narrowest part of the English Channel near Calais. • The fiercest resistance the Allies faced was at Omaha Beach, the code name for one landing site. The Allies suffered some 2,000 casualties.

17. In spite of the heavy casualties of D-Day, within a week a half million men had come ashore. By late July, the Allied force in France numbered some 2 million troops. • Liberating France • In early August, General George Patton used a blitzkrieg to open a hole in the German lines and burst out of Normandy.

18. The Battle of the Bulge • The Allied attack on the Netherlands faltered at the Rhine River. Meanwhile, Hitler reinforced the army with thousands of additional draftees, some as young as 15. • In mid-December 1944, Germany launched a counter-attack in Belgium and Luxembourg. The German attack smashed into the U.S. First Army and pushed it back, forming a bulge in the Allied line. The resulting clash came to be known as the Battle of the Bulge.

19. Battle of the Bulge

20. General Patton rapidly moved his U.S. Third Army north to help stop the German advance. In just a few weeks, the Germans were knocked back and the Allies headed into Germany.

21. The Battle of the Bulge was the largest battle in Western Europe during World War II, and the largest battle ever fought by the United States Army. It involved some 600,000 GIs, of whom about 80,000 were killed, wounded, or captured. German losses totaled about 100,000. After this battle, most Nazi leaders recognized that the war was lost.