USH2 Unit 5: America and the World

Lesson 5.3 part 7

Focus / Review Turning Points against the Japanese: - - -

Turning Points against the Germans: - - -

EQ What are the turning points in our war against

Germany.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMAxyOZez1YOperation Overlord

PUSHING BACK THE AXIS AFTER BRITISH AND

AMERICAN TROOPS WON VICTORIES OVER THE AXIS IN NORTH AFRICA, ALLIED LEADERS MADE PLANS FOR AN INVASION OF EUROPE.

STRIKING GERMANY AND ITALY IN JANUARY 1943, FDR

AND CHURCHILL MET AT THE CASABLANCA CONFERENCE IN MOROCCO

THE TWO LEADERS AGREED TO BEGIN A MASSIVE BOMBING CAMPAIGN OF GERMANY

ALSO AGREED TO ATTACK THE AXIS FORCES IN SICILY

STRATEGIC BOMBING BETWEEN 1943 AND

1945, THE ALLIES DROPPED 53,000 TONS OF EXPLOSIVES ON GERMANY EVERY MONTH

THE BOMBING CREATED AN OIL SHORTAGE AND DESTROYED THE RAIL SYSTEM AND FACTORIES

GERMAN AIRFORCE COULD NOT REPLACE PLANES LOST = ALLIES GAINED TOTAL CONTROL OF SKIES

STRIKING THE “SOFT UNDERBELLY” GENERAL EISENHOWER

WAS IN CHARGE OF THE SICILY INVASION.

ITALY’S KING HAD MUSSOLINI ARRESTED, BUT GERMAN TROOPS TOOK NORTHERN ITALY =

PUT MUSSOLINI BACK IN POWER

MUSSOLINI WOULD EVENTUALLY BE KILLED BY HIS OWN PEOPLE.

ITALIANS SURRENDER, GERMANY DOES NOT

AP Casablanca Conference 1. 2.

THE TEHRAN CONFERENCE FDR AND CHURCHILL MET

WITH STALIN IN LATE 1943. THEY REACHED SEVERAL AGREEMENTS:

GERMANY WOULD BE DIVIDED AFTER WAR

STALIN AGREED TO ATTACK GERMANY FROM EAST ONCE ALLIES LAND IN FRANCE

STALIN ALSO PROMISED TO HELP DEFEAT JAPAN AFTER GERMANY SURRENDERS

AP Tehran Conference 1 2 3

LANDING IN FRANCE INVASION OF FRANCE

KNOWN AS “OPERATION OVERLORD”

FDR SELECTED GENERAL EISENHOWER TO COMMAND THE INVASION

HITLER FORTIFIED COAST OF FRANCE IN ANTICIPATION

THE GERMANS WERE CONVINCED ALLIES WOULD LAND IN PAS-DE-CALAIS

TO FUEL THIS MISCONCEPTION, THE ALLIES PLACED A “DUMMY INVASION FORCE” NEAR THIS SECTOR

LANDING IN FRANCE - CONTINUED THEY ACTUALLY PLANNED TO LAND ON 5 BEACHES IN

NORMANDY KNOWN AS “UTAH, OMAHA, GOLD, SWORD, AND JUNO”

D-DAY BY THE SPRING OF

1944, THE ALLIES WERE READY FOR THE INVASION

INVASION BEGAN JUNE 6, 1944 = D-DAY

GERMAN RESISTANCE AT OMAHA BEACH WAS INTENSE

AP Note to Buddy

Band of Brothers Day of Days

Learning Log WHAT DID FDR AND CHURCHILL AGREE

TO AT CASABLANCA? WHAT WAS THE RESULT OF MASSIVE

BOMBING CAMPAIGN OVER GERMANY? WHAT WAS THE RESULT OF THE

ITALIAN CAMPAIGN? WHAT AGREEMENTS WERE MADE

BETWEEN CHURCHILL, FDR, AND STALIN AT TEHRAN?

WHO DID FDR CHOOSE TO COMMAND OPERATION OVERLORD?

WHERE DID THE GERMANS BELIEVE THE ALLIES WOULD MOST LIKELY LAND IN REGARD TO THE INVASION OF EUROPE?

WHERE DID THE ALLIES LAND? WHICH BEACH SUFFERED THE MOST

CASUALTIES? WHY WAS D-DAY SUCCESS SO VITAL

TO ALLIED VICTORY?