B. Operation Torch (Nov. ’42)
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B. Operation Torch (Nov. ’42)
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B. Operation Torch (Nov. ’42). C. Operation Overlord/D-Day June 6, 1944. Gen. Eisenhower with D-Day troops; unconditional surrender!. Last offensive attack by Germany Germany never recoups Largest # of men served/worst casualties for Allies. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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C. Operation Overlord/D-DayJune 6, 1944
Gen. Eisenhower with D-Day troops; unconditional surrender!
D. Battle of the Bulge/Ardennes(Dec. 44-Jan.45)
1. Last offensive attack by Germany
2. Germany never recoups3. Largest # of men
served/worst casualties for Allies
E. Gen. Dwight Eisenhower
1. Supreme Commander of Europea. Operation Torchb. D-Dayc. V-E Day
On to the Pacific!
Places of Conflict
F. The Pacific & Island Hopping
1. Battle of Midway: “payback” for P.H. (Jun ’42)
a. Japan w/largest fleet ever ensemble; 110 ship
b. Allies outnumbered 4/1c. Japan never recoversd. Safeguard Hawaii and
communications
2. Iwo Jima: refueling and bombing Japan
3. Battle of Okinawa (4/’45)
a. Last major battle in the pacificb. More men than in D-Day c. Worst US casualties in the Pacific
kamikaze
25.6:The Last Stages of War
The Holocaust: The systematic murder of 11 million people across Europe, more
than half of whom were Jews
A. Holocaust
1. Nuremberg Laws2. Kristallnacht:
crystal night (1938)3. Final solution =
genocide
*A. German Forces1. Schutzstaffel: started
as Hitler’s bodyguards. (Himmler)
2. Gestapo: the Secret State police (Goering)
3. German army
Hitler’s top men…
Goering Himmler Goebbels
*Gestapo controlled concentration camps; <half of those who died here are shown
*C. Where can the Jews go?(1933)
1. Refugee problem…a. Quotas on immigrantsb. National Origins Act of 1929; limited immigration
to 150,000 in U.S.2. U.S., depression, refugees…
– How are these connected?
*D. The Final Solution: Genocide
1. The condemned: Jews and any other seen as undesirable
a. Political opponents – communists, socialistb. Religious groupsc. Homosexualsd. Disabled; mentally, physically
2. Method a. Shot in cold bloodb. starved ghettosc. sent to labor/concentration campsd. Used for medical experiments
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*E. Concentration Camps
Jewish Ghetto
To the right, slave laborTo the left, gas chamber
*F. Death Marches
B. Yalta Conference(Feb. 4, 1945)
1. Agreed to:a. “Spheres of
influence”b. Membership terms
for United Nationc. Stalin agrees to enter
Pacific frontd. Soviet troops can
stay in occupied lands but no building of “empire” in Eastern Europe
e. Division of Germany and Berlin
C. FDR Passes awayApril 12, 1945
D. Potsdam Conference (6/’45)
1. Unconditional surrender of Japan
2. Stalin to enter Aug. 8, ‘45
Truman, Attlee and Stalin
E. Manhattan Project: To drop or not to drop the bomb…
1. No need to invade Japan
2. Lives of American troops saved
3. Would bring an end to the war more rapidly
4. Would stop the Soviet Union from entering war and possibly taking over lands in the region
Oppenheimer
US sites important to Manhattan Project
F. Nuremberg War TrialsTrials of Nazi leaders at Nuremberg, Germany
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Barbarossa June 1941
1. Making advances early on
2. Industrial city3. winter
Dresden (Feb. 1945)
1. Civilian city2. Communication center3. Destroys moral and economy4. Luftwaffe lose many airplanes
