SECTION 3. BY LATE 1941, THE AXIS POWERS PUSHED THE ALLIES NEARLY TO THE BREAKING POINT AXIS...
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Transcript of SECTION 3. BY LATE 1941, THE AXIS POWERS PUSHED THE ALLIES NEARLY TO THE BREAKING POINT AXIS...
A DESPERATE SITUATION
BY LATE 1941, THE AXIS POWERS PUSHED THE ALLIES NEARLY TO THE BREAKING POINT
AXIS POWERS OCCUPIED GREECE & YUGOSLAVIA
AXIS POWERS WERE ADVANCING IN NORTH AFRICA
FDR AND CHURCHILL MET IN WASHINGTON DC AND DECIDED TO WAIT ON AN INVASION AGAINST JAPAN
A DESPERATE SITUATION
IN JANUARY OF 1942 CHINA AND THE USSR AGREED TO HELP DEFEAT THE AXIS POWERS AND TO NOT MAKE A SEPARATE PEACE AGREEMENT
SONAR WAS CREATED BY THE ALLIES TO HELP PROTECT SHIPS
NEWER LONG-RANGE BOMBERS HELPED PROTECT OUR SHIPS AS WELL
ALLIES STARTED MAKING BOMBING RUNS INTO GERMANY AND TRYING TO KNOCK OUT FACTORIES, MILITARY TARGETS, AND RAILROADS
NORTH AFRICA AND ITALY
SEPT OF 1940, ITALIAN FORCES ATTACKED EGYPT FROM LIBYA AFTER THE SUEZ CANAL BRITISH RESISTED
ERWIN ROMMEL LEADER OF GERMAN’S TANK CORPS IN AFRICA AKA THE DESERT FOX
BERNARD MONTGOMERY LEADER OF BRITAIN’S TANK
CORPS IN AFRICA
NORTH AFRICA AND ITALY
BATTLE OF EL ALAMEIN WHERE MONTGOMERY STOPPED
ROMMEL’S ADVANCEMENT DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER
LEADER OF THE US TANK CORPS MASTER STRATEGIST ABLE TO EVENTUALLY DEFEAT ROMMEL IN
1943 AND HE THEN ESCAPED TO EUROPE
NORTH AFRICA AND ITALY
RESULTED IN ITALY AS THE NEXT DESTINATION FOR THE ALLIES
CHURCHILL CALLED ITALY “SOFT UNDERBELLY OF EUROPE”
JULY OF 1943 ALLIES TROOPS LANDED IN SICILY BY SEPT THE ALLIES LANDED ON THE MAINLAND AS THE ALLIES ADVANCED, MUSSOLINI WAS IN
SERIOUS TROUBLE AND HITLER CAME TO SAVE HIM WITH 1000s OF GERMAN SOLDIERS
NORTH AFRICA AND ITALY
FIGHTING THEN RAGED ON FOR MONTHS WITH GERMANY’S HELP
BY JUNE 1944, ROME WAS FINALLY CAPTURED
APRIL 1945, MUSSOLINI WAS CAPTURED AND KILLED BY ITALIAN RESISTANT FIGHTERS
BY MAY 1945, THE GERMANS WERE PUSHED OUT OF ITALY
TURNING POINTS
EARLY 1943 THE ALLIES HAD BEGUN THEIR FINAL PUSH TO DEFEAT THE AXIS POWERS
BATTLE OF STALINGRAD BLOCK BY BLOCK BATTLE IN THE CITY GERMANS SURRENDERED IN JANUARY OF
1943 OVER 200,000 GERMANS DIED DURING
THIS BATTLE
TURNING POINTS
KURSK HUGE TANK BATTLE IN THE SOVIET UNION GERMANY VS. USSR GERMANS LOST
GEORGE C. MARSHALL FDR’S TOP MILITARY ADVISOR PUT GENERAL EISENHOWER IN CHARGE OF
AN ALLIED INVASION OF FRANCE
TURNING POINTS
D-DAY ALLIED INVASION OF GERMAN OCCUPIED
FRANCE STARTED ON JUNE 6, 1944 WAS THE LARGEST SEA AND LAND
INVASION IN HISTORY LANDED IN NORMANDY, FRANCE BY THE END OF THE FIRST DAY, OVER
155,000 ALLED SOLDIERS WERE IN FRANCE
TURNING POINTS
OMAR BRADLEY GENERAL IN CHARGE OF TAKING THE
BEACHES AND PUSHING INLAND GEORGE S. PATTON
TANK COMMANDER FOR THE US THAT BROKE THROUGH THE GERMAN LINES IN JULY
TURNING POINTS
ALLIED SOLDIERS WERE NOW ALSO PUSHING NORTHWARD FROM ITALY THROUGH SOUTHERN FRANCE
FRANCE WOULD NOW SOON BE FREE AGAIN
BY AUGUST OF 1944, PARIS WAS ONCE AGAIN FREE
THE BATTLE OF THE BULGE
DECEMBER OF 1944, HITLER’S LAST OFFENSIVE OF THE WAR TOOK PLACE
DESPARATE ATTEMPT TO STOP THE ALLIES
WAS IN THE ARDENNE FOREST ATTACKED THE US FORCES IN THIS
AREA US SUFFERED OVER 77,000
CASUALTIES WE EVENTUALLY WON THE BATTLE AND
PUSHED THE GERMANS BACK