1. U. S. boosts Allies’ morale & strength
Allies are Victorious
U. S. boosts Allies’ morale & strength

2. German General Rommel (Desert Fox) took Tobruk in June of 1942
North Africa
German General Rommel (Desert Fox) took Tobruk in June of 1942
British General Montgomery forces the Germans to retreat from N. Africa at El Alamein
November 8th, Allies led by General Eisenhower, supreme leader, defeat Rommel

5. Battle of Stalingrad
Germans invade U.S.S.R. at Leningrad and Moscow – Russian winter stalls invasion
August 1942, Germany advances toward Stalingrad
Air attacks – Stalin orders – “not 1 step backward”
November – Germany holds 90% of Stalingrad
Soviet counterattack trapped Germans in the city
Winter hits – Hitler, “hold city at all cost”

7. Results of Stalingrad By February 2, 1943:
240,000 Germans dead / 90,000 surrender
Over 1 million Soviets dead
99% of the city is destroyed
Germans are pushed westward

8. The Invasion of Italy
Stalin asks Allies to invade France / they refuse
July 1943 Allies invade Sicily
Mussolini and his thugs arrested / jailed
Liberated by the Germans
Hides in Northern Italy
Captured / executed in April 1945

13. The D Day Invasion
June 6, 1944, Allies land at 5 beach points in France
A 60 mile stretch of beach
Germans dug-in with machine guns, launchers and cannons
German protected by concrete walls
3,000 Americans died that day
Allies held the beach

14. General Patton July 1944 One million troops land in France
Germans retreat to the east
August 25 Allies march into Paris
By September, France is liberated

15. The Battle of the Bulge Allies move into Germany from the west
Soviets invade from the east
A war on two fronts
Hitler moves tanks into Allied defenses
German deaths 15,652.
Captured & MIA 27,582
Wounded 41,600.

16. Germany Surrenders April 12, 1945 President Roosevelt dies
President Harry S. Truman takes over
April 30, Hitler takes his own life
May 7, German military unconditionally surrenders

17. U.S. government propaganda had negative effects on civil rights
Internment Camps
U.S. government propaganda had negative effects on civil rights
American born citizens of Japanese descent mostly in Hawaii and on the west coast were relocated to military camps
Fear of a Japanese invasion moved 31,275 people who also lost their property
German American, about 12,000, also interned, as were Italians in smaller numbers

18. Victory in the Pacific
After Allied victory at Guadalcanal, Japanese expansion stopped
Allied forces land at Leyte in the Philippines
Japan risked its entire fleet
Kamikaze – suicide planes crash into Allied ships
The Japanese navy is eliminated from the war

19. Major Allied Victory
The battle at Okinawa left 110,000 dead Japanese to 12,500 American deaths
Next stop was Japan / an estimated 500,000 American lives would be lost in the invasion

20. The Atomic Bomb The newly built, most powerful weapon of the time
President Truman warned the Japanese of a, ”rain of ruin from the air”
There was no reply
Truman decided to use it to quickly end the war

21. Rain of Fire
Hiroshima – city in Japan – August 6, first atomic bomb
45,000 dead at initial blast – 19,000 in next 4 months
Nagasaki – August 9, 1945 – second bomb
37,500 dead at initial blast
More than 200,000 casualties