1. 14:4 Striking Germany and Italy Casablanca Conference
Roosevelt and Churchill decide to step up bombing of Germany
Goals:
Destroy German industrial output
Destroy German economy
Undermine morale of German people

2. 14:4 Striking the “soft underbelly”
Churchill believed Italy would surrender easily
Allied troops invade Sicily (July, 1943)
Allied General: Dwight D. Eisenhower
Patton and British General Montgomery head land forces
Germans abandon Sicily
Allies take Italy year later

3. 14:4 The Tehran Conference Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin
Russia would attack Germans when Allies took France
Divide Germany after the war
Russia would help US against Japan
Create an international peacekeeping organization after the war

4. 14:4 Operation Overlord Allies plan for taking France
Led by General Eisenhower
1,500,000 American soldiers
12,000 airplanes
5 million tons of equipment

5. 14:4 “D”- Day Name given to day Operation Overlord began June 6, 1944
Largest amphibious operation in history
7,000 ships carrying 100,000 soldiers
23,000 paratroopers

6. 14:4
Driving Japan Back
Navy starts “Island Hopping” campaign

7. 14:4 Japan begins Kamikaze attacks Kamikaze means “divine wind”
Pilots flew planes into ships