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Allied Victory in World War II: Strategies and Turning Points

Explore the Allied war plans, key battles, and strategies that led to victory in WWII. From Stalingrad to D-Day, analyze the impact of military tactics on the outcome of the war.

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Allied Victory in World War II: Strategies and Turning Points

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  1. Do Now & Objective Objective analyze Allied war plans and key battles to determine their effect on the war Do Now • Looking at the map of German occupied Europe, what would be your plan to invade and defeat Hitler?

  2. The Allies are Victorious Chapter 32 Section 4

  3. I Allied Plan for Victory & Turning of the Tide • Stalin wants allies to open front in west to relieve pressure in the east • 2 fronts = fighting in 2 regions • Plan = weaken Germany on 2 fronts  death blow • Start attack in N Africa angers Stalin-wanted France • General “Monty” beats “desert fox”  retreat • Operation Torch lead by Eisenhower  destruction of AfrikaKorps

  4. After winter is over in Russia  Hitler sending troops to seize oil fields & to capture Stalingrad =Major industrial center Battle of Stalingrad • Luftwaffe destroys city but Russians ordered not to retreat • Russia counters but German’s ordered not to retreat • Battle of Stalingrad = TURNING POINT of war • Germany took too many losses and could only defend & retreat from this point on

  5. Italian Campaign • Allies attack Italy  toppling of Mussolini • Mussolini fired by King  but back by Hitler • Allies enter & Mussolini captured • Shot & hung in Milan square

  6. II Life on Allied Home Fronts • US convert peacetime factories to wartime production  shortage of consumer goods • Millions of Americans working in war industries (women) • Allied powers propaganda to inspire more effort on home front • Also prejudice prop after Pearl Harbor • Japanese Internment

  7. III Allied Victory in Europe • D-Day = day of the invasion of France at Normandy beaches • Eisenhower in charge of Operation Overlord • Fake invasion fort at Calias http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCLJhxfj608 – D Day invasion

  8. From France they head to Germany from the west • Hitler orders large counterattack in west to split allied troops • Broke into American lines giving it the name Battle of the Bulge • Allies eventually win  Hitler’s losses lead him to only be able to retreat from that point on • Hitler & his wife commit suicide • Eisenhower accepts unconditional surrender from the Third Reich • V-E Day = victory in Europe Day

  9. V-E day marks end of fighting in Europe but fighting still in the Pacific theater Battle of Leyte Gulf • Japanese risk entire fleet to destroy the American fleet • Japanese suffered huge loss  could no longer effectively fight Kamikaze • Iwo Jima  Iconic photo raising the flag • Manhattan Project  A-bomb used in Hiroshima & Nagasaki  Japanese surrender

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