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World War II- In Europe
North Africa
· 1940 British and Italian forces clash. Italians are beaten
· Enter Germany and General Erwin Rommel
“______________________”
· Rommel pushes British forces back to ______________
· British troops gets a new commander General Bernard
_______________________.
· Montgomery rebuilds the British Army and attacks
· Battle of _____________________ Nov. 1942
· Montgomery attacks, beats Rommel
Operation Torch
· American Forces land in French North Africa
· American suffer huge defeat at ___________________ Pass
· New General- ___________________________
· Americans from the West and British from the East force
Germany out of Africa
The Eastern Front
Battle of Stalingrad
· The Battle Started in July 1942 and ended in Jan 1943
· The German 6th Army is stopped by the Russians
· This defeat is the ___________________________________ on the
Eastern Front.
· Considered one to the bloodiest battles of the war. Germany
lost _____________________ killed, missing or wounded
· Of the 91,000 German that surrendered, only 5,000 made it back
home.
Invasion of Italy, 1943
Combined British & American invasion of Italy didn’t go very
well, but it stretched the German army very thin
D-Day – Operation Overlord (June 6th, 1944)
Normandy Landing
· American and British forces land on the beaches of Normandy,
and gain a foothold in France
Pointe du Hoc
· It was a nearly 100-meter-high cliff, with
_______________________ sides jutting out into the Channel.
· It looked down on Utah Beach to the left and Omaha Beach to
the right. There were six 155mm cannon in heavily reinforced
concrete bunkers that were capable of hitting either beach
Airborne Assault
· The 82nd and 101st Airborne troops were dropped behind enemy
lines to secure important cross roads to prevent the Germans from
reinforcing the coast.
· The drop was a ____________________, troops were dropped all
over northern France
BATTLE OF THE BULGE
· Dec. 16, 1944 to Jan. 28, 1945 Hitler tries one last attack to
split the Allies
· Attack fails due to the Americans that hold on to the town of
Bastogne
*German _________________________________ against American and
British forces
* Despite heavy casualties, the _____________ line holds
* Last serious Nazi ___________________
German Defeat
*As ___________________ forces approached Berlin, Hitler
committed _______________________ on April 30th, 1945
*Germany _______________________________ to the allies on May
7th, 1945 (V-E Day)
*V(ictory-E(urope) Day (May 8, 1945)
