Warm-Up 4/28

Complete the review sheet in the following order:

1. Individually, without your notes

2. Then, with your notes3. Finally, check answers

with your partner

Agenda 4/28

• Warm-Up• Review Class Schedule• The War In Europe Notes (Part II)• “War in Europe” Video• Prepare Review Questions

Upcoming Class Schedule

• Today: Finish the War in Europe• Friday, 4/30: End of War/Legacy• Monday, 5/3: Review Session for

Exam• Wednesday, 5/5: Movie • Friday, 5/7: WWII Exam

Assignment #45: War in Europe Notes (Part II)

Churchill and FDR Meeting

• December 22, 1941• Meet at the White

House to develop joint war policy

• Plan: weaken Germany on two fronts1. North Africa/southern

Europe2. France

North Africa Campaign

• Codename: “Operation Torch”– Over 100,000 Allied

troops

• Launched as Rommel retreats West after GB victory

• Africa Korp beaten by May 1943

• Allied victory

Major Players:– Gen. Rommel (Germany)– Gen. Montgomery (GB)– Gen. Eisenhower (US)

What happened to Barbarossa?

• Germans had been stalled at Leningrad and Moscow

• Ready to attack after recovering from winter

• Launch Battle of Stalingrad Aug. 1942

• Another winter…Soviets surround Germans

• 90K Germans surrender; Soviets march West

Italy

• Attack decided by FDR and Churchill after meeting at Casablanca

• July 1943, “Operation Husky” launched

• Allies capture Sicily and topple Mussolini

• Italy surrenders, but fighting continues through 1945

Now onto France…

• Part Two of the two-front strategy

• Plan: attack Germans across the English Channel at Normandy

• Big fight, but Allies dig in until more troops arrive

• Aug 25 – Allies march into Paris

D-Day FactsJune 6, 1944Led by Gen. Eisenhower3.5 million troopsCodename: “Operation

Overlord”Greatest land and sea

attack in history

Battle of the Bulge• Sept. 1944 – France,

Belgium, Netherlands free from Germans

• Dec. 1944 - Battle of the Bulge = last German offensive

• Allies win• Hitler commits suicide at

Chancellery Bunker the next April

• German surrender in May 1945

Prep for Review Session1. Fascism – 3/17, 3/262. Competing Ideologies – 3/243. WWII Causes – 3/294. Hitler and Stalin – 4/25. Fall of France/Battle of Britain – 4/56. Operation Barbarossa – 4/77. Pearl Harbor – 4/7, 4/268. Holocaust – 4/9, 4/239. War in the Pacific – 4/2610. War in Europe – 4/28

Your Group’s Task

• Draft 3-5 review questions within your group about your assigned topic

• Format: Multiple Choice with four options (A,B,C,D)

• You must write out each question and answer on a sheet of binder paper and turn it in

• Circle the correct answer