US in the European TheaterThe Big 3• FDR

• United States• Winston Churchill

• Great Britain • Josef Stalin

• Soviet Union

• Alliance between two ___________________________ and one __________________________ leader• Uneasy alliance• Meet several times• ________________and __________________ become friends• Unconditional surrender

Allied Forces • United States of America• Britain• Australia • France • USSR/ Russia/ Soviet Union• Plus several others • Total __________ Nations

Plan of Attack • _____________________________________________________________________• Military Plan

• _________________________________ on Germany and Italy • _________________________ on Germany • Peripheral strikes in the _________________________• Direct ____________________ on ____________________________

Stalingrad• Might be the _______________________________________________________ • ______________________________ for the Germans on land

• Destroys the German ___________________________ • Germany is in retreat from the east until the

reach Berlin• Stalin is angered because Allies did not help and

the Russian took the brunt of this attack • Lasts ____________________________________________

______________

Operation Torch• __________________________________________

_________________________• Brits had been there since

_________________• _____________________________ leader• Turning point of the war• First Front

Operation Overlord• ___________________________________________• ________________________ stormed _____ beachheads at Normandy coast

• 800,000 more men within 3 weeks; 3 million• Causalities: 2,245 Allies killed 1,670

wounded • Significance

• Established a strong _____________________ ( Russia VERY happy)

• August 1st 1944 Allies enter into Paris• End of the summer

•_______________________________________________

Battle of the Bulge • _________________________________• Germans last _________________________

• Move against US positions • _________________________________• 101st Airborne Div.• ____________________________ US Troops

killed • Stopped Hitler’s Last gasp counter

offensive

Victory over Europe• January advancing toward Germany

• Attack ______________________ with fire bombs killing __________________________ and destroying factories and rail lines

• April 1945• US approached Berlin form the

west while Soviets come from the East

• Italian resistance collapsing• Mussolini caught by Italian

resistance and killed • Hitler goes into a

_______________________________________

• Germany surrenders _______________________________________________

Movies On (Europe) WWII• Band Of Brothers• Saving Private

Ryan • Fury • We were soldiers

• The Monuments Men

• King’s Speech • Valkyrie • The Pianist • Red Tails

• Saints and Soldiers

• The Imitation Game

• Enemy at the Gates

• The Great Escape