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European Theater!
Northern Africa!
 
 
 
 
 
 
France surrendered to Germany in 1940!
Germany occupied most of France & took control of
France’s African colonies!
GB prevented Axis from taking Suez Canal!
Operation Torch: Allies invade French/German
colonies in Northwest Africa!
Cut off German supplies by bombing landing areas in
Tunisia!
Surrounded Axis troops from East & West &
Mediterranean Sea... May 1943 in Tunisia, 250,000
Axis troops surrendered!
Operation Torch!
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Operation Torch!
Invasion of Italy!
 
After controlling Africa... Allies invaded Sicily!
 
Took control of Sicily... planned on invading Italy!
 
Italian King arrested & replaced Benito Mussolini!
 
Germany created base for Mussolini in Northern Italy!
 
Italy signed Armistice with Allied Troops!
 
 
 
Oct 1943: Allied Troops entered Southern Italy and
slowly fought North to drive out German troops!
June 1944: Allied Troops & 25 other nations defeated
German troops!
Mussolini was captured & shot by Italian rebels!
Battle Of The Atlantic!
 
 
 
German U-Boats took Allied ships, lives & supplies!
Allies improved & implemented sonar to detect UBoats underwater!
Allies created “escort ships” to protect war &
supply ships!
 
Allies began bombing U-Boats & submarine yards!
 
By 1944... Allies WON Battle of The Atlantic!
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Operation Overlord!
 
 
 
 
 
Allied land, sea & air invasion of German occupied
France!
General Dwight D. Eisenhower led Allied invasion!
Allies allowed Germany to discover false clues & set
up dummy installations to throw Germany off target!
Landed in Normandy on D-DAY on June 6, 1944!
Allies used 5,000 amphibious landing craft... 150,000
US, GB & Canadian Troops... dropped 23,000 troops
behind enemy lines... bombed roads, bridges & German
troop headquarters!
Operation Overlord!
Operation Overlord!
 
 
 
 
 
 
Germany had Normandy beaches fortified with...
Concrete bunkers, tank traps & land mines!
Allies penetrated 20 miles into France by July!
Allies & French Resistance liberated Paris on August
25, 1944!
By September 2 million Allied troops were in Western
Europe!
Allied troops drove North from Mediterranean & East
from Normandy Beach!
Soviet troops fought Germany in Poland/USSR!
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Operation Overlord!
WWII Operations Map!
WWII Operations Map!
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Homework!
 
Journal Entry Assignment: Imagine yourself
as an Allied Troop during D-Day.!
The Holocaust!
Journal Reactions!
 
Meaning? <-- “To Burn”.... does this
accurately describe what happened?!
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Video Reactions!
 
 
 
What are your
reactions to this
video?!
How were Allied
troops’ reactions
portrayed?!
How would you have
reacted if you were
those soldiers?!
Homework!
 
Homework: Current Events Europe!
Journal Reactions!
 
“A lie repeated a thousand times becomes a
truth” - Joseph Goebbels (Nazi Information
Minister)!
 
What does this quote mean? How does it
relate to the Holocaust? Do you believe
this quote is accurate?!
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Eli Wiesel’s Night!
Hitler’s Holocaust
1937-1946!
Hitler’s Nazi Youth!
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Homework!
 
Journal Entry Assignment: Life In
Concentration Camp!
Adolf Hitler’s Mein
Kampf!
 
 
 
The Jew has always been a people with
definite racial characteristics and never a
religion.!
...the personification of the devil as the symbol
of all evil assumes the living shape of the Jew.!
Hence today I believe that I am acting in
accordance with the will of the Almighty
Creator: 'by defending myself against the Jew,
I am fighting for the work of the Lord.'!
Elie Wiesel’s Night!
 
 
 
 
"The yellow star? Oh well, what of it? You don't die
of it."!
"Do you see that chimney over there? See it? Do you
see those flames? (Yes, we did see the flames.) Over
there-that's where you're going to be taken. That's
your grave, over there."!
"Never shall I forget those moments which murdered
my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust.
Never shall I forget these things, even if I am
condemned to live as long as God Himself. Never."!
"From the depths of the mirror, a corpse gazed back
at me. The look in his eyes, as they stared into mine,
has never left me."!
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The Diary of Anne Frank!
 
 
"Our many Jewish friends and acquaintances are being taken
away in droves. The Gestapo is treating them very roughly
and transporting them in cattle cars to Westerbork, the big
camp in Drenthe to which they're sending all the Jews....If
it's that bad in Holland, what must it be like in those
faraway and uncivilized places where the Germans are
sending them? We assume that most of them are being
murdered. The English radio says they're being gassed."October 9, 1942!
"All college students are being asked to sign an official
statement to the effect that they 'sympathize with the
Germans and approve of the New Order." Eighty percent
have decided to obey the dictates of their conscience, but
the penalty will be severe. Any student refusing to sign will
be sent to a German labor camp." - May 18, 1943!
The Diary of Anne Frank!
 
 
 
"I've reached the point where I hardly care whether I live
or die. The world will keep on turning without me, and I
can't do anything to change events anyway. I'll just let
matters take their course and concentrate on studying and
hope that everything will be all right in the end." February 3, 1944!
"...but the minute I was alone I knew I was going to cry my
eyes out. I slid to the floor in my nightgown and began by
saying my prayers, very fervently. Then I drew my knees to
my chest, lay my head on my arms and cried, all huddled up
on the bare floor. A loud sob brought me back down to
earth..." - April 5, 1944!
"It’s a wonder I haven’t abandoned all my ideals, they seem
so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I
still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly
good at heart.!
Pastor Martin
Niemoller’s First They
Came...!
 
First the came for the Communists,
and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a
Communist.
Then they came for the Trade Unionists,
and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a Trade
Unionist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a Jew.
Then they came for me,
and there was no one left to speak out for me.!
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Homework!
 
Journal Entry Assignment: Life in the Jewish
Ghetto!
WHOTS & Portfolio
Maintenance!
 
Use Computer’s to find a quote from the previous day!
 
 
 
Write a personal reaction to this quote.!
Meaning/Underlying meaning... historical
relevance... your opinion/reaction... do you
agree or disagree with quote... etc.!
Get Portfolio & Organize it into:!
 
 
 
MP 1, MP 2, MP 3!
Keep CEs, Journal Entry HW, Tests, Essays (All
Higher Order Thinking ASssignments)!
Throw out anything else!!!!
Defeating Germany!
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Battle of the Bulge!
 
Sept 1944:!
 
Allies crossed German border... paused for supplies!
 
Germans counter-attacked & broke Allied lines!
 
Created a “bulge” shape in troop lines!
 
 
 
200,000 Germans vs. 80,000 Allies!
Germany demanded Allied surrender.... Allies did
not!
Allied Reinforcements came in... January 1945...
German offensive failed... Allies won Battle of the
Bulge!
Battle of the Bulge!
Battle Of The Bulge!
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Yalta Conference!
 
February 1945: FDR (US), Stalin (USSR), Churchill
(GB).... plan for postwar peace!
 
 
 
 
USSR would declare war on Japan after
Germany surrendered!
Agreed to divide & occupy Germany!
Outlined creation of International peace
organization!
FDR won his 4th term as US President!
Race To Berlin!
 
 
 
 
Allied planes continued “fire bombing” of German
cities... 30,000 to 60,000 CIVILIANS died!
US/GB forces & USSR forces raced to Berlin while
claiming German land!
USSR first to Berlin!
April 30th, 1945: Hitler commits suicide in Bunker
with mistress Eva Braun!
 
May 7: Germany’s unconditional surrender!
 
May 8: Victory in Europe Day!
QUIZ TOMORROW!
 
STUDY!!!!!!!!
 
 
 
Operation Torch (Where? Outcome?)!
Operation Overlord (Other name? Where?
Outcome?)!
Battle Of The Atlantic (main reasons for Allied
victory?)!
 
Battle Of The Bulge (outcome?)!
 
Yalta Conference (what was agreed upon?)!
 
Race to Berlin (between who? outcome?)!
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