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■ Warm Up Question:
From 1939 to 1942, the Axis Powers
dominated Europe, North Africa, & Asia
Germany used blitzkrieg tactics to
dominate Eastern & Western Europe
The Alliesthe
When defeated Germany Instead, Britain & USA
USA entered
at the Battle
WWII, the In 1945,
of El Alamein
Stalin wanted agreedMussolini wasAxis
to fight the
inAllies
1942to&open
thenapushed
Westernthecaptured
Powers& executed by
in North Africa
Axis&Powers
Front army the Italian
out of Africa
divide German (Stalinresistance
was angry )
Meanwhile, the Soviet
The Soviet victory army
at Stalingrad The
wasSoviets defeated
a turning point
stopped
in Worldthe
WarGerman attack
II because theatRussians
the German army at
began pushing
Moscow & Leningrad
towards Germanyin 1942 theEast
from the Battle
by of Stalingrad
1943
In 1943, Joseph Stalin (USSR), At the Tehran
Franklin Roosevelt (USA), & Conference, the “Big
Winston Churchill (Britain) Three” agreed to open
met in Tehran to coordinate a second front to divide
a plan to defeat Germany the German army
By 1944, the Allies
decided to open a
Western Front by invading
Nazi-occupied France
Operation Overlord
(called D-Day) in June
1944 was the largest land
& sea attack in history
The…and allowedinvasion
Normandy the At the same time, the Soviet
Allies
was to push but
deadly, towards
the army pushed from the East
Germany from the
Allied victory West
created
a Western Front…
Aerial
Victims
view
ofof
Tokyo
Tokyo
firebombing
during bombing
Despite losing control of
the Pacific & withstanding
firebomb attacks, Japan
refused to surrender
By May 1945, the war
in Europe was over &
U.S. began preparing for
a land invasion of Japan