9.3.3 The end of WW2 -TEACH-

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AGE 9. The Time of World Wars

9.3C The end of World War 2

people in this lesson

Roosevelt

president

USA

Hitler

Führer

Germany

Eisenhower

general

USA

Stalin

Leader

USSR

Truman

president

USA

Allies

Axis Powers

Make sure you know who fought against who from 1942 onwards

Feb. 1943:

Lesson 9.3C: The end of WW2

Eastern Front: the Germans are in full retreat.

German loss of Stalingrad

Berlin

Stalingrad

Moscow

The Red Army pushes into Europe, towards Germany

1944:

But Stalin has not been happy with his Western Allies

He demands that they open a "Second Front" soon.

We are 

doing all the fighting. 

We suffer 

         the most!

Why don't 

the US and Britain    

 attack the Germans from the west?

          Give them a two                front war? 

Hmm, I don't 

trust Stalin.

    What's wrong with

           Nazis and Communists              killing each 

            other ?

Roosevelt and Churchill agree to a western invasion.

Preparations for Operation "Overlord" begin.

We must 

help Stalin. 

He's our 

ally now!

main points:

US and UK would invade Western Europe in 1944: Operation Overlord (D-Day)

After the defeat of Hitler, Stalin would declare war on Japan.

The S.U. would annex the Baltic States

Tehran Conference 1943

meanwhile: 

The Germans were building defenses along the entire Atlantic Coast

They called it: the Atlantic Wall

In charge of the Atlantic Wall was general Erwin Rommel

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