9.3C The end of WW2 -TEACH-

AGE 9. The Time of World Wars
9.3C The end of World War 2

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AGE 9. The Time of World Wars
9.3C The end of World War 2

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people in this lesson
Roosevelt
president
USA
Hitler
Führer
Germany
Eisenhower
general
USA
Stalin
Leader
USSR
Truman
president
USA

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Allies
Axis Powers
Make sure you know who fought against who from 1942 onwards

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Feb. 1943:
Lesson 9.3C: The end of WW2
Eastern Front: the Germans are in full retreat.
German loss of Stalingrad

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Berlin
Stalingrad
Moscow
The Red Army pushes into Europe, towards Germany
1944:

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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? 

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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!

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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

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meanwhile: 

The Germans were building defenses along the entire Atlantic Coast

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They called it: the Atlantic Wall

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In charge of the Atlantic Wall was general Erwin Rommel

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