3.4 end of WW2

AGE 9. The Time of World Wars
3.4 The end of World War 2

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AGE 9. The Time of World Wars
3.4 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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1944
ch 3.4: the end of WW2
Eastern Front: the Germans are in full retreat.

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

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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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The Allies will then attack the French Atlantic Coast
The day of the invasion will be D-Day: Decision Day

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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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