9.3.3 The end of WW2 -TEACH-

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AGE 9. The Time of World Wars

9.3.3 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

“This Berlin-Rome alliance is not a barrier, it is rather an axis around which all European States animated by a desire for peace may collaborate"

Mussolini, 1936

Feb. 1943:

Lesson 9.3.3: 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

World War 2

June 6, 1944

• Operation Overlord (D-Day)
• Normandy

histoclips

vanaf 6.00 min

Graf von Stauffenberg

Graf von Stauffenberg

World War 2

August 1944

• Paris liberated

World War 2

September 1944

• Operation Market Garden
• (Eindhoven liberated)

World War 2

May 8 1945

• V-E Day
• Germany capitulates
• End of WW2 in Europe

World War 2

August 6 + 9,  1945

• atomic bombs on Hiroshima & Nagasaki

World War 2

August 15,  1945

• Japan capitulates
• End of WW2

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