9.3.3 The end of WW2 -TEACH-

The Time of World Wars

The end of World War 2

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The Time of World Wars

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

“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

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Feb. 1943:

Lesson: 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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World War 2

June 6, 1944

Operation Overlord (D-Day)
Normandy

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Graf von Stauffenberg

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Graf von Stauffenberg

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World War 2

August 1944

Paris liberated

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World War 2

September 1944

Operation Market Garden
(Eindhoven liberated)

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World War 2

May 8 1945

V-E Day
Germany capitulates
End of WW2 in Europe

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histoclips

vanaf 6.00 min

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World War 2

August 6 + 9, 1945

atomic bombs on Hiroshima & Nagasaki

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World War 2

August 15, 1945

Japan capitulates
End of WW2

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nuclearsecrecy.com

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