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Warm-Up 4/28

Warm-Up 4/28. Complete the review sheet in the following order: Individually, without your notes Then, with your notes Finally, check answers with your partner. Agenda 4/28. Warm-Up Review Class Schedule The War In Europe Notes (Part II) “War in Europe” Video Prepare Review Questions.

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Warm-Up 4/28

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  1. Warm-Up 4/28 Complete the review sheet in the following order: • Individually, without your notes • Then, with your notes • Finally, check answers with your partner

  2. Agenda 4/28 • Warm-Up • Review Class Schedule • The War In Europe Notes (Part II) • “War in Europe” Video • Prepare Review Questions

  3. Upcoming Class Schedule • Today: Finish the War in Europe • Friday, 4/30: End of War/Legacy • Monday, 5/3: Review Session for Exam • Wednesday, 5/5: Movie • Friday, 5/7: WWII Exam

  4. Assignment #45: War in Europe Notes (Part II)

  5. Churchill and FDR Meeting • December 22, 1941 • Meet at the White House to develop joint war policy • Plan: weaken Germany on two fronts • North Africa/southern Europe • France

  6. North Africa Campaign • Codename: “Operation Torch” • Over 100,000 Allied troops • Launched as Rommel retreats West after GB victory • Africa Korp beaten by May 1943 • Allied victory Major Players: • Gen. Rommel (Germany) • Gen. Montgomery (GB) • Gen. Eisenhower (US)

  7. What happened to Barbarossa? • Germans had been stalled at Leningrad and Moscow • Ready to attack after recovering from winter • Launch Battle of Stalingrad Aug. 1942 • Another winter…Soviets surround Germans • 90K Germans surrender; Soviets march West

  8. Italy • Attack decided by FDR and Churchill after meeting at Casablanca • July 1943, “Operation Husky” launched • Allies capture Sicily and topple Mussolini • Italy surrenders, but fighting continues through 1945

  9. Now onto France… • Part Two of the two-front strategy • Plan: attack Germans across the English Channel at Normandy • Big fight, but Allies dig in until more troops arrive • Aug 25 – Allies march into Paris D-Day Facts • June 6, 1944 • Led by Gen. Eisenhower • 3.5 million troops • Codename: “Operation Overlord” • Greatest land and sea attack in history

  10. Battle of the Bulge • Sept. 1944 – France, Belgium, Netherlands free from Germans • Dec. 1944 - Battle of the Bulge = last German offensive • Allies win • Hitler commits suicide at Chancellery Bunker the next April • German surrender in May 1945

  11. Prep for Review Session • Fascism – 3/17, 3/26 • Competing Ideologies – 3/24 • WWII Causes – 3/29 • Hitler and Stalin – 4/2 • Fall of France/Battle of Britain – 4/5 • Operation Barbarossa – 4/7 • Pearl Harbor – 4/7, 4/26 • Holocaust – 4/9, 4/23 • War in the Pacific – 4/26 • War in Europe – 4/28

  12. Your Group’s Task • Draft 3-5 review questions within your group about your assigned topic • Format: Multiple Choice with four options (A,B,C,D) • You must write out each question and answer on a sheet of binder paper and turn it in • Circle the correct answer

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