The Royal Air ForceThe Royal Air Force

The London “Tube”:Air Raid Shelters during the

Blitz

The London “Tube”:Air Raid Shelters during the

Blitz

Now Britain Is All Alone!Now Britain Is All Alone!

North Africa

Operation Barbarossa:Hitler’s Biggest MistakeOperation Barbarossa:

Hitler’s Biggest Mistake

Operation Barbarossa: June 22, 1941

Operation Barbarossa: June 22, 1941

3,000,000 German 3,000,000 German soldiers.soldiers. 3,400 tanks.3,400 tanks.

Great Britain.........................$31 billionSoviet Union...........................$11 billionFrance......................................$ 3 billionChina.......................................$1.5 billionOther European.................$500 millionSouth America...................$400 million

The amount totaled: $48,601,365,000

Great Britain.........................$31 billionSoviet Union...........................$11 billionFrance......................................$ 3 billionChina.......................................$1.5 billionOther European.................$500 millionSouth America...................$400 million

The amount totaled: $48,601,365,000

U. S. Lend-Lease Act,1941

U. S. Lend-Lease Act,1941

Pearl Harbor

The U.S. Declares War

FDR signs the declaration of war against Japan

Battle of Stalingrad:Winter of 1941-1943

Battle of Stalingrad:Winter of 1941-1943

German Army Russian Army1,011,500 men 1,000,500 men

10,290 artillery guns

13,541 artillery guns

675 tanks 894 tanks

1,216 planes 1,115 planes

The North Africa Campaign:

The Battle of El Alamein, 1942

The North Africa Campaign:

The Battle of El Alamein, 1942 Gen. Ernst

Rommel,The “Desert Fox”

Gen. Ernst Rommel,

The “Desert Fox”

Gen. Bernard Law

Montgomery(“Monty”)

Gen. Bernard Law

Montgomery(“Monty”)

““Operation Torch”Operation Torch”

The Italian Campaign [“Operation Torch”]

The Italian Campaign [“Operation Torch”]

Allies plan Allies plan assault on assault on weakest Axis weakest Axis area - North area - North Africa - Nov. Africa - Nov. 1942-May 1942-May 19431943

George S. George S. PattonPatton leads leads American American troopstroops

Germans Germans trapped in trapped in Tunisia - Tunisia - surrender surrender over 275,000 over 275,000 troops.troops.

The Allies Liberate Rome:June 4, 1944

The Allies Liberate Rome:June 4, 1944

Gen. Eisenhower Gives the Orders for D-Day [“Operation

Overlord”]

Gen. Eisenhower Gives the Orders for D-Day [“Operation

Overlord”]

D-Day (D-Day (June 6, 1944) 6, 1944)

D-Day (June 6, 1944)D-Day (June 6, 1944)

Normandy Landing

(June 6, 1944)

Normandy Landing

(June 6, 1944)

Higgins Landing Higgins Landing CraftsCrafts

German German PrisonersPrisoners

July 20, 1944 Assassination Plot

July 20, 1944 Assassination Plot

Major Claus Major Claus vonvon

StauffenbergStauffenberg