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US in the European Theater
Pearl Harbor
· ______________________________________________
· “A date that shall live in ____________________________”
· Empire of Japan Attacked the US Navy trying _______________________________________________
· In little more than _________________________ Japanese military destroyed or damaged
· ____ American war ships
· Damaged or destroyed __________military aircraft
· ____________ Americans died and ______________ wounded
· ___________________our Pacific Fleet
United States and the European Theater - WWII Heroes and Horrors
The Big 3
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· FDR
· United States
· Winston Churchill
· Great Britain
· Josef Stalin
· Soviet Union
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· Alliance between two ___________________________ and one __________________________ leader
· Uneasy alliance
· Meet several times
· ________________and __________________ become friends
· Unconditional surrender
Allied Forces
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· United States of America
· Britain
· Australia
· France
· USSR/ Russia/ Soviet Union
· Plus several others
· Total __________ Nations
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Plan of Attack
· ________________________________________________________________________
· Military Plan
· _________________________________ on Germany and Italy
· _________________________ on Germany
· Peripheral strikes in the _________________________
· Direct ____________________ on ____________________________
Stalingrad
· Might be the _______________________________________________________
· ______________________________ for the Germans on land
· Destroys the German ___________________________
· Germany is in retreat from the east until the reach Berlin
· Stalin is angered because Allies did not help and the Russian took the brunt of this attack
· Lasts __________________________________________________________
Operation Torch
· ___________________________________________________________________
· Brits had been there since _________________
· _____________________________ leader
· Turning point of the war
· First Front
Operation Overlord
· ___________________________________________
· ________________________ stormed _____ beachheads at Normandy coast
· 800,000 more men within 3 weeks; 3 million
· Causalities: 2,245 Allies killed 1,670 wounded
· Significance
· Established a strong _____________________ ( Russia VERY happy)
· August 1st 1944 Allies enter into Paris
· End of the summer
· _______________________________________________
Battle of the Bulge
· _________________________________
· Germans last _________________________
· Move against US positions
· _________________________________
· 101st Airborne Div.
· ____________________________ US Troops killed
· Stopped Hitler’s Last gasp counter offensive
Victory over Europe
· January advancing toward Germany
· Attack ______________________ with fire bombs killing __________________________ and destroying factories and rail lines
· April 1945
· US approached Berlin form the west while Soviets come from the East
· Italian resistance collapsing
· Mussolini caught by Italian resistance and killed
· Hitler goes into a _______________________________________
· Germany surrenders _______________________________________________
Movies On (Europe) WWII
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· Band Of Brothers
· Saving Private Ryan
· Fury
· We were soldiers
· The Monuments Men
· King’s Speech
· Valkyrie
· The Pianist
· Red Tails
· Saints and Soldiers
· The Imitation Game
· Enemy at the Gates
· The Great Escape