World War II



World War II

The Allied Victory 1943 - 45

Beating the Nazis

The battle of _________________ proved to be the turning point of the war between Russia and Germany. Russia’s cold __________ and superior ______________ stalled the German advance and allowed them to surround and capture many of the invaders, who began their long retreat back to Germany.

Victory in Africa & Italy

Lacking men and supplies, Erwin Rommel’s Afrika Korps were finally driven out of Africa by the Allies. The decisive battle was led by British General Montgomery at _________.

The Allies then crossed the Mediterranean and invaded ______. Rome was ______________ in 1944 and the Italians switched sides against the Nazis. Fleeing for his life, ______________ was caught and killed by Italians partisans.

Crushing Nazi Germany

The US, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union were the main Allied forces and formed the ________________________. All three nations agreed to fight until Germany and Japan surrendered _______________.

The Allied liberation of Europe began with the invasion of ________________ on June 6th 1944. D-Day was the greatest amphibious landing in history, and forced Hitler to fight a ___________ war.

Shortly after D-Day the Americans liberated ________, which had suffered four years of Nazi oppression. After freeing France, the Allies encountered fierce Nazi resistance on the way to ___________.

The US air force ___________ German cities by day while the British bombed them by night. The constant bombing crippled German war __________, and broke the Germans’ will to fight.

After their victory at Stalingrad, the Russians went on the ________________ and slowly advanced over the next two years. In the spring of 1945 Soviet troops reached ________ from the east as American troops arrived from the west.

Hitler and his wife committed ____________ in their Berlin bunker as the Allies closed in. On May 8th, 1945, Germany surrendered, and the European war was over.

Crushing Japan

After the battle of __________ the US took the offensive against Japan. US forces waged an “___________________________” campaign with the goal of recapturing Japanese-held islands that would serve as stepping stones to the Japanese mainland.

______ bases were built on captured islands from which US bombers could hit Japan. Territory was gained after bloody battles such as Coral Sea, Guadalcanal, Tarawa ___________, and Okinawa.

To end the war, the US dropped atomic bombs on ____________ and ______________. Japan surrendered soon after and WWII was over.

World War II resulted in a total death toll of approximately _____________, the most deaths in the history of warfare.

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