The Allies Turn the Tide

CHAPTER 29 SECTION 3
 Look ahead

 Understand how nations devoted all of their resources to

fighting World War II

 Explain how Allied victories began to push back Axis

powers

 Describe D-Day and the Allied advance toward Germany

Total War
To devote all resources to war effort

Allies realized they needed to commit to total war to defeat Axis

Powers

How did the Allies manage to do this?

 Total War

Government increase power

Cars and refrigerators to planes and tanks

Rationing
Control of how much food and goods one could buy

War Bonds
Lend government money with promise of return with interest

Wages were regulated

Rationing
 Japanese Citizens

Lost jobs, property, civil rights

Internment Camps
 Japanese citizens put in camps

Reparations
 Reparations were paid
 ………. 40 years later
Women in the War

Replaced men in war industry jobs

“Rosie the Riveter”

Also served in the military

Driving ambulances, delivering airplanes, decoding messages

Occupied Europe

Marie Fourcade

Lily Litvak
 Allies Forge Ahead

1942 and 1943- Turning point in the war

Battle of the Coral Sea- May 1942

Enemies could not see each other

Fought by planes launched from Aircraft Carriers

Aircraft Carrier- Ships that transport aircraft and accommodate

the take-off and landing of airplanes

Kept Japanese from seizing important islands

Battle of the Coral Sea
 Allies Forge Ahead

Battle of Midway – June 1942

Fought entirely by air

American Navy destroyed 4 Japanese carriers and over 250

Japanese planes

After- Japan unable to launch offensive operations

 Big 3

FDR, Churchill, Stalin

1942 agreed to focusing the finish of war in Europe

Although Big 3 were Allies- great distrust

1943 Conference in Tehran, Iran

Stalin wanted another allied front- idea was rejected at the time.
Big 3
 North Africa

Battle of El Alemein November 1942

Allies halted Desert Fox’s advance west and drove them back
General Dwight D. Eisenhower

Advanced on Tunisia from west, Allies trapped Rommel’s army

Rommel Surrendered 1943

North Africa
 Italy

Mediterranean open to Allies which now controlled

Africa

Could attack Italy from the South

July 1943 combined Am/Brit forces landed first in

Sicily and then Southern Italy

Mussolini overthrown, Italy signs armistice

Hitler sent troops in to rescue Mussolini

18 months slow push up Italian peninsula

 Soviet Union

Battle of Stalingrad 1942

Hitler advances deep into oil rich Soviet Union

Winter Fight

Fought street by street/ house by house

In November of 1942 Soviets surrounded Germans

Trapped without food or ammunition

Germans surrendered in Stalingrad January 1943

 Push into Germany

After Stalingrad- Soviets started marching West

Allies open second front in Europe

D-Day June 6th 1944

Attack on beaches of Normandy France
 D-Day

Just before midnight on June 5th, paratroopers drop

behind enemy lines

 1000’s of ships transported 156,000 allies across English

Channel

 Fought their way amid underwater mines and raging

machine guns
D-Day Invasion
 Continuing the Advance

German forces being closed in on in Europe

Allies entered Paris in August

Free within a month

By this time, Germany was under constant

bombing
 Cripple Germanys industries and weaken morale of civilians
Battle of the Bulge December 1944
German counter attack
Lasted more than a month
Both sides took heavy losses, Germany was unable to break
through
 Yalta Conference

 February of 1945 Big 3 met at Yalta in southern Soviet

Union

 Stalin insisted he needed control of Eastern Europe for

protection

 FDR and Church favored self-determination for Eastern Europe

 Self-determination- right to choose own government

 3 agreed to temporally divide Germany into four parts governed by

 US, GB, SU, and France