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U.S. and Britain Join Forces
Two days after Pearl Harbor, Churchill confronted Roosevelt about joining the two nations together. Roosevelt gave an invitation to Churchill to come as soon as possible. The great alliance began then. -
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War Plans
Churchill arrived at the White House on December 22, 1941. They conversed war plans over the next three weeks. Churchill convinced Roosevelt that Germany and Italy were greater threats than Japan and talked him into attacking in Europe. -
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The Battle of the Atlantic
Hitler set up German submarine raids against America's east coast. His goal was to keep food and war materials from reaching Great Britain and U.S.S.R.. Germans sank 87 American ships within the first four months of 1942. Within the first seven months of the same year, Germany destroyed a total of 681 Allied ships in the Atlantic. In the middle of 1943, the Battle of the Atlantic had finally turned. -
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Battle of Stalingrad
In August of 1942, the German army invaded Stalingrad. German soldiers attacked house-by-house until they controlled ninety percent of the city. When winter settled in the Soviet troops saw an opportunity to counter attack the Germans. The Soviets cut off German supply lines and let them freeze to death. On January 31,1943, the German commander finally surrendered to the Soviets. -
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The North African Front
In November of 1943, 107,000 troops arrived in Casablanca, Oran, and Algiers in North Africa. After landing there, troops moved east, chasing Afrika Corps led by General Erwin Rommel, the Desert Fox. After fighting for months, the Afrika Corps surrendered in May of 1943 -
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Italian Campaign
The Italian Campaign started off the capture of Sicily. After the fall of Sicily, the Italian government force Mussolini to resign. Hitler wanted to stop Britain and America on Italian soil rather than German. The battle that took place was named "Bloody Anzio." This battle lasted four months until May of 1944. -
D-Day
After midnight three divisions parchuted down behind German lines. During the morning thousands of seaborne soldiers followed them. D-Day is the largest land-sea-air operation in army history. -
Liberation of Death Camps
On their way to Berlin, Soviet troops were the first to reach on the the Nazi death camps. German SS officers at the death camp, Majdanek, despose of the evidence of all the murders that had taken place. Upon entering the death camp, Soviet troops found a thousand starving prisoners close to death, the worlds's largest creamatorium, and a storehouse of 800,000 shoes. Soviet troops were horrified and later so were the Americans. -
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Battle of the Bulge
In October of 1944, Americans captured their first German city, Aachan. On December 16, 1944, eight German tank divisions broke through American lines along an 80 mile front, under dense fog. German soldiers captured 120 American GIs Malemedy. German SS officers took the prisoners into a large field and killed them using machine guns and pistols. Germans were later pushed back and no choice but to retreat. The Battle of the Bulge lasted for one month. -
Roosevelt's Death
While posing for a portrait in Warm Springs, Georgia, Roosevelt had a stroke and passed away. That night, Harry S. Truman became our nations 33rd president. -
Unconditional Surrender
Hitler new the end was near. On April 25, 1945, he married Eva Braun. During the same day, Hitler wrote his last address to the German people. The next day both, Hitler and Eva, committed suiciede. Adolf shot himself with a pistol, and Eva swallowed poison. After their deaths, their bodies were carried outside, doused with gasoline, and burned.
