Battle of Moscow

November 15, 1941 January 20,1942

Germans reached Moscow with the largest tank army in
history
Russian stopped them
Temperature dropped to 31 degrees below 0
Russian leader: General Georgy Zhukov
German leader: Paulus
Germans lost 500, 000 men, 1, 500 tanks, 2, 500 guns,
and 15, 000 trucksmany of them immobilized by the
cold.

The North Africa Campaign:

Erwin RommelThe Battle ofGen.
El Alamein,
1942

German commander in
North Africa
The Desert Fox

Gen. Bernard Law

Montgomery
(Monty)
British
commander in
North Africa

The Battle of El Alamein

June-July 1942 October 23November
6, 1942
Drove the Germans back into Libya
1st time the Germans were defeated in
North Africa

The Battle of
El Alamein, 1942
British victory in
North Africa

Supreme Allied
Commander
Dwight (Ike) Eisenhower
U.S.

The Italian Campaign

Operation Torch
Europes Soft Underbelly

Purpose was to

create another front

for the Germans to
defend
Allies plan assault on
weakest Axis area North Africa Nov.8 1942-May
1943
General George S.
Patton leads
American troops
Germans trapped in
Tunisia - surrender
over 275,000 troops.

The Battle for Sicily:

June, 1943

General
George S. Patton

Generals Patton and

Montgomery (Monty) race
for Messina

Gen. Eisenhower Gives the Orders

for D-Day [Operation Overlord]

Operation Overlord
Plan to invade France, and create a
2nd European front for Germany in
Europe
D-Day began this operation

D-Day (June 6, 1944)

General Omar Bradley(US) Led the DDay

invasion

D-Day
The largest amphibious attack in history

Normandy Landing
(June 6, 1944)

Higgins Landing Crafts

July 20, 1944 Assassination Plot

Major Claus von

Stauffenberg

Valkarie

July 20, 1944 Assassination Plot

1. Adolf Hitler
2. Field Marshall Wilhelm Keitel
3. Gen Alfred von Jodl
4. Gen Walter Warlimont
5. Franz von Sonnleithner
6. Maj Herbert Buchs
7. Stenographer Heinz Buchholz
8. Lt Gen Hermann Fegelein
9. Col Nikolaus von Below
10. Rear Adm Hans-Erich Voss
11. Otto Gunsche, Hitler's adjutant
12. Gen Walter Scherff (injured)
13. Gen Ernst John von Freyend
14. Capt Heinz Assman (injured)

The Battle of the Bulge:

Hitlers Last Offensive

Dec. 16, 1944

to
Jan. 28, 1945