Turning point 1943
Russia 1942
Stalingrad 42-43
End of the War on the Eastern Front
Operation Husky: Invasion of Italy
D-Day "The Longest Day"
- The Russian counterattack fizzled outside of Moscow, but protected the city
- The Germans regroup and attack to the north (Leningrad) and south (Stalingrad)
Stalingrad 42-43
- Germans want the oil fields of the Caucasus region
- Begin Sept. 1, 1942
- Germans capture much of the city in street to street fighting
- Nov. 23, 1942 Germans get trapped in the city
- German Commander Von Poulus ordered to fight to the death
- Between Jan. 31 and Feb. 2, 300,000 German troops surrender
End of the War on the Eastern Front
- From Stalingrad onward the Germans were on the defensive
- Russians advance all the way to Berlin
- Largest tank battle in history 5-15 July 1943 at Kursk
- Jan. 27, 1944 Siege of Leningrad broken
- 16 April Berlin offensive begins
Operation Husky: Invasion of Italy
- 1942 El Alamein won by British cutting Germans off from Middle East oil
- 1943 Germans finally defeated in North Africa
- 9 July 1943 Allies land in Sicily
- Italians deposed Mussolini during the Sicily invasion and removed the Fascist government
- Hitler moved the Germans in to take over the country and rescued Mussolini by plane to Germany
- 9 Sept. 1943 Allies land at Salerno on the Italian mainland
- 4 June 1944 to get to Rome
- Fighting continued until 2 May 1945
- Mussolini hung with his mistress near Milan in April 1945
D-Day "The Longest Day"
- Allies open a second front in France against the Germans
- Land on five beaches named Utah and Omaha (American) Juno (Canadian) Sword and Gold (British and Polish)
- Rommel felt that whoever won the beaches that day would win the war
- Operation Overlord
"The siege of September 13, 1942 to January 31, 1943 will inspire forever the hearts of all free people. Their glorious victory stemmed the tide of invasion and marked the turning point in the war of the Allied nations against the forces of aggression."
- Franklin D Roosevelt, congratulating Joseph Stalin on the soviet Victory at Stalingrad, 1944
- Franklin D Roosevelt, congratulating Joseph Stalin on the soviet Victory at Stalingrad, 1944