Name: ______________________
Block ______________
Date: ________________
Unit 10: World War II
Topic 3: Battles & Strategies
I.
Sides and Strategies
The _____________
The ___________ Powers
Britain, _______________________, & the
United States
Allied Strategies
Germany, Italy, & Japan - All
___________________ regimes
Axis Strategies
The Allies’ Strategy in Europe ____________________________ - Most of
the resources were put into Europe.
Germany’s Strategy: Defeat the USSR
____________and defeat Britain using
_________ and __________before the US can
enter the war. (Germany easily beat France in
1939)
The US Strategy in the Pacific - ________
_____________- Attacking islands close to
Japan and jumping over fortified islands and
cutting off their supply lines.
Japan’s Strategy
After Pearl Harbor Japan hopes to _________
Southeast Asia and the Pacific ________
How does geography affect war strategies for the Allies?
For the Axis Powers?
II.__________________________: Battles
A. ____________________________ - Germany was poised to take Egypt and the
_____________________which would have given them access to the
_____________________ in the ________________and even attack the USSR from the
South, but the British defeated them in a desert battle at El Alamein.
B. _______________________August 1942 – February 1943. Germany wanted to seize
Russian ____________________and capture Stalingrad. They are stopped by the brutal
_____________. German troops surrender to the Soviet Union due to _______________
and cold. It was the turning point in the ____________ __________.
C. ________________________(June 1942) Japan targeted _____________ Island to get
the whole US fleet in one place and destroy them. The smaller US fleet attacked Japanese
___________________ and was successful. Turning point of the war in the __________.
D. ________________France (__-______ June 6th 1944) - The Allies land in German
occupied France. There are heavy causalities for the US and its Allies, but the
________________ of ___________________________ begins.
E. ____________ & _______________(1945) - Though the __________ ____________
victories are costly, American troops get closer to Japan – The Japanese soldiers fight
heroically and many commit suicide rather than surrender
F. The ______________________ on ______________ & ______________(1945) President Truman is told that an invasion of Japan might cost a million lives. Dropping the
atomic bomb would be the ____________________________________. Dropped on 2
Japanese cities: Hiroshima & Nagasaki. About 140,000 Japanese civilians are killed in the
blasts. More die from ______________ later. Japanese leaders __________________ to
the US.
The US was right to drop the Atomic Bomb
What do you think?
The US was wrong to drop the Atomic Bomb