Chapter 12 Section 4 Notes

Main Idea- Allied powers grow more determined as they plan to attack Italy, France, Japan, and the Philippines.

Casablanca Conference-
U.S. and Great Britain meeting
- plan to destroy entire Germany
- attack on Italy

Strategic Bombing-
- German losses
- railroad
- oil shortage
- significantly weakened air force

- Dwight D Eisenhower
- leads Allied invasion of Sicily
- Allied victory

- DUKW- hauls supplies to Allied troops

- Cassino- Germans bombard Italian city
- Anzio- Allies go around German forces

- Tehran- "Big Three" meet
- plan German attack/break-up, Japan attack, world peace

- Overlord- Allied planned attack on France

-Pas de Calais- Allies trick Germans during invasion of France, attack on Normandy instead

-D-Day- Conditions were supposed to be ideal for France invasion

-Omaha Beach- Turning point, Allies eventually rise to the top against Germans

-Plan in the Pacific- Island-hopping and Philippines attack

 

-Island Hopping- Planned way to force Japan to surrender

 

-Tarawa- Unsuccessful island invasion. Boats sink, many die in battle/in water

 

-LVT- Armed boat, carried some U.S. soldiers to Tarawa, more successful in Marshall Islands

 

-Guadalcanal- First American invasion of southwest Pacific. Afterwards, U.S. victories until Leyte Gulf

 

-Leyte Gulf- Americans attack Eastern Philippines. Japan surrounds other areas of the island, causing American losses

 

-Kamikaze- Japanese used this severe method of killing to inflict damage on U.S. Navy