HIS109Y1 Lecture Notes - Crimea, Yalta Conference, Atlantic Charter
Document Summary
1942-43: german forces tried to concentrate on the south of the soviet union, on the oil fields. German tanks in june 1942 began to push to the south, soviets held ground. Hitler"s generals wanted to bypass stalingrad, hitler overruled them. Feb. 1943: german army was frozen, malnourished, & they surrendered. Soviet troops were able to advance by the end of the winter (stalingrad was the farthest the. Germans were able to get into the soviet union) Italians & germans in north africa forced to surrender to first great allied victory in early 1943. British & americans could use north africa as a springboard to attack italy. Began to lose so much domestic support as britain & the us invaded italy that the king of italy dismissed him as prime minister (though he didn"t really have the power to do this) New gov"t came in that signed a treaty w/ the allies in sept. 1943 (a surrender)
