World War 2 was intensifying in multiple regions in 1942. As Germany and Italy increased attacks in North Africa, President Roosevelt sought to determine where American troops should engage next. The British were still defending against potential Nazi invasion and relied on the Suez Canal, which Germany aimed to take over to cut off Britain's access to Asia. American troops began fighting in North Africa against German forces. Meanwhile, Soviet leader Stalin was trapping German troops between Soviet and Allied forces, culminating in the Battle of Stalingrad where over 1 million Soviet troops encircled and captured a German army of 25,000 soldiers.

1. World war II
Chapter 11
By
Martha Galindo

2. Where to begin? That was the big question president Roosevelt was
tackling in the summer 1942.

3. North Africa was seeing more and more attacks
from Germany and Italy

4. The British were still living under
the threat of Nazi invitation. Japan attacked the United States

5. Suez canal
German take over Suez
Canal
This small canal was a
Britain’s gateway to India
and the rest of Asia
British depended on
traveled through the Suez
Canal

6. American troops begins the war against the German in
North Africa
Joseph Stalin was the second Churchill was Britain’s strongest
leader of the Soviet Union. leaders

7. German troops were trapped between the British and
Americans November 1942
General Erwin Rommel German Americans leader Dwight d.
troops Eisenhower

8. Late1942, Hitler began closing himself off in his own
little world of self importance and dreams.

9. THE BATTLE OF STALING WAS TERRIBLE
• German troops began
to running out of food
and supplies just as
another brutal soviet
winter was
approaching.
• About 40,000 soviets
were killed in this first
phase of the attack

10. SOVIETS BEGAN TO LAY
THE TRAP
Chuikov orders a
steady stream of
soldiers and supples.
Chuikov had more
than one million
troops.
He positional all this
war power to encircle
an entire German
army.

11. THE BEAR TRAP
General Paulus had
become a nervous
wreck even before
his troops were
caught.
Paulus receive the
news that’s his
25,000 soldiers were
hopelessly
surrounded by more
million soviets.