Go onto YouTube and look up ‘A German soldier who took part in Operation Barbarossa’.
the freezing winter of 1942–43. Eventually, over 100,000 German soldiers were forced to surrender in February 1943. The German defeat at the Battle of Stalingrad was another major turning point in the war.
America joined the war Events in the Far East caused the United States to join the war. Japan wanted to create its own empire and relations between America and Japan worsened in the 1930s. In December 1941, Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, where the American Pacific fleet was based. Fortunately, for America, the main part of the fleet was at sea when the attack occurred. Soon after Hitler declared war on America as part of an agreement with Japan. The US entry into the war was another major turning point.
US President Roosevelt
Damage at Pearl Harbor
The war at sea: The Battle of the Atlantic Even before America entered the war, the country provided supplies of food, military goods and industrial products to Britain. In the words of the American President, Roosevelt, America became the ‘arsenal of democracy’. All the supplies came to Britain across the Atlantic Ocean, so Germany used its submarines (U-boats) to sink Allied shipping. Fleets of U-boats, called wolfpacks, left the French and Norwegian coasts and raided Allied convoys crossing the sea. In 1942, U-boats sank 6 million tons of shipping, and thousands of sailors lost their lives.
