US, Europe and China was Grand Alliance against axis powers (Germany, Italy, Japan), Britian, US, and Russia made sure first priority was to defeat germany, 1943 allies decided to fight axis until they surrendered (unconditional surrender), hitler sent General Erwin Rommel w German Afrika Korps to Libya in February 1941, attacked on March 30 in of May reached Egyptian frontier but halted, Reinforcements in North Africa in 1942 let them get into British defenses in Egypt, capture Tobruk in June, and move to alexandria, summer 1942 british forced stopped Rommel’s troops at El Alamein and made them retreat, November 1942, British and American invaded French North Africa and made germans/italians surrender on May 1943, hitler wanted to capture Stalingrad (major industrial center on Volga) and fought russians, had street-by-street conflict during September, October, and November, November 8 hitler said they got Stalingrad but November 19 and 20 russians attacked them and November 23 germans surrounded, February 2, 1943 germans surrendered + forced into provisions of June 1942, (AMERICA AND JAPAN) May 7–8, 1942 battle of coral sea stopped japanses advance + protecc austrailia, June 4 Battle of Midway destroyed all japoanese aircraft carriers + new naval, fall of 1942 allies had offensive operations in Burma, India, Solomon Islands and New Guinea, Douglas MacArthur moving toward the Philippines, August to November 1942 no more luck for japanese