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In its strategy and scope-and its enormous stakes for the future of the free world-historians regard it among the greatest military achievements ever.ĭ-Day, code-named Operation Overlord, launched on June 6, 1944, after the commanding Allied general, Dwight D. Your browser does not support the audio element.The D-Day military invasion that helped to end World War II was one the most ambitious and consequential military campaigns in human history.

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The war in the Eastern Front was called the Great Patriotic War by the people in the Soviet Union.

At one point he was in charge of over 5 million soldiers.

Eisenhower was Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe. Around 200,000 US soldiers lost their lives in battle in World War II in Europe.Adolf Hitler committed suicide in a bunker on Apwhen he realized that Germany would lose the war.After World War II, Germany was split in half the western half was controlled by the Western Allies and the eastern half by the Soviet Union.May 8th is called V-E day or 'Victory in Europe' day. The next day the Allies celebrated victory. On Germany surrendered to the Western Allies. Hundreds of thousands of US troops held the Germans back and the German army was finally defeated. Germany then counterattacked and a great battle, called the Battle of the Bulge, was fought. The Allies defeated the Germans and pushed them out of France. This day is often called D-Day or the Invasion of Normandy. On Jthe Allies attacked the Germans on the Western Front. At the same time, the Russians defeated the German army on the Eastern Front and started to push them back towards Germany. The Allies also took control of northern Africa and then launched an attack on Italy forcing southern Italy to surrender. The British Air Force began to bomb Germany, taking the war to German soil. Western Front (France and Great Britain)Ĭelebration when Paris was liberated from Germany.Germany's army was stretched thin and was fighting on three fronts: They had tried to take over Great Britain in 1940 with the Battle of Britain, but failed. The US became a major power within the Allies Alliance.īy 1941 Germany had control over much of mainland Europe. However, on DecemJapan attacked the US at Pearl Harbor. They tried to help out the Allies, but did not want to enter the fighting. The United States had stayed neutral during the war. Now the Soviet Union was on the side of the Allies. However, on JGermany invaded the Soviet Union. Up until this point in the war, the Soviet Union had been allied with Germany. On JGermany signed an agreement that gave them control of the Northern half of France. Soon after that, they invaded the Netherlands, Belgium, and France. It was in April of 1940 when Germany went on the attack again. Even though France and Great Britain declared war on Germany in 1939, there wasn't a lot of fighting at first.

After Poland was defeated, the country was divided up between Germany and the Soviet Union.

Prior to invading Poland, Germany had made a deal with the Soviet Union. France and Great Britain declared war on Germany and World War II had begun. Finally, when Germany invaded Poland in 1939, the other countries knew he would not stop. The other European countries didn't want war, so they didn't do anything. First Hitler took over the country of Austria. Hitler said the country needed more land or 'living space'. Hitler was elected Chancellor of Germany in 1933. Hitler promised he would bring Germany back to power. It was during this time that Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party came into power. The citizens of Germany were not only humiliated that they had lost World War I, but they were also poor and struggling. As a result, the German economy did very poorly. This treaty not only took land from Germany, but required that they pay huge amounts of money in reparations to countries they had fought. When Germany lost World War I they were forced to sign the Treaty of Versailles.

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