North Africa Campaign-
- In North Africa. June 1940-May 1943
- In Libyan, and Egyptian desserts
- fought between Allies and Axis,
- area was in conflict cause of colonial issues from 1800's
- U.S. began direct military assistance in May, 1942
- Operation Torch- We invaded Northern Africa in Morocco and northern Nigeria against French and Germans
- Erwin Rommel-The desert Fox-German General- very sneeky, was put to death by Germany because he was thought to be trying to assasinate hitler
- Bernard Montgomery- Britain General- was trying to take down Rommal
- General Patton- U.S. General
- Dwight Eisenhower- President of U.S. for 8 years during WWII
Casablanca Conference
- January, 1942
- U.S. and Britain decided where to invade- U.S. said France
- Britain said not to invade Italy 1st
- "unconditional Surrender
Victory in Africa allowed us to invaded italy or France
invasion of italy- hard but no that bad, after we invaded they actually started fighting for us,
Operation Avalanche- invasion of Italy 1943-hard but no that bad, after we invaded they actually started fighting for us, not all of them though, Italy is mountains and was hard to fight on- Apennines Mountains
Tuskegee Institute-Airman- U.S. airmen that did very well invading Italy
D-Day-June 6, 1944
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