Invasion of Italy and Africa-Zach
Operation Sludge Hammer
thought the war in Africa would end in disaster
in Africa it was usialy Tank Warfare
first time we fought agianst Germany
we fought the Desert Fox-Erwin Rommel
George Patton-Gereral fought agianst the Desert fox
^^^^^^^^^^^- Made a movie about him
Operation Torch
The British-American invasion of French North Africa started on November 8, 1942
By mid 1943, we had defeated the Germans, Italians and the Vichy France
Italys Mountans
Appenine Mts.- runs right through the middle
Tuskegee Institute- African American bombers in WWII
George C. Marshall- Cheif of staff on the US Millitary during WWII, Only one person was his boss and that was the preisedent
Dwight Eisenhower- Dirk a famous general and he was the leaded of the Battle Of the Buldge was the boss of the US army and British and Canadan is know as one of the best generals in WWII and later became the Preisede
Gereral Douglas Mcarther- teh us general agianst japan
Nemitts- fivestar general was with the navy, he was the head of the navy he wanted to go into the army he tried to apply but they didnt have any openings so they asked him if he wanted to go to the navy and he said yes and he eventully became the leader of the navy
Omar Bradly- worked with pattion and would later be involved with the D-Day Invasion
June 6, 1944- THE BEGINING OF THE END FOR GERMANY THE BIGEST DAY IN WWII
Battle Of The Buldge- dec. 16, 1944- Hitler's last attempt to break down the front lines, 3 part plan send 6 henzer army, tanks, 600,000 American troops and 100,000 german's were killed his plan was to get through and weaken us Hitlers last Offensive attack, we didnt think that they had that much man power but in the end we won. his idea was to drive the allies to the sea and cause us to break down and make a plan to end the war so that Hitler would have one- 5 months away for the war, very cold and snowy winter 19,000 americans were killed more than on D-day battle of the buldge had the most losses in the whole war WWII
FDR dies and Trueman takes over-Dies from cerebral Hemerege/stroke he was in charge of dropin the Atomic Bomb when he became preisedent he didnt know anythin about the atomic bomb so his generals had to breif him about it by the time he left office he he was one of the most unpopular preisedents in American History
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