African Front
Stalin wanted us to openly invade Europe to get the Germans out of Soviet Union but we went to North Africa instead. Stalin wasn't very happy. There was a lot of Vichy French troops in North Africa and they were on the Axis side. They slowly came over to the Allied powers, and Hitler was very mad about this.
Rommel- main Germany general, Montgomery- main British general, Patton Jr.- main U.S. general.
Rommel died from like a forced suiced and Patton died in a car crash, both deaths aren't really what you'd imagine with such great generals.
Tanks and planes became big in desert warfare, there wasn't really any place for them to hid though, but tanks could just go right through the flat land.
Italian Front
Italian front had more deaths and wounded by the infantry.
Continental Italy- Sep 3-9 Operation Baytown, Avalanche, and Slapstick happened. Sicily- largest island in Maditerranean sea, first place attacked. The Apinin Mountains created a struggle for the Allied powers, but they started invading in Sicily then moved all the way up. More people died in this then any other.
D-Day & European Front
D-Day was the alled invasion of Nazi Europe, largest amphibious military invasion in history. There was a lot of ground and naval forces. June 6th, 1944 D- Day (Operation Over Lord). GB, France, America, and Canada are the countries that invaded France's coast. It was a sucess because June 4-5 were stormy so Hitler let some of his troops leave. Allies had strong forces, and we led the Axis powers to believe that we were going to attack further north. Dwight D. Eisenhower was the overall supreme commander of the invasion forces. Marshal Bernard Montgomery was the commander of the fround forces on d- day. General Patton was in command of the "1st army group" which only was used to confuse the Axis powers.
Liberation of Paris, 19 August until the 25th, This battle marked the end of Operation Over Lord(D- day). The German general that was having control of France surrendered.After D-Day U.S. and other allied powers ended up pushing back German forces, fighting many battles and we usually won them. Germany was running out of resources and Hitler was basically going crazy and making bad choices.
Battle of the Bulge, happened in the Ardennes Mountains, over 19,000 Americans died. Battle of the Bulge called Operation Watch on the Rhine.
Decided that Soviets can move into Berlin which set the stage for the Cold War. Germany was split up to America, France, GB, and Soviet Union, Berlin was also split up between the four countries.
Pacific Front
Mainly between U.S. and Japan after the attacks on Britain Mylasia and Peral Harbor. Japan needed resources for their own war but U.S. wasn't giving them any, they looked for them in the many island nations in the Pacific. Japan attacked Hong Kong and the Phillipines also.MacArthur, US general, knew there was going to be an attack on the Phillipines but decided not to do anything. When the attack happened US troops were over whelmed and they were forced to leave. Midway unsuccessful for Japanese they were turned back. Considered the turning point of the war. Coral Sea was before Midway Japan didn't win but technically we didn't either but since Japan didn't win we did.
Last mjaor offensive of the war? Okinawa
Okinawa was key to communication for Japan.
Mediterranean Front
Malta is a very small island that Axis and Allied fought over a lot Allied won.
Breann Lehr
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