13. Battle in Africa and Italy-april foolsssss.... how i hate april foolz. erwin rommel-the desert fox. the best german general in wwii. very very clever... liek a fox. he was eventually killed by nazis. he tried to kill hitler. george patton-famous american general. ivory pistol. monty-british. both wanted fox. patton thought that there is not such thing as being unable to fight. died in car crash in germany after wwII. operation torch-british-amerian invasion of french north africa started on nov 8, 1942. 8 months after we had defeated the germans, italians and the vichy france. then turned to italy, we took sicily malta that would serve as base for attacks on italy. appenine mts.-surrendered rather fast, didn't like mussolini anymore. they became our allies but we had to clear out german forces first. tuskegee institute-trained blacks to bomb raid. bombed italy and german.14. US Generals-Marshall, Eisenhower, Patton, MacArthur, Nimitz, Bradley- marshal-chief of staff of us military during wwII. eisenhower was supreme allied comander.15. D-Day-Operation Overlord-supreme allied comander-dwight eisenhower. june 6, 1944. last full moons. D-Day is the day of days. allied invasion of nazi cotrolled france. the assault was conducted in two phases. 1. airborne assault landing of 24,000 british. american, canadian, and free french airborne troops shortly after midnight. 2-an amphibious landing of allied infantry and armored divisions on the coast of france startingat 6'30. there were also decoy operations to distract the german forces from the real landing areas. the operation was the largest amphibious invasion in world history with over 160,000 troops. roughly 10,000 allied causalties. 6,600 us. the atlantic wall-an extensive system of caostal fortifications built by nazi germany between 42 and 44 along the west coast of europe. large string of machine guns.16. Battle of the Bulge-winter of 44-45. six months before end. were are at the doorstep of germany. plan was to push our forces back to the sea and he could swoop into france. over a million men, 500,000 germans 600,000 americans, and 55,000 brit. malmedy massacre. 86 american soldiers were murdered was the worst atrocity committed on american troops. lost more troops than d-day. it did nothing but kill people.hitlers suicide17. FDR Dies-Truman takes over18. VE Day19. Battle in the Pacific-Island Hopping, Philippines, Coral Sea, Midway, Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima, Okinawa,20. Navajo Code Talkers21. Doolittle's Raid22. Manhattan Project23. Hiroshima bombing24. Nagasaki bombing25. VJ Day26. Yalta Conference27. Nuremburg Trials28. Japanese Internment Camps in US
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