Continued with the questions from yesterday.
13. Battle in Africa and Italy: Took place in North Africa from June 10th, 1940 through May of 1943. These campaigns fought between the Allies and the Axis powers. Both powers wanted the Middle Eastern resources and just the area of land itself. The side that would take control of that area of the world would have an extreme advantage with extra land and another supply of resources. Erwin Rommel was from Germany and was nicknamed the "Desert Fox" because he was a very sly general. He was later involved with the assassination of Adolf Hitler. He realized that Hitler was going crazy and needed to be stopped...especially when Hitler decided to take the military's plans into his own hands. When he was involved in the assassination attempt, he didn't want anyone thinking that he was a traitor to his country. He committed suicide so he would be remembered as a great German hero. Operation Torch was where we would invade Morocco. The Casablanca Conference -Jan. of 1942 "Unconditional Surrender". The US will only accept a surrender from Germany when Germany will do anything that we tell them to do.
14. US Generals-Marshall, Eisenhower, Patton, MacArthur, Nimitz, Bradley: George Patton was a great US general during WWII, but he unfortunately died in an automobile accident. Eisenhower was known as the Supreme Allied Commander, and he was the next one in charge in Europe. Marshall was the chief of staff, and that was the guy that was in charge of the military, right under the president in ranking. McArthur was the leader of the US army against Japan. Nimitz was the leader of the US navy against Japan. Bradley was a famous general in Africa in WWII.
15. D-Day-Operation Overlord: June 6th, 1944, and it was the invasion of France (occupied by Germany), and the Allied powers invaded Omaha Beach, which caught the Germans off guard. We knew what they were doing, but they didn't know what the Allied powers were doing. The Allied powers fed false information to the Germans, making them think that we might attack a different place then we really were. Hitler moved most of his forces to where he thought the Allied powers were going to attack, but didn't. There were over 6,000 ships were sent to Omaha Beach, yet 2,000 were sunk. There were roughly about 10,000 Allied casualties, with 6,600 from the US. Operation Overlord was the largest amphibious invasion in world history with over 160,000, and it was the beginning of the end for Germany. The British, Americans, Canadians, and Free French were all involved in the parachuting down into France shortly after midnight. The Amphibious landing of the Allied infantry and armored divisions on the coast of France started around 6:30 a.m.
16. Battle of the Bulge: Took place near the end of the war in Belium in the mountains, and it was the bloodiest battle of WWII for the US. It occured 5 months after D-day, the Germans attacked the Allied powers, and it was one of Hitler's last offensive. Roughly 19,000 US soldiers. Lasted from December of 1944 to January of 1945.
17. FDR Dies-Truman takes over:
18. VE Day:
19. Battle in the Pacific-Island Hopping, Philippines, Coral Sea, Midway, Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima, Okinawa:
20. Navajo Code Talkers:
21. Doolittle's Raid:
22. Manhattan Project:
23. Hiroshima bombing:
24. Nagasaki bombing:
25. VJ Day:
26. Yalta Conference:
27. Nuremburg Trials:
28. Japanese Internment Camps in US:
29. Why did the Allies win WWII:
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