Wednesday March 27, 2013 (Test notes continued)

U.S. Invades Italy

  • German forces were also in Italy
  • after the invasion, Italy surrendered, but they were not totally free because there were still Germany forces in Italy
  • a lot of Americans fought and died in Italy
  • once we invaded, Italy surrendered fairly quickly
  • Italy was a long hard fight
  • The Italian Cam pain was a Salanzieo and D-day

-D-Day

  • Normandy, France Invasion
  • Germany controlled France
  • General Dwight Eisenhower was in charge of the allied powers
  • fought on Omaha beach
  • They delayed the invasion one day, because of the weather
  • June 6th, 1944
  • they cam across the English Channel
  • we won the invasion
  • The Atlantic wall was all along the coast of France, built by the Germans
  • before the invasion, we were giving out false information, we made Hitler think that we would invade Ca lay, France- it worked
  • biggest infectious invasion
  • Eisenhower, Patton, and Bradley- biggest U.S. generals
  • beginning of the end

-US bombing of Germany

  • U.S and Great Britain was bombing Germany every day
  • we used the incendiary bomb- it sets thing on fire
  • we were bombing Japan too
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