G.I.

• More than 16million Americans served in WWII

• They were called G.I.s which meant “Government Issue”

American Diversity

• 300,000 Mexican Americans• 25,000 Native Americans i.e. “code talkers”• Nearly 1 million African Americansi.e. Tuskegee Airmen• 350,000 women

D-Day

• D-Day- The invasion of Western Europe • June 6, 1944- 4,600 invasion craft and

warships moved across the English Channel

• 1,000 Royal Air Force bombers bombed German defense at Normandy

• 23,000 airborne parachuted behind enemy lines

• 150,000 Allied troops landed in Normandy, France

• Allies experienced heavy casualties

Pushing back the Nazis

• 1944- Nazis begin to loose numerous battles

• The Nazis are pushed back to the original German boundaries

• Battle of the Bulge- The German counterattack on the allies that pushed the lines back