The Allies Are Victorious

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Allies Plan For Victory Dec. 22nd 1941-

F.D.R. & Churchill meet at White House to develop joint-war policy – Agree to open front

in the West Weaken Germany

on two fronts and then defeat them

The North African Campaign

Battle of El Alamein- Oct. 23rd 1942- Allied troops attack Rommel’s army – Nov. 3rd – Rommel’s

army defeated Operation Torch-

107,000 allied troops led by General Eisenhower land in Morocco & Algeria – Rommel’s Afrika Korps

defeated May 1943

Invasion of Italy 180,000 soldiers land

on Sicily on July 10th 1943

July 25th – King Emmanuel III fires Mussolini and has him arrested

Sept. 3rd- Italy surrenders

April 28th 1945- Mussolini captured and killed

D-Day Invasion Invasion of Normandy

was the greatest land & sea attack in history

June 6th 1944 – D-Day August 25th – Paris

liberated by allies – France, Belgium,

Luxembourg and the Netherlands liberated by September

The Battle of the Bulge Hitler was facing

war on two fronts

Dec. 16th- German tanks break through Allied lines – Allies push back

Germans and win

– Continue march towards Germany

Germany’s Unconditional Surrender

March 1945- Allies enter Germany

By the middle of April – 3 million Allied soldiers and 5 million Soviet soldiers are approaching Berlin

April 29th- Hitler gives final address

May 7th – German military unconditionally surrenders – May 8th- V-E Day – Sept. 2nd- V-J Day