War for Europe and North Africa - Part II

6. What was D-Day?
D-Day was an attack by the Allies (America, Canada, and Great Biritain), the plan was to attack Normandy France becasuse it was a key point for landing the troops via Water. Normandy was also key to the Allies objective because form that point they could fly bombers into Berlin and take out Germany. D-Day consisted of many intrecate plans, including Plan Fortitude which made the GErmans think that there was an army in Ireland planing to attack Pas de Calisa which is the point that the Germans thought that the Allies were going to attack. D- Day was planed for a few days before the actual date that went down however because there was bad weather and the Ships could not cross the English Channel. D-Day took Place on June 6th 1944, after midnight 3 divisions parachuted behind enemy lines to distract the Gemanss from seeing the ships carrying the soldiers to normandy. This was the largest land and sea and sircraft mission in the history.
though there were heavy casulaties teh Allies were able to gain an 80 mile strip of land. right after the invasion of Normany the Allies went and liberated Paris.

7. What happened at the Battle of the Bulge?
In October of 1944 the Americans captured the first Germany town (Aachen.) Hitler was not prepared for this so he launched a desperate attack to break through the allied lines and to recapture the Belgian port Antwerp. The Germans broke through the Allied 80 mile front, tanks drove 60 miles into Allied territoy creating a gap in the lines that gave the battle its name, Battle of the Bulge. As the Germans advanced westerward they captured 120 American GI's near Malmedy. The elite German troops herdered the prisoners into a large field and killed them all with Machine guns and pistols. The battle took place for a month. When the battle was over the Germans had been pushed back, and not much changed from where they had started. but really the events had made a huge change, the Germans lost 120,000 troops and 600 tanks assult guns and 1,600 planes; now they didnt have much supplies left so all they could do was retreat.


8. What did Allied troops find in Germany?
When the Soviet Union invaded the heart of Germany they came across Majdanek a German death camp. As the Soviet Union advanced toward the camp the Nazis tried to burn and bury any evidence of their horrible crimes, but they didnt have enough time. When the Soviet Union entered the camp they found thousands of starving people who were barley living, there was the worlds largest crematorium, and a storehouse filled with about 8,000 pairs of shoes. The allies thought it was "a giant murder plant."


9. What happened to Hitler? What happened to F.D. Roosevelt? Who became U.S. President?
April 25th 1945 teh Soviet Union had invaded Berlin, on April 29th he married Eva Braun whom he had been with his whole time in office. He worte his last adress to the union blaming the Jews for the war and telling them why he was goint to kill himself. He shot himself and Eva drank poision, before he died he ordered some people to take their bodies outside to be burned that way there would be no way to desacrate the bodies. may 8th 1945 Eisenhower accepted the surrender of the 3rd Reich.
President FDR died on April 12th 1945 while he was posing for a portrait in Warm Springs Georgia. He did not live to see the V-E day. The night of his death Vice President Harry S. Truman became the nations 33rd President.

War for Europe & North Africa

1. To what did Roosevelt and Churchill agree early in the war?-
Roosevelt and Churchill both agreed that they should join forces against the Access powers and that they should have a meeting about war plans ASAP. At the meeting Chirchill convinces Roosevelt that they shouold be worries about the germans first because they were a greater threat than the Japanese.

2. Why was winning the Battle of the Atlantic so crucial to the fortunes of the Allies?-
Winning the battle of the Atlantic was crutical to the fortunes of the Allies because if the German U-boats kept sinking the Supplies ships to Britian to America the British would never get supplies. By putting the ships into convoys escored by sinkers and planes with readers the boats arrived saftley, and the Germans U-boats were slowed down immensley.

3. Why was the Battle of Stalingrad so important?-
The Battle of Salingrad was very important because the Germans were going to capture/ conqure Stalingrad because it had oil and factories that would help them in the war. The Germans thought it was going to be an easy battle they had nightly air bombings on the city and buildings were set ablaze. When winter hit the Soviets led a counter attack becasue they could get their tanks around with the newly fallen snow. They surrounded Stalingrad and traped the GErman troops inside of the city. Many people on the soviet side were killed more than all the Americans in the whole war. But most Germans surrendered becasue they were freezing. The victory of the Soviet Union was a turing poin in the war becasue from this pont on the Soviet Army was able to take back their land and push Germany back to the West.

4. What happened in the war in North Africa?-
Operation Tourch was when the allied powers opened up a new front in North Africa in order to divert German troops away from the Soviet Unions front. 107,000 Allied troops landed in Casablanca, Oran, and Algiers in North Africa. From their the went east chasing the Afrika Korps which was led by General Erwin Rommel. After a few months the Afrika Korps surrendered in May of 1943.

5. What happened after the Allies invaded Italy?-
When the allied troops invaded Italy(Sisley first) in 1943, because of the capture of Sisley the italian government forced Mussolini to resign. He was the "most hated person in Italy." The Italians were celebrating the end of the war, but Hitler was determinded to make the Allied powers stop capturing Italy that way they wouldnt get into Germany. The "Battle of Bloody Anzio" was the hardest battle teh Allies fought in Italy and it lasted for 4 months (May 1944.) The attempt to free Italy didnt succeed until 1945 when Germany itself was close to collapse.