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Victory in Europe
1942-1943Allies turned back the axis advances
1944-1945 – Huge advances for allies!
D-DayJune 6th, 1944
Allies took Germany by force – attacking the beaches of Normandy
Crossed over the English Channel
5 Beaches planned – 50 miles
Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno and Sword
Four beaches – landed at 6:30 am – casualties relatively low
Omaha – Germans very tough!
Built trenches and concrete boxes on hill to fire from
Mines placed all over the beach
Some soldiers dropped too far from the beach and drowned
Fierce fighting but allies gained stronghold!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPA6kRuhKks
Germans now fighting a two front war!
Soviets coming from the East and US, Britain and France from the West
August 1944 – Allies liberate France!!!
Plots to overthrow HitlerJuly 20, 1944 – a bomb planted at Hitler’s headquarters
20 wounded or killed – Hitler survived
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xITUH2gGMZU
Battle of the BulgeDecember 1944 – Hitler ordered counter attacks of allied troops in Belgium
Fierce fighting back and forth – Allies eventually pushed the Germans back!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBeXRvdlmyY
January, 1945Soviets reach Berlin!
Italy captured too! Mussolini tried to escape to Switzerland!
Captured and executed!
By now, British and Americans in Germany!
Hitler a WRECK!People no longer taking orders from him
Paranoid from all the drugs he took
Believed he still could win!
April 30th – committed suicide
May 7th – Germany surrendered
V-E Day
May 7th, 1945 – Victory in Europe Day!
FDR had died a few weeks earlier so he did not get to see the end of the war – failing health led to stroke
Truman in power
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qg-eIL59rrY&safe=active