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Objective 6.10- Victory in Europe

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while fighting the Nazis in Italy allies begin plans to invade Europe the plan was given the codename Operation Overlord and the command of the operation was given to the Supreme Allied Commander US general Dwight D Eisenhower over 3 million us British and Canadian troops symbol the Great Britain and prepared for the assault Operation Overlord was given the codename D-Day on June 6th 1944 Allied Forces attack the beaches of pretty France that dawn three and a half million troops used amphibious landing craft land under heavy German fire before the attack the Allies had build a phony Army as a diversion to distract the Ransom make them think they were Landing in Calais hit worked he refused to send reinforcements to Normandy when the real tack commenced make it easier for the Allies to successfully invade France Invasion Force Ronnie food in the English Channel and the Canadians landed at Juno Beach early July the Allies landed nearly 1 million troops and 100,000 vehicles in France the tanks and supplies that landed helped in the war by August General George Patton's third Army in rolled into France on August 25th 1944 in French liberated Paris 1944 the Western Front had been ripped open in Germany was in retreat by late 1944 the Germans were heading east in Germany and the Allies were right on their tail it seems as though Warhead officially turn and is all but over but it wasn't over yet in Fall 1944 the Allies pushed each towards Germany chasing the retreating not but on December 16th 144 orders in last-ditch surprise attack it would become known as the Battle of the Bulge the Battle of the Bulge was the final German attack of World War II the battle was named because of the Boligee created an alliance between the two armies the Germans attack the 100 pin them down or the town of cut off or reinforce the one hundred first Airborne was in deep trouble for 10 days the 101st Airborne hung on for the Germans besieged foxholes and snow to protect themselves did German Shelly no way to keep themselves warm and they were under constant attack starving surrounded and outnumbered it didn't look good then on December 26th 1944 George Patton the third Army roll through the Argonne Forest his tanks arrived and drove the Germans of the final retrieving and resupplying the 101st Airborne for the rest of the war the German Army would be moving backwards and Hitler would never order another Advance Again by summer of 1944 Germany was treating and all friends pain in the East Americans the British the French were pushing to the right into the West as they Advance they found the horrors of the Holocaust Allied troops liberated Nazi death camps the Western and Eastern fronts the Soviets were the first to find the atrocities of concentration camps in Poland six million Jews were killed in concentration camps Germans cremated and buried massive amounts of bodies prior to these discoveries have been reluctant to accept Jewish refugees to America sign in Robert Oppenheimer but deny the Holocaust tragedies in History of the World by February of 1945 the war was put over FDR Churchill and Stalin met at Yalta in the Soviet Union to discuss a plan for the war's end and peace there are three main achievements of the meeting number one after the war Germany would be divided into four military zone occupied by the Allies West Germany would be divided into three zones occupied by the United States Great Britain and France the larger Zone would belong to the Soviet Union the city of Berlin would also be split into four military zones occupied by the same for country's democratic election in Poland and the rest of Eastern Europe and number three the Soviets would declare war on Japan and the United States fight in the Pacific but then two months after the meeting at Yalta set that occurred that could have changed the course of the war while vacationing at his residence in Warm Springs Georgia Franklin Delano Roosevelt unexpectedly dies of a brain hemorrhage FDR's loss was a lost for the ages his shocking and it sank the nation into a deep despair for most Americans FDR was more than a leader he was a fatherly figure and a friend guide them to two of the biggest crises in their lives the Great Depression and now the second world war his dad came at a critical time of the war where the y-axis were about to surrender and what was Roosevelt gone America was to see the end of the war through with the new leader vice president Harry S Truman was sworn in and became the 33rd president of the United States Truman quite the opposite of FDR he was quiet Meek and he was only vice president for 2 months before FDR's death catapulted him into a position to leave the United States to victory in World War II even with that the ARs death the writing was on the wall for Hitler and Germany by April 1945 German resistance had been defeated and the Reich was done on April 20th nineteen 5/8 days after the death of FDR with the Soviet shelling Berlin closing in all around Hitler and his top officials commit suicide in his bunker Hitler cause desertions across the German Army and force Nazi forces to surrender on every front Hitler and his wife Eva Braun retreating to their underground bunker were able took a Sinai capsule Hitler shot himself he left instructions for his officers to burn their bodies after his death his body was never found none the less with Hitler gone and the right collapsing Germany officially surrendered conditionally to the Allies on May 7th 1945 the very next day on May 8th 1945 the United States and the Allied Powers declared VE Day or victory in Europe day this day officially ended the war in Europe celebrations ring out everywhere millions of Americans came out and fill Times Square those who had loved ones who are fighting the European front celebrate the fact that they would soon be home safe and sound United States have done it along with their allies in Europe they had defeated Hitler and Mussolini however with this Victory fresh in mind most of please remember that the war in the Pacific still raged on against Japan and wild victory in Europe have been achieved victory in the Pacific was still in doubt but glorious hour I wish the track undo Roosevelt had lived to see this day Eisenhower informs me that the forces of Germany have surrendered to the United Nations the flags of freedom fly all over Europe

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