Chapter 32 Flashcards
D-day
Invasion of Normandy June 6th, 1945
Battle of Stalingrad
Germany lost 150,000;
Soviet wins;
Turning point
Battle of El Alamein
British break through German lines in Egypt and turn the tide of the war in Northern Africa
King Victor Emmanuel III
has Benito Mussolini arrested
Battle of the Bulge
Germans last attempt to break through Allied lines;
American Victory
FDR dies
Harry Truman takes ove
Allied forces capture Sicily from Italy and Germany
toppled Mussolini from power
Operation Overlord
D-Day
Hitler commits suicide
He knew war was ending
Germany surrenders
war is over in Europe
Mussolini Captured in Mulan
killed by Itlalians
Allies push Germans back at Battle of the Bulge
The Germans had to retreat
Allied forces moved toward Germany from the west, and the Soviet army was advancing toward Germany from the east
Hitler now faced a war on two fronts
Within a month of D-Day, more than one million additional Allied troops had landed.
By September, they had liberated France, Belgium, and
Luxembourg
The Luftwaffe went on nightly bombing raids
set much of the city ablaze and reduced the rest to rubble