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D-Day
By: Marisol Meza
Period 1 Green
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D-Day
Role
The beginning of D-Day began on June 6, 1994. D-Day was the turning
point of World War II. 160,000 allies landed on a 60 mile stretch
across the French Coast line to fight the Nazi Germany on the
beaches of Normandy. More than 5,000 ships and 13,000 aircrafts
helped supported the D-Day Invasion. At the end of the D-Day fight
more than 9,000 allied soldiers were killed and wounded but more
than 100,000 soldiers marched to help try to defeat Hitler.
German
Solider
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Impact
The main significance of D-day is that it
opened up the second front on the
mainland of Europe. Hitler needed to
face actual combat on either side of
him, where prior to D-day the troops
in France were watching and
waiting. To have an operation as
large as the attack was it was hard
remain a complete secret from the
Germans. Some of the leaders of
the German military were so
completely surprised that they
refused to believe that the landing at
Normandy was even the main
invasion. The allies had planned that
the main invasion would be at Pasde-Calais, the closest point of
France to England. The plan took,
and German intelligence was
completely fooled.
Portrayed in A Positive Or
Negative Way
To me the war was a good thing because it was the
beginning of the end of Hitler and we gained more
control after the war. Also because we won the battle
and took Normandy France from the German.
Portrayed During The Time
People during that time saw D-Day as a good thing that
has happened. They think this because it showing that
the Allied had victory. They thought that if we would have
failed to win the war in Normandy then Hitler would have
continued to rule Western Europe.
Sources
http://worldwar2history.info/D-Day/
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/dday/timeline/index.html
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/dday/sfeature/sf_info.html
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Senker, Cath. How Did It Happen? World War 2. New York: Lucent
Books, 2005.