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U.S. brought in to
war on Dec 7 1941 –
bombing of US port
___________ by Axis
Power Japan
Joined ________ Powers
includes helping protect
Britain from Nazi air
attacks & potential
invasion
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German _______ watch
Allied forces
U.S. used
messages/images
False invasion plans to
attack at C_________ closest point to Britain
Germans, then made
this most heavily
armed & defended
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Original invasion on June 5,
but __________ forced delay
– had to keep plan secret
Deployment onto beaches
at ______________, France
__________ Allied troops British, US, Canadian,
Australian, French, etc…
Supreme Commander is
______________________
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Allied forces divided by 50 mile stretch along
France’s north coast … along ____ sectors/beaches
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Westernmost landing
Primarily made up of
__________ troops/arms
Force of 23,000 deployed
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Most heavily fortified
Primarily ___________
invasion force
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Only ___ tanks survive
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5,000 American's KIA
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Sector was assigned
to the ____________
Beach overlook was
heavily armed by
____________ nests
End of the day over
_______ troops had
successfully landed
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___ days to secure beaches
– allowing more troops &
equipment (tanks)
__________ troops & more
than 100,000 _______ of
military equipment
____ months later Allies
reached Paris – liberating
it from __________ control
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Marked 1st successful Allied invasion into West
Europe – combining with Italian Campaign
Effort to liberate Europe from the hands of Fascist
& Nazi Dictatorships
Major turning point in World War II - led to the
German downfall & eventual surrender of one of
the major Axis powers a year later
• Starts with Invasion of Italy in 1943 &
continues with 1944 D-Day invasion
• Creation of a Western Front (France)
• Airborne operation using gliders to drop
paratroopers behind German lines
• Target German industrial factories, oil
storage, transportation infrastructure …
• Prevented Luftwaffe from posing
serious threat that it once had
• Now had ability to launch bomber raids
from France & Britain into Germany
• Soviets (Red Army) closing in toward
Germany = taking much of Poland &
other Eastern European territories
• These battles constituted the largest
military confrontations in history
• Estimated 70 mil deaths in WWII over
30 mil on EF – includes many civilians
• As Red Army progress toward Berlin,
they came across – starting in Poland –
concentration/extermination camps