Notes
- "The Longest Day"
- Operation overlord
- allies open a second front in France against the Germans
- Land on five beaches named Utah and Omaha
- (American) Juno
- (Canadian) Sword
- (British and Polish) Gold
- Rommel felt that whoever won the beaches that day would win the war
- Battle for Normandy- summer 1944
- Falaise Gap
- Liberation of Paris
- Operation Market Garden- Sept. 1944 - Ploy to end the war before the Russians got to Berlin
- The Battle of the Bulge - German
- Counteroffensive
- Russian Attack on Berlin (300,000 Soviet Troops)
- Hitler Commits suicide in bunker
- Russians and Americans meet
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Summary
The Americans, Canadians, and the British land in France and begin to try and "win the beaches" this would then help them liberate the Germans. The Idea was to surround the Germans so that they could not have any counter moves. This then would push the Germans back into Germany and thus winning the war.
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"Today we rule Germany, tomorrow, the world." - Adolf Hitler
Subjunctive Question
What if the Second front in the East had not come into existence? Could the Allies have successfully completed Operation Overlord against the full might of the Nazis?