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Planning Germanys Defeat
Roosevelt and Churchill Traveled to Teheran to meet with Stalin. FDR and Stalin agreed on a cross channel invasion and Churchill reluctantly agreed. -
Battle of the Bulge
Hitler ordered a surprise counter attack that almost succeeded, But the allies held their ground until air support could show up. -
D-Day
American and British forces attacked the beaches of normandy with the largest fleet ever assembled in hoped ti gain a foothold in france. -
Germans turn on Hitler
An officer planted a bomb at Hitlers headquarters that killed or wounded 20 people but hitler survived the explosion. -
Liberation of paris
Hitler ordered his generals to destroy Paris but they disobeyed him and that caused the allies to be able to take it back. -
Execution of Mussolini
Mussolini tried to flee Italy and go to Switzerland but was captured and executed -
Battle on Iwo Jima
The U.S marines fought the dug in determined enemy in a fierce battle that was one of the deadliest in Americas Island Hopping Campaign -
Germany surrenders
In a little French schoolhouse that used to be Eisenhower's headquarters Germany surrendered. -
First Atomic Bomb
The first Atomic Bomb was tested in Alamogordo, New Mexico and the reaction form the Americans was that the war was over after they heard about how deadly the bomb was -
Hiroshima and Nagasaki Are Destroyed
The United States dropped bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki three days apart to try to convince them to surrender and it works but lots of Japanese people were dead or missing.