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The Battle of The Atlantic
The United States entered war in December 1941, a critical time for the allies. At sea, Britain and the United States sturggled to control the Atlantic trade routes. German U-boats, or submarines, sailed out from ports in France and attacked and destoryed allied merchant ships. -
The Battle of Stalingrad
By October 1941, the cold Russian winter put a stop the the German advance which had not resumed until the summer of 1942. The Red Army made its standat Stalingrad, A major railand industrial center on the Volga River. The Germans began a two-month firebombing campaign. -
The Germans Surrender
In november, the Soviets took advantage of the harsh winter to launch a counterattack. The German Army was soon surrounded in the ruined city with no supplies and no hope of escape. On January 31st, 1943 more than 90,000 surviving Germans surrendered. -
D-Day
On June 6, 1944, the invasion of Western Europe began. Heavy casualties were suffered, but by late July, nearly 2 million Allied troops were in France. On August 25, 1944, Paris was liberated from German occupation. -
The Yalta Conference
In February, 1945, months before fall of Berlin, Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin met at Yalta in the Soviet Union, to discuss the shape of the postwar world. The leaders agreed: 1.) to split Germany into four zones, each under the control of a major Ally, including France. 2.) They planned a similar division of Berlin. 3.) Stalin promised to allow free elections in the nations of Eastern Europe that his army had liberated from the Germans. 4.) Stalin did not fufill any of the promises
