44. MILITARY STRENGTH AT THE START OF THE WAR IN THE PACIFIC Numbers do not include Allied military forces elsewhere in the world 14 51 ARMY DIVISIONS 1000 4300 AIRPLANES 70 67 SUBMARINES 93 129 DESTROYERS 37 41 CRUISERS 3 11 CARRIERS 10 10 BATTLESHIPS ALLIED (US, BRITAIN, NETHERLANDS) JAPAN MILITARY
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47. GERMAN GENERAL ROMMEL KNOWN AS THE “DESERT FOX” FOR HIS BRILLIANT GENERALSHIP IN NORTH AFRICA
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51. OPERATION BARBAROSSA Operation Barbarossa was a three pronged invasion of the Soviet Union. The goal was to seize all of the USSR up to the Ural Mountains including the major cities of Odessa, Kiev, Moscow, Leningrad and Stalingrad.
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57. THE END IN NORTH AFRICA: GERMAN TROOPS SURRENDERING TO ALLIED FORCES ROMMEL AND HIS AFRIKA CORPS WAS TRAPPED BETWEEN THE BRITISH AND AMERICAN FORCES AND AFTER HEAVY FIGHTING DESTROYED IN MAY OF 1943.
59. As an invasion of southern Italy pushed back Axis forces, a large Allied attack was planned to hit Nazi-controlled France by crossing the English Channel. Crossing the English Channel
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61. SUPREME ALLIED COMMANDER GENERAL EISENHOWER SPEAKS WITH PARATROOPERS JUST BEFORE THEY EMBARK TO JUMP INTO NAZI OCCUPIED FRANCE
63. THOUSANDS OF TROOPS ARRIVED IN FRANCE ON TOWED GLIDERS. MANY CRASHED, KILLING THEIR PILOTS AND PASSENGERS.
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65. Despite a treacherous initial landing, the Allies managed to land 326,000 men, 50,000 vehicles, and 100,000 tons of supplies in just one week.
66. The invasion of Normandy lasted from June 6 to July 24, followed by a large attack by US General Patton, General A.M. Patch, and the French Forces of the Interior (FFI). Paris was liberated by August and by October, the Germans were out of France.
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70. THE GERMANS LAUNCHED A SURPRISE ATTACK THROUGH THE ARDENNES FOREST THAT CAUGHT THE US ARMY UNPREPARED . THE FIGHTING LASTED FROM DECEMBER 16 TH TO FEBRUARY 9 TH 1945
71. DEAD US SOLDIERS WHO WERE MURDERED BY GERMAN TROOPS AFTER SURRENDERING
74. FDR HAS OFTEN BEEN ACCUSED OF SELLING OUT TO STALIN BUT BOTH FDR AND CHURCHILL KNEW WHILE THEY HAD 4 MILLION SOLDIERS STALIN HAD AN ARMY OF OVER 12 MILLION MEN.
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76. US TROOPS ENTER GERMANY FROM THE WEST WHILE RUSSIAN SOLDIERS ATTACK FROM THE EAST.
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79. US AND SOVIET SOLDIERS GREET EACH OTHER AT TORGAU, GERMANY IN APRIL OF 1945.
87. MODEL OF “LITTLE BOY” ATOMIC BOMB CREW OF THE ENOLA GAY THE PLANE THAT DROPPED THE FIRST ATOMIC BOMB ON JAPAN ENOLA GAY, PLANE THAT DROPPED THE BOMB
88. THE FIRST ATOMIC BOMB WAS DROPPED ON THE CITY OF HIROSHIMA AUGUST 6 TH , 1945, 70,000 KILLED AND EVEN MORE WOUNDED
89. A second atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki and the Japanese surrendered AUGUST 9 TH , 40,000 KILLED
