1. Fall of Italy and Germany
Objective: Allied victory in Germany

2. Italy Invade Sicily first
Churchill asking Italian people “whether they want to die for Mussolini and Hitler or live for Italy and civilization?”
Begin to turn against Mussolini
Forced out of power
Allies take Sicily and look to all of Italy
German forces look to defend Italy
Tuskegee Airmen
Land in Anzio

3. Invading Europe Operation Overlord Invasion of mainland Europe
Beaches of Normandy – northern France
Plan to use speed and surprise
Worried about new German weapons
Allies able to destroy some rocket-launch sites

4. Normandy Hitler new Allies would invade soon D-Day – June 6th, 1944
Where?
D-Day – June 6th, 1944
Soldiers parachute behind German lines
Secure key points
Ships offshore begin to shell German strongholds
Air support
Amphibious craft – thousands wade through the water and up the beaches
Germans slow to respond
10,000 Allied casualties
By July – nearly a million troops landed

6. Normandy “The whole western front has been ripped open.”
By end of August – Paris is freed from Hitler
Nazis now retreating

11. Battle of the Bulge Allies keep pushing east
Allies are losing a lot of lives but winning battles
December 16,1944 – Germans launch a surprise offensive
German advance into Allied lines
Bastogne
Germans surround American troops
Freezing and no supplies
George S. Patton