Major Allied Offensives: 1943-1944

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    Major Allied Offensives

  • The Big Three

    Roosevelt and Churchill agree on military priorities
  • Defeated

    AfriKa Korps and Axis Powers deafeated in North Africa
  • Sicily Attacked

  • Italians attack

    Italians overthrow government of Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini
  • Allied forces attack Italy

  • Attack on France

    Roosevelt and Churchill decided they would attack France no later than May 1944.
  • Rome captured

  • D-Day for France

  • German officers tried to assassinate Hitler

  • German lines broken through

    Allies broke through German lines around the Mormandy Beachheads
  • Allied troops liberated Paris