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Roosevelt and Churchill agreed that there priorities were ridding the Atlantic of German U-boats, sending all possible aid to the Soviets, increasing the strategic bombing campaign against Germany, preparing for the 1944 cross-channel invasion of Frace, capturing Sicily after the North African campaign, and taking offensive opportunities against Japan as they rose.
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After bitter ground combat and spectacular naval battles, the marines captured Guadalcanal in Feburary 1943. They secured the Solomon Islands by years end.
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Afte the Allies defeated the Afrika Korps in Tunisia, they attacked Sicily. The island then secured the Mediterranean Sea for shipping and created a base in Italy.
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General Bernard Montgomery (Britain) and his forces engage Rommel in Egyp and begin pusing back.
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Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin met in Tehran, Iran. To discuss how the invasion of France was a threat.
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The allies eventually discovered that bombing specific targets, or pinpoint bombing, was dificult in daylight and impossible at night. They begain dropping bombs over a more wide spread area.
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Roosevelt and Churchill notified Stalin that they would attack France no later than May 1944.
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This was the day the Allies would invade France. Extreme security procedure were taken.
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2 million allie troops were in france and they had liberated Paris.
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The largest naval battle of all time. We crippled the Japanese fleet. This helped severely weaken Japan's military strength and helped us move even close to Japan itself.
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