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Battle of Stalingard ends.
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Major Allied Offensives
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Roosevelt and Churchill meet in Casablanca, Morocco
The two discuss military priorities such as ridding the Atlantic sea of German U-boats, sending aid to the USSR, prepping for the 1944 invasion of Francce, capturing Sicily after the North African campaign, and taking offensive opportunities at Japan along the way. -
Hitler transfers 36 more army divisions to the Eastern Front
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Allied marine forces capture Guadalcanal
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Allies attack Sicily
Allies attack Sicily after defeating Afrika Korps in Tunisia. -
Mussolini is overthrown
Italians overthrow Mussolini and his government -
Allies attack Italy
Itlay is attacked after Hitler sends troops to Italy for support and to save Mussolini. -
Admiral Nimitz "island hops" through the Central Pacific
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Big Three meeting in Iran
Churchhill, Roosevelt, and Stalin met in Tehran, iran to discuss the invasion of France. It was decided that the US and Great Britiain would attack no later than May of 1944. -
Rome is captured
Heavy fighting on the beaches near Anzio delayed the capture until June. Although Stalin frowned upon the Italian invasion, it kept 25 Germany army divisions busy that could have been meanwhile fighting on the Eastern Front. -
D-Day
General Eisenhower commands thousands of vesself to leave the English ports and head to the beaches of Normandy, carrying 156,000 Allied soldiers. -
Soviets liberate Warsaw
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German officers try to assinate Hilter
Thinking that the war was practically lost, German officers tried to assassinate Hitler. Failing at their attempt put hundreds of people to death for possible conspiracy. -
American marines caputre Saipan, TInaian, and Guam in the Marianas.
- Naval forces also had a strong victory of Japan in the Battle of th Philippine Sea.
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Soviets take Rumania and Bulgaria
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2 million Allied troops were in France
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Soviets free Belgrade, Yugoslavia, and part of Hungary
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MacArthur's forces invade Leyte. Naval forces dominate the Japanese fleet.