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D DAY
linkwhen the allies offensive turned the tide of the war in the allies favor using paratroopers,gliders,bombings,and massive amounts of infantry with low powered weapons. despite the lack of fire power this invasion was sucessful but took a very long tme to accomplish. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D_day -
allies freed paris
when the allies assulted paris and the germans ignored hitlers orders and surrendered the city of paris to the allies with little to no resistance. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_French_Forces#Liberation_of_Paris -
battle of the bulge starts
the major german offensive using blitzcreed warfare starts
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battle of the bulge ends
when the germans were changing from offensive to defensive tactics due to the allies offensive. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_bulge -
mussolini dies
mussolini dies by execution in Giulino after being captured at Dongo by the allies. his wife also dies with mussolini. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mussolini
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hitler dies
adolph hitler ended his life with a bullet to the head in his bunker and also his wife eva killed herself by ingesting cyanide. later that day followers of hitler brought the corpses to the Reich Chancellery garden near the bunker and set on fire so that there bodies would never be abused by the allies as a spoil of war. the soviets belived that a skull they found was hitlers but it turns out that the skull belonged to a women under 40 years old. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Adolf_Hitle -
victory in Europe day
the day that germany surrendered on the battlefield the official german surrender wasnt until may 9 th 1945. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victory_in_Europe_Day
