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African Campaign
In September 1940, Italian Fascist leader Benito Mussolini ordered forces from Libya into Egypt. The British stepped in to help. Ther Germans sent General Erwin Rommel to counter the British aid and was successful. -
African Campaign
Allied forces drove the Axis Powers back across Libya to Tunisia. GeneralSwight Eisenhower led Americans to victory in Morocco and Algeria. -
African Campaign
General Rommel and his German army surrender to the Allied forces in Africa.