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Adolf Hitler orders the Nazis to capture strategic oil fields, factories, and farmlands in southern Russia and Ukraine.
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Roosevelt orders the invasion of Morocco and Algeria.
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German submarines had sunken more than 360 American ships along the East coast.
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After a 12 day battle, the British secured the Suez canal and forced Rommel to retreat.
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American troops led by general Dwight D. Eisenhower invaded North Africa.
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Soviet reinforcements arrived and surrounded Stalingrad, trapping around 250,000 German troops.
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Roosevelt headed to Morocco to meet with Prime minister Churchill.
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The Royal Air Force and the United States Eighth Army Air Force dropped around 53,000 tons of explosives on Germany each month.
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the first month that more German U-Boats were sunken by American Destroyers than allied merchant vessels.
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German submarines where unable to duplicate the success they had in the first three years of the Battle of the Atlantic causing them to lose the war.
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Troops commanded by General Dwight D. Eisenhower invaded sicily.
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Staling agreed to meet with Roosevelt and Churchill and proposed that they meet him in Tehran Iran.
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Germans retreated out of Italy
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Just after midnight Eisenhower gave the final order to begin.
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The first opportunity for D-Day.
