La lenta avanzata alleata in Italia
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Linea Gustav, una linea fortificata che ostacolava l’avanzata degli angloamericani

Operation Shingle

gli alleati tentarono un sbarco sul litorale laziale

Stavano vincendo, ma poi hanno perso

Battaglia di Cassino

tentativo di sfondamento della Linea Gustav

guerra di posizione

L'Operazione Diadem permise agli alleati di superare le difese tedesche

Dal confine tra Lazio e Campania, fino a Ortona

Cassino era la città centralle della linea

La liberazione di Roma e il governo Bonomi
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Dopo lo sblocco dello stato militare, la 5 armata degli alleati arrivò a roma

La presa di Roma fu una svolta politica e Militare

Badoglio rassegnò le dimissioni

E arrivò Bonomi

D-Day: Operation Overlord
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Rome was liberated from the Nazi on June 4th

Operation Overlord

Great Britain tricked Germany and made them think they were landing north France

allies landed on 5 French beaches

Germany wasn't able to hold the allies back

Operation Dragoon

second invasion from the Mediterranean

southern coast

Lead to the libaration of Paris

Italia: l’estate delle stragi, l’ultimo inverno di guerra
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dopo la linea Gustav è stata formata la Linea Gotica

costruita dai tedeschi

dalla zona a Sud di Viareggio fino a Rimini

Nel appennino Kesselring sperimentò: “guerra ai civili”

azione di terrorismo per distruggere qualsiasi collaborazione del popolo con i partigiani.

L’attività della Repubblica Sociale Italiana5

Mussolini ha cercato di sviluppare una amministrazione al Nord

limitata dalla presenza tedesca

Partito Fascista Repubblicano

Che puntava a fomentare la guerra civile a punire i traditori

War in the Pacific
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Japan suffered the American counteroffensive

U.S. suffered many losses and casualties

In the end of 1944, the U.S. started to bomb Japanese territory

The final Allied offensive and Germany’s surrender
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German troops on the Eastern front collapsed

Yalta Conference

Roosevelt, Stalin and Churchill

In the conference they defined the postwar reorganization of Germany and the territory division

split Germany in 4 (France, Great Britain, USA and USSR)

demilitarisation and denazification of Germany

nazi war criminals were put on trial and leaders were executed

United Nations was created

L’offensiva di primavera in Italia8

arrivarono rifornimenti in Italia

Partigiani continuarono a combattere i tedeschi che si stavano ritirando

Mussilini fugge in Svizzera ma viene riconosciuto e fucilato

The Potsdam Conference
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In Germany

attended by former Vice President of the USA

it was decided that:

Germany and Austria had to be divided into four zones

German annexations in Europe were to be reversed

Nazi laws would be abolished

Nazi Party members who had public positions and opposed the allies postwar had to be removed from office

To demilitarise Germany

Democracy

German educatioal system had to teach democratic ideas

there could be democratic parties in Germany

Freedoms of speech and religion were to be respected

German industrial war potential was to be destroyed (industries)

The end of the war in the Pacific

goal was to seize control of the closest islands to the Japanese archipelago

Japanese weren't surrendering

Harry Truman decided to drop the atomic bomb over Japan

(Atomic Bomb) "Project Manhattan”, led by Oppenheimer

August 15th Jappan surrendered,