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Victory In Europe - Coggle Diagram
Victory In Europe
D-Day Invasion
led by General Dwight D. Eisenhower, thousands of planes, ships, tanks, and landing craft and more than three million troops awaited the order to attack
British, American, French, and Canadian troops
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began on June 6, 1944
a month after, more than one million additional troops had landed
By September, they had liberated France, Belgium, and Luxembourg.
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The Battle of the Bulge
On December 16, German tanks broke through weak American defenses along a 75-mile front in the Ardennes.
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Allied forces moved toward Germany from the west, the Soviet army was advancing toward Germany from the east.
Germans had little choice but to retreat, since there were no reinforcements available.