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- Operation overlord
- Allies open a second front in France against the Germans
- Land on five beaches named Utah and Omaha (American) Juno (Canadian) Sword and Gold (British and Polish)
- Rommel felt that whoever won the beaches that day would win the war
- Had defences on the beaches to keep enemies away, ex: Belgium gates
- Battle for Normandy- summer 1944
- Falaise Gap
- Liberation of Paris
- Operation Market Garden- Sept. 1944- ploy to end the war before the Russians got to Berlin
- The Battle of the Bulge- German counteroffensive
- Russian attack on Berlin (300,00 Soviet troops)
- Hitler commits suicide in Bunker
- Russians and Americans meet
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D-Day also known as Operation Overlord. Second front on the beaches named : American: Utah and Omaha, Canadian: Juno, British and Polish: Sword and Gold. Rommel believed that whoever won over the beaches would win the war.
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Subjunctive Question
If they were not successful against the Germans, would the end result been different?