WORLD WAR II 1941 1945
THE D DAY INVASION
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Finally, Eisenhower wrote an encouraging message. He read it to the troops as they set out across the English channel.
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The D-Day landings went very well. Over the coming months, Germany was crushed. Adolf Hitler killed himself in April 1945. Germany surrendered within a week.
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Second, he prepared a message in case the invasion failed. In the message he blamed himself for failing. Luckily that message never had to be read.
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But no one would say that World War II had been easy. Many suffered great losses. The years of fear and longing stayed with the people who had lived through them.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Germany had formally surrendered on November 11, 1918, and all nations had agreed to stop fighting while the terms of peace were negotiated. On June 28, 1919, Germany and the Allied Nations (including Britain, France, Italy and Russia) signed the Treaty of Versailles, formally ending the war.
Detailed explanation-2: -Hitler’s refusal to surrender to the Allies led to “Operation Overlord” on June 6, 1944. British, Canadian, and American forces managed to take key points on the coast of Nazi-occupied France, signaling a beginning to the end of war in Europe. The time had finally come.
Detailed explanation-3: -World War 2 ended with the surrender of Germany to the Allies in May 1945 and the unconditional surrender in, August of that year, of Japan to America following the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Detailed explanation-4: -August 9, 1945 The United States drops an atomic bomb on Nagasaki. September 2, 1945 Having agreed in principle to unconditional surrender on August 14, 1945, Japan formally surrenders, ending World War II.