HISTORY
WORLD WAR II
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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ships carried Allied troops and equipment across the English Channel to the French region of Normandy
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the code name was Operation Overlord
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There were more than 9, 000 Allied causalities on the first day
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The invasion was unsuccessful and the Allies had to turn back after a few weeks
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Detailed explanation-1: -In August 1942, the Allies raided a Nazi-held port in France to see if a larger invasion was possible. The raid on Dieppe was a failure, costing the Allies hundreds of troops and scores of tanks and aircraft. But the operation still provided important lessons for another, bigger invasion two years later.
Detailed explanation-2: -The challenges of mounting a successful landing were daunting. The English Channel was notorious for its rough seas and unpredictable weather, and the enemy had spent months constructing the Atlantic Wall, a 2, 400-mile line of obstacles.
Detailed explanation-3: -The war would not be over by Christmas. But D-Day had opened another major front, where the bulk of America’s rapidly expanding army could at last be brought to bear. It led to the liberation of France, denying Germany any further exploitation of that country’s economic and manpower resources.
Detailed explanation-4: -If D-Day had failed and Germany had defeated the allies in Europe, postwar Europe and the modern world today would have been much different as the Soviet Union would have then singlehandedly taken Germany and potentially even most of Western Europe.