HISTORY
WORLD WAR II
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Question
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You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you. . . . you will bring about the destruction of the German war machine, the elimination of Nazi tyranny over the oppressed peoples of Europe, and security for ourselves in a free world. Your task will not be an easy one. Your enemy . . . will fight savagely. But this is the year 1944! . . . The tide has turned! The free men of the world are marching together to Victory!”-from General Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Order of the Day, 1944 What event is being described in General Eisenhower’s message to the Allied forces?
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Battle of the Bulge
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Battle of Midway
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Dropping of Atomic Bomb
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D-Day
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Eisenhower’s farewell address (sometimes referred to as “Eisenhower’s farewell address to the nation") was the final public speech of Dwight D. Eisenhower as the 34th President of the United States, delivered in a television broadcast on January 17, 1961.
Detailed explanation-2: -Eisenhower to encourage Allied soldiers taking part in the D-day invasion of June 6, 1944.
Detailed explanation-3: -(1944) General Dwight D. Eisenhower gives the order of the day, “Full victory–nothing else” to paratroopers somewhere in England, just before they board their airplanes to participate in the first assault in the invasion of the continent of Europe .
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