WORLD WAR I
CAUSES AND COURSE OF THE WAR
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Greece
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Sicily
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France
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Cyprus
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Detailed explanation-1: -Casablanca and Trident, January–May 1943. To decide what should be done after victory in North Africa, Roosevelt and Churchill, with their advisers, met at Casablanca in mid-January 1943. After long argument, it was eventually agreed that Sicily should be the next Axis area to be taken, in July.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Casablanca Conference, 1943 The most notable developments at the Conference were the finalization of Allied strategic plans against the Axis powers in 1943, and the promulgation of the policy of “unconditional surrender.”
Detailed explanation-3: -The Allies’ Italian Campaign began with the invasion of Sicily in July 1943. After 38 days of fighting, the U.S. and Great Britain successfully drove German and Italian troops from Sicily and prepared to assault the Italian mainland.
Detailed explanation-4: -Sicily was a natural route to mainland Italy and the European continent going back in history to the Punic Wars between Carthage and Rome. The Allies could count on air cover from Malta for a Sicilian invasion.