Allies of World War II

The Devil’s Garden, along the 40-mile strip ensuring British tanks could not launch a surprise armor offensive. However, on the night of October 23, 1942, General Montgomery initiated Operation Lightfoot. The Beginning of the Battle of El Alamein Allies mission. The unrelenting General Montgomery assembled his senior officers to discuss their offensive plans to turn back the opposing Axis forces. Montgomery wanted to divide his forces and make Rommel’s army fight a two-sided front. Operation…

on the 1st of September, the Allied forces that were Britain and France declared war on their German neighbour (Layton, 1992). In the end, the Allied forces celebrated their victory against their opponents in 1945, but the outcome of the war wasn’t thanks to Allied strategic successes but to the mistakes of the Axis powers that led to their inevitable downfall. The mistakes that caused the result of the Second World War can be seen in the events of Operation Barbarossa, the Battle of Britain and…

Operation Torch is a code name given to an allied operation of the invasion of North Africa, consisted of the France territories , mainly Algiers and Morocco. Historians had argued that Operation Torch and Patton’s role in it as one of the reason why the allies were able to push back the Axis out of Africa, mainly due to the fact of the importance of the operation itself. Operation Torch marks the first campaign in which there exists an Anglo-American cooperation; Winston Churchill himself had…

1939 war was waged throughout the world. This is the day historians look at as the start of the world war 2 period. Though the date is september 1939 the acts that went on through this war and the holocaust had a preamble starting before the biblical times.The U.S. being the war capital shockingly entered the fight very late into the war. The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor is what lead to the United States of America to enter World War Two. These are reasons why the U.S. chose to enter the war…

France in 1940. Some, if not most, of the attention is given to Hitler’s blitzkrieg style of invasion as a main reason for France’s crushing defeat, but there were many other factors that compounded the devastation that was associated with Hitler’s war on France. As I will highlight, the German advance via the “all new” tank tactics of the time was an extremely devastating driving force that was the tip of the spear but, it should also be noted that France it’s self was a contributor in the…

Tanaka underscores that he is not endeavoring to find out what the Japanese soldiers did but he starts by talking about the similarity in the abuse and crime that were committed by allied armed forces right after the war. From one perspective, for instance, Japanese warriors had an 'individual decision ' in connection to the abuse of comfort women, which they did without thinking twice, so yes it is a very cruel crime and they should own up it. The names 'solace stations…

In 1942 Churchill was facing public criticism due to poor progress in the war. He never tried to hide the truth from the House of Commons or the British public. His honesty was also extended to the Allied forces. In one of his most difficult moments of World War II, he chose to go directly to Moscow to inform Stalin that the British would not be able to open a second front in France against the Germans. He felt it was…

The Evacuation from Dunkirk was the largest, and most successful military evacuation in world history. Over 330,000 soldiers were evacuated from the beaches of France after a failed attempt at defending it from the Nazi occupation. When the Germans invaded France in 1940, the British sent soldiers to help in the defence of the country. German tactics and technology allowed the Nazis to beat back the French and the British to the coast line. Not being able to counter-attack, the British…

The invasion of Normandy was one of, if not the most important victory the allies ever had during World War II. With this victory, the United States, British and Canadian forces began pushing inland towards Germany to suffocate Hitler and his forces from the West while Stalin and his troops attacked from the East. Without this victory in Northern France, Europe and the rest of the world could look much differently than it does today. The plan for an offensive to attack Germany by crossing the…

An Italian named Guglielmo Marconi in 1896 invented the radio, which helped in the connection of people and the spreading of ideas (Ackermann). : "The core armory of offensive warfare in the Second World War consisted of aircraft, tanks, and trucks. The effectiveness of these weapons in German hands depended on their use in combination, concentrated in great number at the decisive point of battle. Operational success also relied on communication. Radio played a vital role in linking tank to…