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D Day : A Day That We Freed France

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D-Day
By: Ellie Renee Duncan Most people think D-Day is a day that we freed France. This is true , however, there is much more to it. Many soldiers deceased, and people lost loved ones. One of the bloodiest battles in World War II was on June 6, 1944 on Omaha , Juno, Gold, Sword, and Utah beaches to free France from the Nazis ' and make them surrender.(D-Day by Martha Brack Martin) People have been told that the cause of the war was because Hitler believed in the perfect race. This may be true, but others have different reasons. Dwight D. Eisenhower entered the war to help plan for D-Day and lead them into the war. He was responsible for the whole thing. Franklin Roosevelt may have helped and same with Winston Churchill. Hitler wanted …show more content…

He took control of Austria and invaded Poland on September 1,1939, so Europe started to fight. He wanted to destroy and take over Russia quickly, but they fought back. America entered the war in 1941. He sent all the Jews he could find to concentration camps. They had barbed wire, and you had to do labor then they starved you and they said you were going to take a shower but genuinely they put poisonous gas in the shower head and killed them. Some of his military leaders tried to assassinate him but failed including Rommel, which was forced to take poison in doing so. He killed about 5,000 people that he thought were involved in the plot. He married Eva Braun and blamed everyone but himself for the war and the next day Eva drank poison and Hitler shot himself. That pretty much meant the Nazis had to surrender. Rommel was in charge of the Axis Powers military. Dwight D. Eisenhower had to make the call whether to hold off on D-Day for a while or do on June 6, 1944 because there were terrible storms. He didn 't like it, but it had to be June 6th. This was also Rommel 's wife 's birthday, and since there were storms he felt safe. Besides he wanted to spend time with his family on his day off. "U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill were responsible for leading their nations to victory and jointly planned strategies for the cooperation and eventual success

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