The Italian Campaign For World War II

victories.In July 1943 Patton led the invasion of Sicily.His Army along with the British Eighth army captured the island within 39 days.One major event almost destroyed Patton's career.He slapped two soldiers who were suffering from battle fatigue while he was inspecting army hospitals.Patton said that he thought that the soldiers were pretending and General Eisenhower forced him to apologize. The congress held up Patton’s promotion to Major General.

Strategically for the allies, the North African campaign was very significant. Britain had retained control of Egypt and the Suez Canal; important as it provided a quick route to India and the Far East where allied forces were fighting the Japanese. This was particularly important as Singapore had already been lost in the Far East. The allies held the Middle-Eastern oil fields and supplies and denied Germany any access. The shortages of resources on the Axis

The purpose of this invasion was to free Europe from the Nazis. It took place in Normandy and they were able to defeat the Nazis in about a week.

On June 6, 1944, the Allied troops invaded Western Europe from the sea. The Allied armies spent several months preparing for this large amphibious attack. There were air attacks that were meant to keep German forces from moving troops in to protect these areas. So on June 6 the allied forces invaded the French coastline to move the German army out of Western Europe.

The Invasion of Italy was planned in order to weaken the fascist regime. Winston Churchill, the prime minister of Britain at the time, had planned the invasion of Sicily with the help of President Roosevelt from the US. The Invasion of Italy had been a turning point for the allied powers because of the US and British armies strategic plans to invade, the fall of Mussolini, Italy joining the allied powers and the bringing in of Hitler on a two front war in order to weaken the axis powers leaving just Germany and Japan on the axis side.

Bernard law Montgomery was the commander of the British Eighth Army, which was to land around Catania. Patton commanded the I Armored Corps (The Western Task), which was to land near Palermo. The two forces would guard these cities allowing them to build up their troops to attack Messina. The plan appealed to Patton because he liked a plan that is risky, however; Montgomery had doubt about it because their forces would have to divide. Montgomery plan was for British to land troop of either sides of the Messina as Patton’s troops would land after him on the eastern coast to support Montgomery’s attack.

During WWII, there were numerous meetings between U.S. and British strategists. Of these meetings, two held significant importance: Quebec Conference and the Tehran Conference. These two meetings contained major military strategic decisions and they made significant impacts on the conduct of the war. It is important to note that throughout all meetings conducted in preparation for and during WWII, military strategy differences existed between the Allied

known as the ABC talks. It was there that they both targeted Germany as their

President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill both agreed that helping the Italians in exchange for surrender was the best option. Eisenhower however, did not agree with this. The Germans had an aggressive army outnumbering the Allies Powers 2 to 1. But in the end, the invasion of Italy was successful. In 1943, president Franklin D. Roosevelt decided that Eisenhower would be the Supreme Allied Commander, not Marshall. during this time he was in charge of planning and organizing the attack on the coast of Normandy which was later referred to “Operation Overlord.” Eisenhower had improved on his organizing and planning by previous operations in which he encountered. Now Eisenhower was extra careful on his planning. Although after continuous arguments with president Franklin D. Roosevelt on using the French resistance as a decoy to delay the ongoing Germans, and getting help from the British in the air, Eisenhower plan was now in motion. On June 6, 1944 also known as D-Day, was the commencing of Eisenhower’s Operation Overlord. Though there were mass casualties, they started the invasion of southern France. Everyone- including Eisenhower thought that the war would’ve

The invasion into Italy was when he Allies decided to target Italy, which lay to the north, across the Mediterranean sea. On July 10, 1943, the Allies began their invasion of Axis-controlled Europe with landings on the island of Sicily, off mainland Italy. Encountering little resistance from demoralized Sicilian troops, Montgomery’s 8th Army came ashore on the southeast part of the island, while the U.S. 7th Army, under General George S. Patton, landed on Sicily’s south coast. Within three days, 150,000 Allied troops were ashore. On August 17, Patton arrived in Messina before Montgomery, completing the Allied conquest of Sicily and winning the so-called Race to Messina.

The Battle of Anzio was a good plan executed poorly, which led to a stalemate resulting in one of the highest concentrations of field artillery in history. The Battle of Anzio or Operation Shingle would turn into a bloody stalemate lasting nearly four months. The Battle of Anzio happened during World War II. World War II was the largest, most destructive war ever fought. Fought all over the world, World War II resulted in an estimated fifty to seventy million deaths. (Gibson) World War II began in Europe when Germany invaded Poland in 1939. Upon the invasion of Poland, Great Britain and France declared war on Germany. Battles would rage for the next two years before America entered the war when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 and immediately following the attack Germany declared war on the United States.

The battle of Sicily, also named the Allied Invasion of Sicily, began on July 10th, when Allied seaborne troops arrived on the shore of Sicily. and lasted until August 17, 1943, when the Axis powers officially withdrew from the island. After the British captured Tunisia in the North African campaign, they decided to pursue north in favor of an offensive on southern Italy to ultimately capture the entire island. The U.S. also saw benefit from this invasion, as this would open up the Mediterranean for cheaper shipping between Allied forces by removing Axis naval and air forces from the island. Allied forces had the clear advantage in this invasion.

In 1941, Churchill and Roosevelt and their advisers met in Washington. Their first strategy was to defeat Germany and after they'll go after Japan. America planned it as soon as they would stabilize in the southwestern Pacific. Their plan was to make a cross-channel invasion of Europe from Britain. The Allies could'nt have enough ships to invade Europe before the next spring of 1942. Their next thought was to plan a bomb on Germany. During they would wait and send war materials to the Soviet armies fighting Germany in Russia. Churchill wanted to keep going and mess up Germany from the Meditterranian. For example they wanted to ruin Africa, Sicily, Italy, and so on just until Germany was so weak, they would invade across the Channel. America wanted to make a cross-channel invasion of Europe as soon as possible. In 1943, the Allies agreed to a round-the-clock bombing campaign against Germany. In the end there was no definite plan for a cross-channel invasion other than to agree to do it someday. In 1943, at the Tehran Conference, Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill held a final blueprint for allied victory. In the summer of 1944 there would be a cross channel invasion of Europe and a smaller invasion of southern France, and at the same time Russia would lanch an offensive on its front with Germany. Germany would be crushed between the jaws of a

In 1915, Italy proclaims war on Austria-Hungary, entering World War I as a member of the Allies: Britain, France and Russia. At the point when World War I broke out in the mid year of 1914, Italy pronounced itself impartial in the contention, despite its enrollment in the supposed Triple Alliance with Germany and Austria-Hungary since 1882. Throughout the span of the months that took after, Italy and its pioneers measured their choices; charmed by both sides, they deliberately considered how to pick up the best profit by cooperation in the war. The choice to join the quarrel as an afterthought of the Allies was constructed to a great extent in light of the certifications Italy got in the Treaty of London, marked in April 1915. By its terms, Italy would get the satisfaction of its national dream: control over domain on its fringe with Austria-Hungary extending from Trentino through the South Tyrol to Trieste. Likewise, the Allies guaranteed the Italians parts of Dalmatia and various islands along Austria-Hungary's Adriatic coast; the Albanian port

Alan Clarke said that the Germans felt it was forcing them “to take over Mussolini’s responsibilities in the Balkans in order to secure their southern flank” against the Soviets. Knowing this, it begs to question why Hitler had to secure his flank against a country that he was not at war with. Another historian, Graham Ross, also states that Hitler would have to rescue Mussolini from the results of his military incompetence. Mussolini’s failure to simply secure the Balkans for Axis power caused a setback in Hitler’s plans and therefore caused the Germans to take control. The Italians were much more humane and civilized when it came to fighting compared to that of the Germans, who were cruel and barbaric. This could be the reason why the Italians were unsuccessful in securing the Balkans. The Italians did not have the fighting mentality like the Germans did.