The War Of World War II

     During the War Eisenhower and his staff felt this spot was the least likely to be attacked. The thought the Germans would not try any thing through the narrow passageway. The Germans wanted the opposite of what the Americans wanted to do. As stated above the Allied troops were 'resting' and reforming; they consisted of General Simpson's 9th Army and General Hodges 1st US Army in the north and General Patton's 3rd Army to the south. The Ardennes was held by General Middleton who had the 8th US Army Corps, 106th and 26th Infantry Divisions and 4th and 9th Armored Divisions.

Eisenhower then commanded Operation TORCH, the November 1942 Allied invasion of North Africa, and Operation HUSKY, the July 1943 invasion of Sicily. . . . His success in forging harmonious multinational coalitions brought his appointment as supreme commander, Allied Expeditionary Force, for Operation OVERLORD, the cross-channel invasion of France in June 1944.

Although he helped American troops in North Africa, Eisenhower’s biggest feat was the invasion of Nazi-occupied Western Europe, better known as D-Day. As the Supreme Commander of Allied Expeditionary Forces in World War II at the time, Eisenhower gave permission for a massive invasion called Operation Overlord. He only had a window of four days to launch the attack, but jumped at the opportunity (Koves). The 40 mile stretch of the beaches of Normandy, France was divided into five sections: Juno, Sword, Omaha, Gold, and Utah (Operation Overlord Animated Map). Late at night on June 6th, 1944, aerial troops secured both the eastern and western parts of the beach. In the morning, seaborne soldiers began to attack the coast (Operation Overlord Animated Map). By June 27th, the Germans had wrecked their ports, assuming this would slow down the Allies. Their attempt failed, and finally, on August 25th, the French army successfully liberated Paris (BBC News).

During World War II, while in command of the Mediterranean theater, Eisenhower made the strategic decision of making the commitment to radiate confidence no matter how dire the circumstances or how pessimistic he might actually feel. He wrote, “My mannerisms and speech in public would always reflect the cheerful certainty of victory that any pessimism and discouragement that I might ever feel would be reserved for my pillow.” 2

The first event that happened was the preparation of the invasion of Normandy; it was enormous and complicated. To command this rigorous operation, Western Allied leaders assigned Supreme Allied Commander, General Dwight D. Eisenhower, for the entire operation (“D-Day2”). He spent months in supervising the planning for the invasion, and successfully accomplished the plan

After the military disaster in Dunkirk, the Allies desperately needed to free Europe from Nazi Germany. The French were not the only Allies in need as Stalin’s Soviet Russia was doing their best to defend against Hitler’s lightning fast blitzkrieg. The British, American and Canadian forces needed to get on the ground in France in order to push back the Germans. An Allied invasion would create a two front war similar to the one that led to Germany’s defeat during World War I. Allied forces would need to cross the English Channel from Great Britain to the northern coast of France and make an amphibious landing. Amphibious landings on the coast depended on factors to be just right. Supreme Allied Commander, United States Army General Dwight D. Eisenhower, and Allied Ground Forces Commander, British General Bernard Montgomery, were in charge of the planning of this massive invasion codenamed Operation Overlord.

Allied Commander of the 12th Army Group, General Dwight D. “Ike” Eisenhower, was overall responsible for the Allied western front and knew the importance of retaining the city of Bastogne. Ike tentatively assigned the 101st Airborne Division to initially retain the city of Bastogne until the Allied forces could counter-attack the German advance with armored forces. Ike held an operations brief known as the

World War II was the second major war that broke out across the world. It was fought between the Axis Powers and the Allied Powers. The Axis Powers originally consisted of Germany, Italy, Japan, and later were joined by Hungary, Bulgaria, and Romania. The Allied Powers were the United States, Britain, France, Soviet Union, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Denmark, Greece, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, South Africa, and Yugoslavia. The United States involvement in World War II lead to many changes overseas and at home. One of the greatest changes that occurred for the U.S. centered on how the war altered women’s roles and how children were affected by these changes.

In the 20th century there are so many different events that happened during this time. One of the most major events that effected the world is World War II. It is an event that will never be forgotten because of how many different countries were involved and how it affected the Jews as well. During the war, the United States started to put up posters to get people to join the army and there were other countries that convinced the people to invest money into the war. Without the propaganda and the use of artwork on posters and flyers that they used to influence people in the U.S. they may have never won the war.

Going through the different levels of the educational system most everyone has talked about the Second World War in great detail. The European and Pacific Theaters were the main focus of many historians and their writing, because war pertained to the audience of the time. WWII revolved around the idea of freedom and liberating the fascist governments of Europe, the homefront back in the states was the war machine that kept the war churning. Millions of pages have been written about the experiences and battles during WWII, and still continue, not much in the way of the American homefront history has been written.

One of the controversies, judgments of historians and critiques of the war was when Eisenhower took command of all Allied ground forces in France on September 1, 1944 and his two internal problems, Patton and Montgomery. Both men hated one another and both wanted to be the first to arrive at Berlin.

The Nazis occupied most of the European continent. General Eisenhower was Supreme Commander of allied forces. The D-Day happened in the 1940’s the time of the Second World War. This was the time when there was a critical test of the national character since the American Revolution and the civil war. Drez (11-23) believed that the revolution led to the nation from the civil war that was a firmly united nation from the World War II. The fact is that the D-Day did not occur due to remote and infinitesimal influences. This was a time when the American leadership of the western allies was asserted unequivocally. It is believed that, this was a mantle bestowed not to be a kind gesture for the predominance of the American manpower and matters committed to the battle. Eisenhower was the supreme commander of the allied forces and had a duty to figure out a way to defeat Hitler. However, it was

Eisenhower to present his plan. Although this plan met resistance among several other Allied commanders, Eisenhower approved the mission. The first planning meeting took place that same evening for Operation Market.

Have you ever heard of Operation Overlord? The planning for Operation Overlord in 1943 with Dwight D. Eisenhower as supreme commander. The U.S. President, Franklin D. Roosevelt , has been waiting to form an operation in order to gain back France back from the Germans in World War 2.The U.S. chose General Dwight D Eisenhower to lead the invasion. The ground forces commanded by British General Bernard Montgomery. They both planned an attack together with the code name “Operation Overlord”. Operation Overlord was most known as D-day but it isn’t the only operation known as D-day. D-day is reference as Day-Day, because the actual day was not actually known so “D” took the place of the date. On June 5, Dwight D. Eisenhower gave a speech to his troops to keep them confident and

He pushed the British 8th Army to the east, it was greatly worn in Battle of Gazala, forcing Auchinleck(the British commander) to retreat to El Alamein positions on the border with Egypt. Auchinleck was soon changed on Bernard Montgomery and also the changes brought Britain total overweight in troops and new machinery in Africa. On October 23, 1942, when Rommel was in Germany for the reason of sickness, Montgomery started massive artillery bombardment which eventually finished as the Second Battle of El Alamein. Rommel immediately returned to North Africa, but could not help and stop break of the British which followed after a week of constant pressure by British infantry and tanks. On 4th of November he ordered to all of his people to retreat. Despite the eventual loss Rommel was a national hero for Nazi Germany. “Anybody who came under the spell of his personality turned into a real soldier. He seemed to know what the enemy were like and how they would react. “(Theodor Werner) This is a quote from one of the officers who served with the Desert Fox about Rommel. After the fail of anti-Hitler’s coup in 1944, one of its members, dying in tortures, named Rommel, and that determined the future of the great commander. On October 14th, Hitler sent to Rommel who was recovering from the wound two officers, giving him in honor of past services a choice - to commit a suicide and leave as a hero or a to be brought before a Public Tribunal, which in face meant an automatic death sentence . " I shall be dead in a quarter of an hour "( "The Forced Suicide of Field Marshall Rommel, 1944) - said the brave man and his wife took poison. Yet Rommel, as well as other Nazi generals, carries the share of responsibility for the world tragedy. He remained loyal to Hitler, because, being in full confidence that fulfills his military duty, took no notice of non-military consequences of Naxi activities. In this self-deception lies the tragedy