Major Allied Offenses 1943-1944

Division Among Allies

Roosevelt and Churchill met in Casablanca, Morocco.

January 14 1943

German surrender in Tunisia.

May 13 1943

Allies defeated the Afrika Korps in Tunisia, they attacked Sicily.

July 10 1943

Soviet Army counterattacks Germans in Russia

July 12, 1943

War-weary Italians overthrew the government of Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini

July 25, 1943

Allies complete conquest of Sicily

August 17, 1943

Allied forces attack Italy

September 3, 1943

Italy declares war on Germany

October 13, 1943

Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin meet in Tehran, Iran.

November 28 1943

Allied invasions of Normandy and Such.

Soviet troops experience success against the Germans in the Crimea.

April 10, 1944 - April 18, 1944

Allies occupy Rome

June 4, 1944

D-Day, Allied invasion of Normandy

June 6, 1944

Bomb planted by Count von Stafenberg fails to kill Hitler.

July 20, 1944

American forces land on Marianas Islands

July 24, 1944

Americans break through west of St. Lô in Normandy

July 27, 1944

Germans in retreat from Normandy.

August 12, 1944

Allied forces land in southern France

August 15, 1944

Paris liberated by the Allies from the Germans. Rumania declares war on Germany

August 25, 1944

Allies sign armistice with Rumania.

September 13, 1944

Allied forces land in Greece.

October 4, 1944

Americans land in Philippines.

October 19, 1944

Allies sign armistice with Bulgaria.

October 23, 1944

FDR is elected for his fourth term; Harry S Truman as his vice-president.

November 7, 1944

First American night air attack on Tokyo.

November 28, 1944 - November 29, 1944

Battle of the Bulge, the last German offensive in the west

December 16, 1944 - December 26, 1944

Hungary declares war on Germany.

December 30, 1944