1 / 5

From D-Day to VE-Day

From D-Day to VE-Day. The End of the War. July 24, 1944: Soviet troops liberate first concentration camp at Majdanek .

iria
Download Presentation

From D-Day to VE-Day

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. From D-Day to VE-Day

  2. The End of the War • July 24, 1944: Soviet troops liberate first concentration camp at Majdanek. • November 22, 1944: After heavy losses in front-line infantry units serving in Northwest Europe and Italy, Ottawa authorized the dispatch of 16,000 home defence conscripts overseas. • 16 December 1944 – 25 January 1945: The Battle of the Bulge – Hitler’s last ditch effort to stop the advancing American Army. He almost succeeds but the Americans held him off in terrible conditions. • January 26, 1945 - Soviet troops liberate Auschwitz. • February 13/14, 1945 - Dresden is destroyed by a firestorm after Allied bombing raids.

  3. The End of the War • April 21, 1945 - Soviets reach Berlin. • April 28, 1945 - Mussolini is captured and hanged by Italian citizens; Allies take Venice. • April 30, 1945 - Adolf Hitler commits suicide. • May 5, 1945: The Netherlands is finally liberated from Nazi control, with a large Canadian contribution. • May 7, 1945 - Unconditional surrender of all German forces to Allies. Its called VE Day.

More Related