World War II European Theater Prelude November 1942

World War II European Theater Prelude & November 1942 -May 1945

1933 3 rd Reich 03/36 Rhineland 03/38 Austria 09/38 Sudetenland 03/39 Czechoslovakia 04/39 Albania 09/39 Poland 09/40 Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria 04/40 France defense 04/40 Denmark 04/40 Norway 05/40 Netherlands, Belgium 06/40 France 07 -10/40 Britain 10/40 Italy->Greece 04/41 Greece, Yugoslavia 05/41 Crete 06 -12/41 Russia

11/42 Morocco, Algeria 11/42 So. France, Corsica 11/42 Tunisia 02/43 Kasserine Pass, Tunisia 08/43 Sicily 09/43 Southern Italy 10/43 Gustav Line 11/43 Russia to Dnieper River Montgomery 515 th Army Grp Clark Western Task Force Center Task Force Alexander Eastern Task Force 1 th Abn Div 7 1 8 Montgomery Patton 15 th Army Grp Alexander

12/43 Montgomery 21 st Fall 43 8 th from England 15 th from Italy 01/44 Anzio attempt 02/44 Anzio counter-attack 02/44 German aircraft industry 01 -04/44 Soviet Spring Offensive 05/44 Rome 06/44 Normandy 3 rd Airborne 06/44 Operation Overlord 06 -11/44 North Italy 8 21 th Army Grp Montgomery 1 2 15 th Army Grp Alexander 5 Clark 815 Montgomery 15 th Army Grp Alexander

07/44 8 th, 9 th AF; 1 st Army 08/44 Bradley’s 12 th Army 08/44 Patton’s 3 rd Army, Paris 08/44 7 th Army Southern France 08/44 Russians to Warsaw 09/44 France 09/44 Netherlands 08 -12/44 Russians thru Balkans 12/44 German “West Wall” 8 21 th Army Grp Montgomery 2 1 21 th Army Grp Montgomery 9 2 1 9 112 th Army Grp Bradley 3 12 th Army Grp Bradley 6 th Army Grp Devers 1 7 5 8 15 th Army Grp Alexander Clark 15

12/44 Ardennes Offensive 12/44 Battle of the Bulge (1) 12/44 Patton’s 3 rd Army from South 01 -02/45 Battle of the Bulge (2) 01 -04/45 Hungary and Austria 03/45 Rhineland Campaign 03/45 Crossing the Rhine 03 -05/45 Germany & Italy 05/45 Soviets take Berlin 8 1 21 th Army Grp Montgomery 12 th Army Grp 2 1 9 1 Bradley 3 7 6 th Army Grp Devers 1 5 8 15 th Army Grp Clark 15

U. S. Sector British Sector Soviet Sector French Sector All 4 Powers divide Berlin