Back in the late 1930’s WWII started. The United States was a neutral country. The United States was neutral because they were in a depression and still recovering money from the first World War. They started sending supplies to Great Britain. Even though the United States were neutral, war was coming and no one could stop it. The United States would only remain neutral for about 2 years after Germany invaded Poland.

On December 7, 1941 the Japanese bombed the American Naval base in Pearl Harbor. After that President Roosevelt asked the Congress to declare war on Japan. Two days later Germany and Italy declared war on the United States of America. The Americans were no longer neutral, they were a part of this war.

Soon after the Americans joined the Allies in World War Two President Roosevelt meet with his chiefs of staff and they decided t

The decision of attacking Germany was made at the Eureka Conference. At the conference FDR and the Prime Minister of England decided they would invade Europe across the English Channel. The British were a little hesitant at first on making the decision for invading. Their Target was France. The Americans would invade Utah and Omaha Beach, the British would invade Gold and Sword Beach, and the Canadians would invade Juno Beach. Stalin, the leader of the Russia agreed to attack Germany at the same time Britain, American, and Canada invaded France. After that was all straight, the Allies started planning the invasion. The Americans went through a few different operations before they invaded Europe. There was many things the Allies had to do to prepare for operation Overlord, so they organized them as different operations.

The Americans started bringing troops to England in 1942. They also had troops in Ireland all through out the war.

In June 1944 Operation Bolero was complete. On D-Day the Allies had over 1,700,000 British troops, over 1,500,000 American troops, and 175,000 Canadian troops. There was also about 40,000 other Allied troops from other countries. There was over 1,300 warships, 1,600 merchant ships, and 4,000 landing ships that were available to the Allies. There was also 13,000 aircraft, 5000 fighters, 4,000 bombers, and 3,500 gliders.

The American General, Dwight D. Eisenhower was mostly in charge of the operations and plans for the battles. He knew that if they went on with the operation there was no turning back. Operation Sledgehammer was a landing at Cherbourg. It led to the developing of Operation Roundup, it was a big invasion of Pas de

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