Before Events of D-Day
There were many events in World War 2 that lead up to D-Day which marked the end of the war.
- More than 100,000 Soldiers marched across Europe to defeat Hitler.
- On the evening of June 5, 1944, a fleet of 5,000 ships and landing craft, 50,000 vehicles, and 11,000 planes sat in southern England, poised to attack secretly across the English Channel along the Normandy coast of France.
- The Phony War occurs: from the winter of 1939-1940, there was a war between Germany and Britain and France where neither side attacked.
- In 1941 Germany invaded the Soviet Union (their former ally and Britain's future ally). This began the bloody struggle on the Eastern Front which continued until the end of the war in 1945.