Allied victories

1942-1943

In November 1942 Zhukov gave the order to attack the flanks in front of Stalingrad troops surround the enemy that is fenced in the city, is the Operation Uranus. This year the allied air attacks on Europe controlled by the axis increases. In July Hitler tries to regain the initiative on the eastern front in attacking Russian Kurst protrusion. The Russians know German intentions, so concentrate their forces in the area. The biggest battle of tanks of the story will end in tables. Then in August, the Russians trigger a major counterattack on the south by the general overflowing the German lines. At the same time the Allied forces land and invade Sicily, is an Operation Husk. Since this operation will highlight the performance and charisma of the American General Patton. Given the new situation, clearly unfavorable for Germany and its allies, General Franco decides to change its international status in November 1943, officially changes from "non-belligerent" (situation in which Spain was considered allied to Germany but put off its entry into the war for the future) to "neutral" so that Spain tries to approach the other side, predictable winner of the war. On April 44 stops sending Spain tungsten to Germany under pressure from allies, will deal a heavy blow to the German armament industry.In November 1943, Allied leaders met in Tehran. Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill agree to open a new front in Western Europe to relieve pressure on the Soviet army.

1944

During the first half of 1944 following the German inexorable decline. In the Balkans you have to deal with the guerrillas General Titus, who in December 1943 created a provisional government in their Communist guerrillas controlled territories. In Italy, between January and May 1944, taking place battles Monte Casino and Anzio, the German defeats allow entry of the allies in Rome in June. In September, at the end of these two operations, both the Western Front as the Eastern match the own borders of Germany before the war. An allied forces advancing from the north by France, are joined by reinforcements unload in Provence with the operation Dragoon. On August 25 release Paris and Brussels in September. Between December 1944 and January of the following year, the Germans give their last gasp, the Battle of the Bulge. In an attempt defeat the Allies on the western front, the lack of fuel and the stubborn American resistance prevents it. During this campaign a slaughter of American prisoners of war at Malmedy occurs.

1945

In 1945 Germany is struggling to survive on its own territory. The Russians enter East Prussia and Poland, taking Warsaw in January and releasing the Auschwitz concentration camp. In March the Western Allies made the Varsity operation, the largest airborne action of the story, after this passes to Rin and advance unopposed for the heart of Germany. In April we attended the recent military events in Europe. The Allies take Vienna and achieve the surrender of the Ruhr Army Group under General Model, also release fields Buchenwald and Bergen-Belsen. The Russians for their part launched a final offensive against Berlin. After a month of street fighting, Berlin fell. Surprise Japanese forces in Manchuria, they do not offer resistance.During 1945, they are reaching several agreements. That same month at the San Francisco conference the UN was founded, which will become a major forum Mussolini was executed by partisans while trying to flee to Switzerland, Hitler commits suicide to avoid that fate on April 30 along with Eva Braun, with whom he married a few hours earlier. Before dying appoints successor Admiral Karl Doenitz, who signed the German capitulation on 8th May.In Asia, the war will last more. Japan decided to use the atomic bomb and thus double the Japanese resistance. The pumps used are the result of over two years of project workManhattan. The first dropped on 6th August in Hiroshima, the second on 9th August in Nagasaki, Soviet Simultaneously report their non-aggression pact and attack by international politics. After the German surrender allied leaders meet again in Potsdam, near Berlin. This time attends H. Truman as president of US At this meeting the Soviet intervention against Japan is decided, the new frontiers of Germany are set also decide to perform acts of "denazification" of the German population, and the prosecution of Nazi leaders for war crimes.