What was the importance of the invasion of the Normandy?

Answer 1

It forced the Germans to fight on TWO fronts. In the east against the Russian army, and in the west against the Allies. Eventually, the Germans were forced back into their own territory, where they were finally defeated, by the two Allied armies that surrounded the German army.It opened yet another front on Germany and liberated the European counties. The three fronts where Russian to the east, Italian to the south and France to the West. It also stopped the Red army of Russia to take over the whole of Germany and possibly some of the low counties as well. If this happened the world we live in now would be a different place.

Answer 2

It opened a new battlefront which eased the burden on the Soviets.

AnswerThe allies (even if they landed i.e. in Sicily, too) didn't have any secured base on the European continent at that time... (Soviet zones in the east excluded). To enforce the Soviet-movement by attacking the German controlled territory from west was crucial. But the Germans and their allies had strong defence forces everywhere (well, of course, the territory is large, and defence varied). To put down resistance on some territory in Western Europe, invade there and build up a ressource net was absolutely vital... without this, perhaps Soviets would have won the war all by themselves, as D-Day happened only in 1944... but the western allies didn't want to loose everything to the Russians (just to mention it by the way). The operation was huge and long-time-planned... if it had been unsuccessful... what a disastrous event for the western allies, then!

Answer 3

The Normandy invasion was a major turning point in WWII and it was the beginning of the liberation of western Europe. Thousands of Allied fighting men stormed five beaches and were able to gain a foothold in France and drive the Germans out. Casualties were extremely high and there was no guarantee that the invasion might be beaten back into the sea. The Germans were very tenacious warriors and the beachhead was secured at a very high cost to the Allies. The Normandy invasion began a second front as well. The Germans now had to deal with fighting the Soviet Union in the east and the British and Americans as well as the French Resistance in the west. This put a terrific strain on the Nazi war machine.

Answer 4

It allowed the Allies to get troops into Europe (Mainly France, which had been taken over by the Germans) and start to retake Europe and Help the Russians fight the Germans, who had begun to invade Russia.

Answer 5

it succeeded in puncturing German defenses in Western Europe

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Answer 6

to gain a foothold so allied forces could free France of German forces and then pushed on to Germany.....................................

Answer 7

It was the initial Allied invasion of continental Europe.

Answer 8

It gave the Allies a foothold in Europe. So began the push to drive the Germans back towards Germany, their capital Berlin and defeat.

Answer 9

That is where we stormed into on D-Day.