Why and how was D-Day a major turning point in World War 2?
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2014-07-23 16:00:31
It opened a second front against Hitlers Germany, taking some
pressure off of the Red army, allowing them to make faster inroads
into Germany. It allowed the full force (not just air power) of the
US and Britain to engage the enemy, bringing them to total
destruction. Answer It isn't by all, and it should also be
remembered that D-Day is primarily important just for the European
Theater of Operations, though certainly it did have ramifications
for the war in the Pacific. Previous attempts at creating a second
front in Italy and North Africa, though successful in driving out
the Germans (albeit very slowly and costly in Italy) had failed to
divert a significant amount of Wehrmacht forces from the Eastern
Front where the most brutal and vast majority of the fighting in
the European Theater was going on (actually, most people would
probably say the turning point of the war was the Battle of
Stalingrad). The invasion of Northern, and subsequent invasion of
Southern France forced the Wehrmacht to take the
American/British/French threat seriously and divert large forces to
guarding their Western frontiers, which of course made defending
themselves against the oncoming Soviet hoards basically
impossible.
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