US History › Section N · World War II and the early Cold War › Topic N.3
Victory in Europe
Defeating Nazi Germany took the combined power of the United States, Britain and the Soviet Union, an uneasy alliance of very different nations. This topic follows their strategy and campaigns from North Africa to Berlin, the summits that shaped the postwar world, and the Allied encounter with the Holocaust.
In this topic
- Europe First and the Grand Alliance
- War at sea and in the air
- North Africa: Operation Torch
- Casablanca and the Italian campaign
- The Eastern Front and Tehran
- Worked example: why D-Day succeeded
- Liberation and the Battle of the Bulge
- The Holocaust
- Worked example: judging Yalta
- Germany surrenders
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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