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G.I.
• More than 16million Americans served in WWII
• They were called G.I.s which meant “Government Issue”
American Diversity
• 300,000 Mexican Americans• 25,000 Native Americans i.e. “code talkers”• Nearly 1 million African Americansi.e. Tuskegee Airmen• 350,000 women
D-Day
• D-Day- The invasion of Western Europe • June 6, 1944- 4,600 invasion craft and
warships moved across the English Channel
• 1,000 Royal Air Force bombers bombed German defense at Normandy
• 23,000 airborne parachuted behind enemy lines
• 150,000 Allied troops landed in Normandy, France
• Allies experienced heavy casualties
Pushing back the Nazis
• 1944- Nazis begin to loose numerous battles
• The Nazis are pushed back to the original German boundaries
• Battle of the Bulge- The German counterattack on the allies that pushed the lines back