es. Germans started to go deep inside Russia. Russian army retreat most battles. But in Stalingrad the Russian army, known as the Red Army, would not retreat. In result, they forced the Germans out of their country. The battle cost Germany about 200,000 troops. In North Africa the British, who in 194041 had defeated much larger Italian forces, were locked in a seesaw battle with the German Afrika Korps. In November 1942 the first Allied offensive began with U.S. and British landings in North Africa. German forces were gradually squeezed into Tunisia and were finally eliminated in May 1943.The Midway, Stalingrad, and North African battles were the turning point to the Allied forces. They had weakened all Axis forces and could plan a final attack. Since the Axis the were vulnerable would be easy to take them down. The first Axis power to fall was Italy. Three American, one Canadian, and three British divisions landed on Sicily on July 10. They pushed across the island from beachheads on the south coast in five weeks, against four Italian and two German divisions, and overcame the last Axis resistance on August 17. In the meantime, Mussolini had been stripped of power on July 25, and the Italian government had entered into negotiations that resulted in an armistice signed in secret on September 3 and made public on September 8. Allied Forces went deep in Italy until October 12 when the a German division stop them miles away from Rome. But the division was easily beat by the Allies and Italy was no longer a Axis power. Germany was meanwhile preparing for an expected Allied invasion of western Europe. The invasion came on June 6, 1944, called the D-Day, on the beaches of Normandy in northern France, where 156,000 British, Canadian, and U.S. troops under the command of the U.S. general Dwight D. Eisenhower were landed. With command of the air the Allies quickly consolidated their foothold and began the advance eastward that ended in the occu...
