Europe 1944: Normandy Landings
20 June 1944
20 Jun 1944
World War II: Fall of the Third Reich
-27–68 The Julio-Claudian Dynasty
68–96 The Flavian Dynasty
96–192 The Nerva–Antonine Dynasty
192–235 The Severan Dynasty
235–285 The Crisis of the Third Century
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1815–1848 Congress Europe
1848–1850 The Springtime of Peoples
1850–1859 The Crimean War
1859–1862 Italian Unification
1862–1871 German Unification
1871–1914 Imperial Europe
1914–1918 The Great War
1918–1922 Armistice Europe
1922–1939 The Rise of Fascism
1939–1942 World War II: Blitzkrieg
1942–1945 World War II: Fall of the Third Reich
1945–1990 The Cold War
1990–2010 Post-Cold War Europe
2010–pres The Crisis of Europe
Normandy Landings
8 Nov 1942 El Alamein and Operation Torch
22 Nov 1942 Battle of Stalingrad
29 Dec 1942 Failure of Winter Storm
22 Feb 1943 Tunisia Campaign
19 Mar 1943 Aftermath of Stalingrad
12 Jul 1943 Kursk and Sicily
30 Sep 1943 Fall of Mussolini
29 Jan 1944 Soviet Breakthrough
20 Jun 1944 Normandy Landings
30 Aug 1944 Liberation of France
17 Oct 1944 Advance on the Rhine
24 Dec 1944 Liberation of the Balkans
24 Mar 1945 Invasion of Germany
2 May 1945 Fall of Berlin
14 May 1945 German Surrender
13 Jul 1945 Division of Germany and Austria
Despite Allied successes, Western Europe had remained firmly under German control since 1940. By June 1944 the Americans and British were ready to change this, landing 45 000 troops in northern France. The Second Front that Stalin had been demanding since the launch of Barbarossa was open.
