2. INDEX
• Introduction
• Army who participated in World War 2
• operation Overlord
• Causes of the landing
• Responsible for landing
• Number of participants and casualties
• Calais
• offensive strategy
• defensive strategy
• D Day and that meant
• Results of the Second World War
3. INTRODUCTION
• On June 6, 1944 is known
as D-Day and the
Normandy landings, the
day he began to run
Operation Overlord. This
day, when the allied
troops advanced on the
French coast, marked the
beginning of the
liberation of Western
Europe occupied by Nazi
Germany during World
War II.
4. Operation Overlord involving the U.S. military and imperial
British auxiliary troops supported by French, Polish and other
nationalities to storm the beaches of Normandy, through
amphibious landings.
5. ARMYS INVOLVED IN II WORLD WAR
ARMY ALLIED • AXIS
• U.S. • Germany
• France • Japan
• United Kingdom • Bulgaria
• Canada • Croatia
• Poland • Romania
• Belgium • Italy
• Holland
• Greece
• Australia
• Norway
6. OVERLORD OPERATION
• In 1942, in the development of the Second
World War, the Allies were preparing a
massive military onslaught, which would
ground the imperial dreams of Nazi Germany.
Britain was the scene where Operation
Overlord was prepared, which aimed to
eradicate the Nazis on French territory and
move on Germany, meeting with Russian
troops.
7. CAUSES OF LANDING
• Operation Overlord took place because the Nazi
armies and the side of the shaft were invading Europe
• With this landing was intended to free France from the
Nazi armies.
8. Responsible for the Normandy
landings
• Responsible for the
Normandy landings: General
Dwight D. Eisenhower,
commanding general and his
deputies Bedell Smith, Arthur
W. Tedder (Air Marshal),
General Montgomery,
commander of ground forces,
and Air Marshal Sir Trafford L.
Leigh-Mallory, commander of
the Air Force. The landing fleet
is commanded by the admirals
Alan C. Kirk and Philip Vian.
12. CALAIS
• To distract the enemy the Allies
bombed the city of Calais, also
located north of France, to make
them believe that this was the
goal. But this was to install
bridgeheads, to facilitate the
landing and invasion consecente
n. It was feared the German Air
Force, which sought to destroy or
disperse. This last was achieved
bombing German cities, which
led to their planes, weakening the
protection n Normandie, where
they were three hundred.
13. LANDING OF OFFENSIVE STRATEGY
• enemy defenses installed on the slopes of the
coast are easily exploited by the artillery of the
warships. With scanning planes, the bombing
may extend over the batteries located offshore.
And the latter are an excellent target for aerial
bombardment. For the landing area was divided
into five beaches of Normandy or zones of
influence, which from west to east are named
with the code names Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno
and Sword. Previously, the Allies bombed Calais
to make the Germans believe that this was his
goal.
14.
15. DEFENSIVE STRATEGY OF NORMANDY
• The view of the defending army is built with
modest pockets on the sides and equipped with
machine guns and medium range artillery can
beat perfectly to advancing troops on the beach if
they landed at low tide, and landing craft that
come at high tide. Heavy artillery installed up to
10 miles behind the coast, but united by
telephone with observation posts high in the hills
above the beach, you can beat with equal
perfection the beach. This made it clear to the
commanders of both sides that the landing stage
was bound to be very bloody
16. JUNE 6: D DAY
• The battle began at dawn on June
6, 1944, when American
paratroopers of the 82nd and 101st
Airborne Divisions and British
special forces carried in gliders
managed to get behind the first
German defensive line, preventing
the rapid arrival of German
reinforcements, since much of the
German defense force had been
away from the coast due to heavy
bombardments by the Allies during
the previous days. The aim was to
destroy roads and enemy artillery.
• The operation ended on June 30,
1944.
17. American soldiers, British and Canadians landed on the beaches with
codenames. This landing took just over 100,000 soldiers of the First U.S.
Army, 58,000 soldiers and 17,000 British Army IV Army soldiers from
Canada. At nightfall the beachhead was taken during the following
weeks and thousands of Allied soldiers landed.
18. CONSEQUENCES OF D-DAY
• Contributed to the liberation
of France on August 19, 1944,
when Allied troops crossed the
Seine and caused the decline
of German soldiers.
• In this operation fell
thousands of soldiers, but was
greater the number of Allied
soldiers who lost their lives.
• It meant the Union forces
from different countries to
defeat the Nazi army.
• The surprise element of this
landing was what led to
success.
20. • The Second World War saw the most far-
reaching transformation of world politics to
date. The destructive technologies introduced
during the war – foremost, the atomic bomb –
made it very unlikely that a land-based conflict
of similar scale and duration among the major
nations could ever happen again, because of
the potential for total destruction of all
combatants.
21. No advanced industrial nation has
been invaded since 1945, and all wars
since that time have either been
guerrilla conflicts in less-developed
countries, conflicts involving less-
developed countries with more
advanced ones, or some combination
of these two scenarios.
24. • During the final stages of World War II in 1945,
the Allies of World War II conducted two atomic
bombings against the cities of Hiroshima and
Nagasaki in Japan. These two events are the only
use of nuclear weapons in war to date. Within
the first two to four months of the bombings, the
acute effects killed 90,000–166,000 people in
Hiroshima and 60,000–80,000 in Nagasaki, with
roughly half of the deaths in each city occurring
on the first day. The Hiroshima prefecture health
department estimated that, of the people who
died on the day of the explosion, 60% died from
flash or flame burns, 30% from falling debris and
10% from other causes.
25. • During the following months, large numbers
died from the effect of burns, radiation
sickness, and other injuries, compounded by
illness. In a U.S. estimate of the total
immediate and short term cause of death, 15–
20% died from radiation sickness, 20–30%
from burns, and 50–60% from other injuries,
compounded by illness. In both cities, most of
the dead were civilians, although Hiroshima
had a sizeable garrison.
