D-Day Invasion or Operation Overlord: History, Timelines and Map | Past to Future

Operation Overlord or D-Day | Past to Future This video presents Operation Overlord or best known today as D-Day - the Allied invasion of Normandy during World War II. By June 1940, France had fallen to the Nazis and Adolf Hitler was gloating over it as “the most famous victory in history.” With more than 300,000 British troops evacuating from the beaches of Dunkirk, in a famous speech, the British Prime Minister Winston Churchill vowed to liberate France from Nazi Germany. A year later, the German invasion against Russia made the Soviets become one of the Britain allies. Six month after that, American entered the war in an attempt to win it. Two preliminary proposals were drawn up: Operation Sledgehammer and Operation Roundup. The latter was adopted but delayed due to the Allied invasion of French North Africa in November 1942, the invasion of Sicily in the following year, and Italy in two months after that. In December 1943, at the Tehran Conference in Iran, Roosevelt and Stalin combined against Churchi