[b][size=29][center]Allies close in (ww2)[/center]
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Allied [/size][url=https://algassania2.mam9.com/wiki/Invasion_of_Normandy][u][size=25][color:7883=#0000ff]Invasion of Normandy[/u][/color][/size][/url][size=25].
On June 6, 1944 (known as [/size][url=https://algassania2.mam9.com/wiki/D-Day][u][size=25][color:7883=#0000ff]D-Day[/u][/color][/size][/url][size=25]), the Western Allies [/size][url=https://algassania2.mam9.com/wiki/Battle_of_Normandy][u][size=25][color:7883=#0000ff]invaded northern France[/u][/color][/size][/url][size=25] and, after reassigning several Allied divisions from Italy, [/size][url=https://algassania2.mam9.com/wiki/Operation_Dragoon][u][size=25][color:7883=#0000ff]southern France[/u][/color][/size][/url][size=25];[/size][url=https://algassania2.mam9.com/l%20cite_note-146][u][size=25][color:7883=#0000ff][147][/u][/color][/size][/url][size=25] by August 25, Paris was [/size][url=https://algassania2.mam9.com/wiki/Liberation_of_Paris][u][size=25][color:7883=#0000ff]liberated[/u][/color][/size][/url][size=25].[/size][url=https://algassania2.mam9.com/l%20cite_note-147][u][size=25][color:7883=#0000ff][148][/u][/color][/size][/url][size=25] During the latter part of the year, the Western Allies continued to [/size][url=https://algassania2.mam9.com/wiki/Allied_advance_from_Paris_to_the_Rhine][u][size=25][color:7883=#0000ff]push back German forces[/u][/color][/size][/url][size=25] in western Europe, and in Italy ran into the [/size][url=https://algassania2.mam9.com/wiki/Gothic_Line][u][size=25][color:7883=#0000ff]last major defensive line[/u][/color][/size][/url][size=25].
On June 22, the Soviets launched a strategic offensive in Belarus (known as [/size][url=https://algassania2.mam9.com/wiki/Operation_Bagration][u][size=25][color:7883=#0000ff]Operation Bagration[/u][/color][/size][/url][size=25]) that resulted in the almost complete destruction of the German Army Group Centre.[/size][url=https://algassania2.mam9.com/l%20cite_note-148][u][size=25][color:7883=#0000ff][149][/u][/color][/size][/url][size=25] Soon after that, [/size][url=https://algassania2.mam9.com/wiki/Lvov-Sandomierz_Offensive][u][size=25][color:7883=#0000ff]another Soviet major strategic offensive[/u][/color][/size][/url][size=25] forced the German troops from Ukraine and Eastern Poland. Major assaults against [/size][url=https://algassania2.mam9.com/wiki/Fourth_strategic_offensive][u][size=25][color:7883=#0000ff]Finland[/u][/color][/size][/url][size=25] and [/size][url=https://algassania2.mam9.com/wiki/Ia%C5%9Fi-Chi%C5%9Fin%C4%83u_Offensive][u][size=25][color:7883=#0000ff]Romania[/u][/color][/size][/url][size=25] resulted in great successes, with Bulgaria, Romania and [/size][url=https://algassania2.mam9.com/wiki/Moscow_Armistice][u][size=25][color:7883=#0000ff]Finland signing armistices[/u][/color][/size][/url][size=25] with the Soviet Union,[/size][url=https://algassania2.mam9.com/l%20cite_note-149][u][size=25][color:7883=#0000ff][150][/u][/color][/size][/url][size=25] and prompted [/size][url=https://algassania2.mam9.com/wiki/Armia_Krajowa][u][size=25][color:7883=#0000ff]Polish resistance forces[/u][/color][/size][/url][size=25] to [/size][url=https://algassania2.mam9.com/wiki/Operation_Tempest][u][size=25][color:7883=#0000ff]initiate several uprisings in Poland[/u][/color][/size][/url][size=25], though the largest of these, in [/size][url=https://algassania2.mam9.com/wiki/Warsaw_Uprising][u][size=25][color:7883=#0000ff]Warsaw[/u][/color][/size][/url][size=25], was conducted without expected Soviet assistance and put down by German forces.[/size][url=https://algassania2.mam9.com/l%20cite_note-150][u][size=25][color:7883=#0000ff][151][/u][/color][/size][/url][size=25] On October, the Soviets launched a massive assault against [/size][url=https://algassania2.mam9.com/wiki/Operation_Panzerfaust][u][size=25][color:7883=#0000ff]Germany occupied[/u][/color][/size][/url] [url=https://algassania2.mam9.com/wiki/Budapest_Offensive][u][size=25][color:7883=#0000ff]Hungary[/u][/color][/size][/url][size=25] that lasted until [/size][url=https://algassania2.mam9.com/wiki/Battle_of_Budapest][u][size=25][color:7883=#0000ff]the fall of Budapest[/u][/color][/size][/url][size=25] in February 1945
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