Western Front (World War II)
military theatre of World War II encompassing Denmark, Norway, Luxembourg, Belgium, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, France, Italy, and Germany / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Western Front of World War II was a theatre in which Germany invaded most of Western Europe in 1940, and where the western allies liberated most of Western Europe between 1944 and 1945. (The Italian Front is a separate but related front).
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Part of World War II | |||||||
Cheering crowds at the liberation of Paris | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
Canada United States (from 1941) France Poland Belgium Netherlands Luxembourg Norway Czechoslovakia (and others) Italy (from 1943) Denmark (1940) |
Italy (until 1943) Hungary (Citation needed) Vichy France | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Harry S. Truman Władysław Raczkiewicz [en] |
Philippe Pétain |
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