North Africa:
Notes
-reasons for fighting here:
-the Suez canal
-oil in the middle east
-Bernard Montgomery an his desert rats fought:
-Rommel and the African corps
-they in a turning point battle at al elamein in 1942 NUTS
-prevent the Germans from the suez and oil and shows the Germans best troops could be beaten
-Americans join in 1942 under Dwight D. Eisnhower
-the Suez canal
-oil in the middle east
-Bernard Montgomery an his desert rats fought:
-Rommel and the African corps
-they in a turning point battle at al elamein in 1942 NUTS
-prevent the Germans from the suez and oil and shows the Germans best troops could be beaten
-Americans join in 1942 under Dwight D. Eisnhower
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Summary
The fighting Africa was essential it kept the Germans away for the oil that they desperately needed for their armies.
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"My first day in the desert had been a very good one, though long and tiring. I'm afraid that it was with an insubordinate smile that I fell asleep: I was issuing orders to an army which someone else reckoned he commanded!" -Montgomery
Subjunctive Question
If the Germans had taken control of Africa has well would their have been a different outcome to the war or would it of ended the same way (with the allies winning)?