Read the remainder of Chapter 25-2 (pages 779 onward)
6. What was D-Day?
D-Day was the first day of invasion, on June 6, 1944.
7. What happened at the Battle of the Bulge?
As the Germans swept westward, they captured 120 American GIs near Malmédy. The SS troopers herded the prisoners into a large field and mowed them down with machine guns and pistols.
8. What did Allied troops find in Germany?
They found a thousand starving prisoners barely alive, the world's largest crematorium, and a storehouse containing 800,000 shoes.
9. What happened to Hitler? What happened to F.D. Roosevelt? Who became U.S. President?
Hitler married Eva Braun and the same day he wrote out his last address to the German people. Hitler shot himself while his new wife swallowed poison.
On April 2nd, 1945, while posing for a portrait in Warm Springs, Georgia, FDR had a stroke and died. The next U.S. president was Harry S. Truman.
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