World War II Almanac | Turning Points: The Allies Begin to Win the War

• Africa
• Italy: The invasion of Sicily
• The war in Soviet Russia
• A Deal with the Devil?
• The End of Unoccupied France
• A Dictator's Escape
• Slaughter of Former Allies
• Monte Cassino
• Hitler and his Generals
• Trapped by a Name?

Between the fall of 1942 and the summer of 1943, the Allies (the countries fighting Germany) won a series of military victories that changed the course of World War II. One of these victories was in the Atlantic Ocean, which finally forced the German submarines, in May 1943, to abandon their attempt to...