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GREAT BRITAIN took part in Operation Overlord for a number of reasons. One such reason was pressure from other countries. As far
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ADAM JOHNS - 11H - HISTORY COURSEWORK AUGUST/SEPTEMBER 2005 2342 WORDS DOUBLE LINE SPACING THE Allied position in early 1942 seemed unpromising. Hitler still had all the ground he had obtained in his blitzkrieg campaign of the previous five years and was gaining ground in Russia. The Nazis now also had a large foothold in North Africa and were ready to seize the oil fields of Arabia. Without large scale successful intervention by the Western Allies (Great Britain, America and Canada) it looked very likely that Nazi Germany would win the war. 1. GREAT BRITAIN took part in Operation Overlord for a number of reasons. One such reason was pressure from other countries. As far back as early 1942 Josef Stalin, Soviet Union premier, had requested that the Western Allies of Great Britain and America open up a second front in Western Europe to distract the German forces fighting his troops in the East. This...
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