North+Africa+Campaign

North Africa Campaign
There were many generals that were involved in the North Africa Campaign but the three most important were Mussolini, Hitler, and General Rommel. Mussolini. Mussolini sent out Italian troops to the north of the Suez Canal to attack the British force that were in the south side of the Suez Canal. Hitler helped out by giving some tanks to help the Italian Army. General Rommel or "Desert Fox" was a German General that was assigned this mission to lead the Italian army into a battlefront with Britain. They at first won and were able to get enough oil supply. Then the British militia came back and fought another round with the Italian forces and won. They kept on fighting back and forth until one side came to victory.

Britsh tank coming to attack Italian forces.

Between 1940-1943 a series of battles and missions where fought in northern Africa. The main battles where fought in the deserts of north Africa. This campaign was a huge event in the war as a defining moment of the war. The control over north Africa for the Axis powers was the control over the Mediterranean ,and the oil fields in the middle east. This would give them much power over trade and more oil for their tanks and other machines. This would also then cut off oil to the Allied nations crippling them in war. To the Allied (which won over north Africa in the end) it allowed them to control the Mediterranean for trade. More importantly it was a new front on the Axis powers. This new front allowed them to surround Germany through Italy which was the “soft underbelly” of Europe. This might have been the biggest thing in the war that allowed the allied powers to win. 

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