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n. The Anti-Hitler Coalition «The Spirit of the Elbe» . The monument to the countries-participants of the anti-Hitler coalition in Moscow Compiled by Marina V. Semenova Tatyana V. Semenova

The Anti-Hitler Coalition (the Allies) – unification of peoples and states fighting with the Axis (Germany, Italy, Japan) & their satellites during the WWII (1939 -1945). On July 12, 1941 Soviet-British agreement about joint actions in war against Germany was signed. American WWII Time poster: ”This man is your friend – Russian – he fights for freedom. On August 14, 1941 during the Atlantic Conference “Riviera” on the Naval base in Newfoundland the Atlantic Charter was signed by W. Churchill and F. D. Roosevelt. On September 24, 1941 the USSR and some other countries joined it to work together to make the world free from war.

n. Lend-Lease Act On March 1941 US Congress passed Lend – Lease Act – provision of assistance to the Allies. Delivery was made via the northern ports of (Murmansk, Archangelsk), via Iran and the Far East. Allies send to the USSR 22 thousand planes, 13 thousand tanks, 427 thousand trucks. «Studebakers» - American trucks used for transportation “Katyusha” – missile weaponry

n. Operation «Overlord» Operation “Overlord” was the code name for the Battle of Normandy. The day of the invasion, June 5, 1944, went down into history as D Day. Soldiers of the Allied Army under the command of American general Eisenhower landed in Normandy. 2. 9 mln. allies soldiers from the USA, Great Britain, Canada, France, Poland other nations, 10 thsd. planes and more than 1000 military ships took part in it. The Allies conducted Operations Bodyguard and Fortitude to mislead the Germans about the date and location of the landing. Dummy tanks, planes, trucks and landing crafts were constructed.

Elbe Day On April 25, 1945 Soviet and American troops met at the River Elbe, near Torgau in Germany. This contact between the Soviets advancing from the East, and the Americans, advancing from the West, meant that the two powers had effectively cut Germany in two. In 1961 the popular Russian song “Do the Russians Want War? ” evoked the memory of American and Russian soldiers embracing at the Elbe River. O, do the Russians long for war? Ask of the stillness evermore, Ask of the field, or ask the breeze, And ask the birch and poplar trees. Not only at their country's call Did Russian soldiers fight and fall; They died that men from ev'ry shore Might live without the fear of war. Ask of the soldiers who now lie Beneath the birch trees and the sky, And let their sons tell you once more Whether the Russians long for war. Ask those who fought, and those erased, Ask those who at the Elbe you embraced. These monuments are only for To show if Russians long for war. Torgau memorial Memorial in Arlington

The Yalta conference 4– 11 February 1945 The Potsdam conference 17 July — 2 August 1945 Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin in Yalta. Clement Attlee, Harry Truman, Josef Stalin at the Potsdam conference. On the 9 th of May 2010 the countries of anti-Hitler coalition took part in the Victory parade in Red Square, Moscow for the first time in history