Starting with the Invasion of Sicily in July of 1943, and culminating in the June 6, 1944, D-Day invasion of Normandy, Allied forces took the fight to the Axis powers in many locations across Western Europe. The push into Italy began in Sicily, but soon made it to the Italian mainland, with landings in the south. The Italian government (having recently ousted Prime Minister Benito Mussolini) quickly signed an armistice with the Allies -- but German forces dug in and set up massive defensive lines across Italy, prepared to halt any armed push to the north. After several major offensives, the Allies broke through and captured Rome on June 4, 1944. Two days later on D-Day, the largest amphibious invasion in history took place. Nearly 200,000 Allied troops boarded 7,000 ships and more than 3,000 aircraft and headed toward Normandy. Some 156,000 troops landed on the French beaches , 24,000 by air and the rest by sea, where they met stiff resistance from well-defended German positions across 50 miles of French coastline. After several days of intense warfare, Allied troops gained tenuous holds on several beaches, and they were able to dig in with reinforcements and bombardment. By the end of June, Allies were in firm control of Normandy, and on August 25, Paris was liberated by the French Resistance with help from the French Forces of the Interior and the U.S. 4th Infantry Division. In September, the Allies launched another major invasion, Operation Market Garden, the largest airborne operation of its time, in which tens of thousands of troops descended on the Netherlands by parachute and glider. Though the landings were successful, troops on the ground were unable to take and hold their targets, including bridges across the Rhine River. Despite that setback, by late 1944, the Allies had successfully established a Western Front and were preparing to advance on Germany. (This entry is Part 16 of a weekly 20-part retrospective of World War II)
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Philosopher and theologian saint thomas Aquinas was born circa 1225 in Roccesesa in Italy combining the theological principles of faith with the philosopher principles of reasons he ranked among the most influential thinkers of medieval scholasticism
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The correct sentence is C. " Mass immigration into the United States began in the 1830s, when many Irish, Germans, and Scandinavians arrived. "
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Sentence "A" incorrectly implies that the arrival ofIrish, German, and Scandinavian immigrants is merely an example andnot the main cause of the mass immigration of the 1830s;
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incorrectly implies that the arrival of Irish, German, and Scandinavianimmigrants was somehow contrary to the beginning of mass immigrationin the 1830s.
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Cook's discoveries expanded the possessions of England and its colonial trade, and also had great scientific significance. The main purpose of the expedition - the discovery of the Northwest Passage - was not achieved. Hawaiian Islands, Christmas Island, and some other islands were discovered. In 1888, Christmas Island was annexed by Britain.
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However, in its significance, the third expedition was inferior to the two previous ones. However, this is not because its main goal was not realized – to find Northwest Passage (this passage was found as a result of the work of numerous expeditions many years after the death of Cook). The main fields of activity of the third expedition were the seas already ‘mastered’ by Russian sailors and industrialists, and, therefore, the discoveries made in the North Pacific by Cook were inferior in scale to the discoveries of the first and second trips, as a result of which the east coast of Australia was laid on world maps and mythical southern mainland was erased from them. The most significant contribution of the third expedition to geographical science was the discovery of the Hawaiian Islands, which in many respects determined the further development of Northern Oceania. In addition, Cook specified the contours of the southern coast of Alaska, discovered by Bering and Chirikov, and on the western shores of this huge peninsula, he opened the Gulf of Bristol and Norton Bay. The guesses of the Russian navigators and cartographers about the likely shape of the eastern shores of the Bering Sea were fully confirmed, and it turned out that from the extreme northwestern tip of America discovered by I. Fedorov and M. Gvozdev to the tip of the saber-shaped peninsula of Alaska, the coast stretches continuously. The ships of the third expedition twice passed through the Bering Strait, and Cook in August 1778 marked the beginning of discoveries on the northern coast of Alaska.
