The most logical place in Europe for the D-Day invasion was France's Pas de Calais region, 150 miles northeast of Normandy and the closest point to Great Britain across the English Channel.
The U.S. was trying to "contain" the spread of Communism and the Soviet Union wanted to expand it so violence in places like Korea, Vietnam, and Cuba all came from this tension with Democracy and Communism, along with a multitude of other things.
