What was significant about the d-day landing at normandy on june 6, 1944?
a) the 1 coordinated the invasion, which was originally planned to land in calais.
b) french forces took the lead in fighting the war.
c) american forces led the allies in a battle that marked the beginning of the end of the war.
d) a small force defeated a much larger contingent of germans.

The correct answer is C. In the landing at Normandy the American forces led the Allies in a battle that marked the beginning of the end of the war.

The battle of Normandy, codenamed Operation Overlord, was the military operation carried out by the Allies during the Second World War that culminated with the liberation of the territories of Western Europe occupied by Nazi Germany. The operation began on June 6, 1944, better known as D-day, with the Normandy landings; The set of naval operations received the code name of Operation Neptune. An air plane was transported to a line by a thousand aircraft before the amphibious landing, which involved five million ships. On June 6, one hundred and sixty thousand soldiers crossed the Channel from England to France and by the end of August the Allied troops on French soil were more than three million.

The decision to take on an invasion through the English Channel in 1944 was made at the Trident Conference of Washington DC, in May 1943. American General Dwight D. Eisenhower was appointed commander of the Supreme Headquarters of the Allied Expeditionary Force. The chosen place was the coast of the French region of Normandy, where five beaches were selected which were given code names: Utah and Omaha, which would be attacked by the Americans, Sword and Gold, target of the British, and the beach Juno, place of landing of the Canadians.

The Allies didn't achieve the objectives planned for the first day, but they did secure a precarious beachhead that they expanded tenaciously in the following days, with the capture of the port of Cherbourg on June 26 and the city of Caen on the July 21. The German counterattack on August 8 failed and left 50,000 soldiers of the VII Army of the Wehrmacht trapped in the so-called Falaise Pocket. On August 15, the Allies launched an invasion of southern France, Operation Dragoon, and on August 25 the Liberation of Paris took place. German forces withdrew through the Seine river valley on August 30, marking the end of Operation Overlord.

In this way, the German forces began to withdraw towards the German territory, losing strategic positions that gave rise to the Allied invasion of Germany at the end of March 1945, which would end the war on May 9 of that year.

d. japan's attack on pearl harbor