5. Overlord Marked the Beginning of the Long-awaited Second Front Against the Nazi
The Western Allies had one main war agenda from as early as 1941: to defeat Germany. This would liberate France and lessen the pressure the Soviet Union was experiencing on the east. Germany was a great bother to the West, and the Allies wanted to block its access to key military sites. With a bridgehead in Normandy, the Western Allies would establish a viable foothold in northern Europe, for the very first time since 1940.