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Battle of Britain
The Battle of Britain was the Second World War air campaign waged by the German air force against the United Kingdom during the summer and autumn of 1940 because Germany was invading Great Britain. -
Battle of Stalingrad
Stalingrad was a major industrial center in the Volga River. The Germans attacked Stalingrad in August of 1942 and it included some of the bloodiest fighting in the history of warfare because the Soviets refused to let Stalingrad fall. The Germans failed to take the city and the Soviets counterattacked thus trapping 250,000 Axis soldiers. The surviving Axis troops were forced to surrender in early 1943. Stalingrad marked the beginning of the German collapse. 2milgerm. 12milSU -
Battle of the Atlantic
Germany was cuttingoff the US supplies to Britain by lining an area with wolf packs- submarine tacticswhere subs hunt as a group and attack at night. Allied and Axis Powers fought in the Atlantic gap which was where Hitlers wolfpack was found. -
Second Battle of El Alamein
With Allies victorious, it marked a major turning point in the Western Desert Campaign. revived the morale of the Allies, being the first major offensive against the Axis since the start of the European war in 1939 in which the Western Allies had achieved a decisive victory.
The battle coincided with the Allied invasion of French North Africa in Operation Torch, which started 8 November. The operation is also considered to be the end of the 200 days of dread of the Yishuv in the British Man. -
Operation Torch
commander was U.S. lieutenant general Dwight D. Eisenhower. plan called for American forces to invade North African countries (Morocco&Algeria) France had controlled this territory before 1940. Allies hoped to side with France. Kasserine Pass Americans gained combat experience. 20,000 Americans killed or wounder in 6 months in North Africa. may 1943 helped defeat Rommel's forces. -
Invasion of Sicily/Italy
In a month-long campaign commencing on 10 July 1943, in their largest amphibious assault in the war to date, Allied troops defeated Axis forces in Sicily. Operation Husky(codename) launched Italian Campaign. opened the way for the invasion of Italy. -
Operation Overlord
Allies wanted to launch a large invasion of mainland Europe. Allies worked for months to select location and finally settled on the beaches od Normandy in N. France. Allies assembled large huge numbers of troops, weapons, and other equipment necessary for an invasion. Eisenhower commanded the mission and chose General Omar Bradley to lead. British commander was Bernard Montgomery -
Battle of the Bulge
Germans launched a surprise offensive of their own. known a Battle of the Bulge referring to the bulge in the Allied battle lines created by the German advance. for severals days Hitler's forces threatened to win back vital ground, but at the Belgian city of BastogneAmericans clung to survival, surrounded and in below-zero temps. Dec. 26 troops led by George S. Patton arrived to help Americans. symbol of strength and determination. victory close -
Hitler commits suicide
Adolf Hitler killed himself by gunshot on 30 April 1945 in his Führerbunker in Berlin. His wife Eva (née Braun) committed suicide with him by taking cyanide. -
VE Day
mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces. Though food was still rationed, VE day saw street parties throughout the land. end of Adolf Hitler's Reich
