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The Battle of the Yser, 1914
The Germans were trying to take over Belgium Canal Even though Germany took the Canal away from Belgium they were still able to keep their land. They made King Albert a Belgian national hero. That's how they got their contry back together because of King Albert. -
Atlantic
the situation for the Allies remained perilous as German troops rolled through the Balkans and invaded the Soviet Union. Against this backdrop were also American and British concerns that Japan would use the situation in Europe to capture Pacific colonies belonging to the belligerents. -
Britain
The series of aerial combats that took place between British and German aircraft during the autumn of 1940 and that included the severe bombardment of British cities. -
Leningrad (Siege)
Was a prolonged military operation resulting from the failure of the German Army Group North to capture Leningrad—now known as Saint Petersburg—in the Eastern Front theatre of World War II. -
Pearl Harbor
- a harbor near Honolulu, on S Oahu, in Hawaii: surprise attack by Japan on the U.S. naval base and other military installations.
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Midway
American planes based on land and on carriers decisively defeated a Japanese fleet on its way to invade the Midway Islands. -
Operation Barbarossa
Code name for the surprise German attack on the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, which broke the Soviet-Nazi Non-Aggression Pact and plunged the Soviet Union into World War II. -
Guadalcanal Campagin
The island was occupied by the Japanese and later recaptured by American forces. -
Stalingrad
The battle was fought in the winter of 1942–1943 and ended with the surrender of an entire German army. -
Milne Bay
European interest in it increased during the 1889–99 gold rush in the region. Samarai, an island in the China Strait, became a boomtown from which prospectors spread through the islands of Milne Bay and to the mainland. -
Kursk
The German Army relied on armored forces to push through enemy lines at high-speed .This meant they could only assume the offensive during the summer when the Russian continental climate had dried out the ground enough to give tanks a high degree of mobility. -
D-Day
beginning of liberation of Europe: June 6, 1944, the day on which Allied forces landed in northern France to begin the liberation of occupied Europe in World War 1 day when operation is to begin: a day chosen for the beginning of a military operation or other major venture. -
Philippine Sea
Decisive naval victory for the United States fleet over the Japanese who were trying to block supplies from reaching American troops on Leyte. -
Leyte Gulf
An inlet of the western Pacific Ocean in the Philippines south of Samar and east of Leyte. An invasion force led by Gen. Douglas MacArthur decisively defeated the Japanese. -
Operation Torch
Was the British-American invasion of French North Africa in World War II. -
Berlin War
a guarded concrete wall, 28 miles (45 km), with minefields and controlled checkpoints, erected across Berlin by East Germany in 1961 and dismantled in 1989. -
VE-Day
Allies accept Germany’s surrender in WWII. -
Okinawa
In World War II Okinawa, the largest island in the group, was the scene of fierce combat between the Japanese and U.S. Army and Marine forces The islands were returned to the Japanese in. -
VJ-Day
Is when japan surrendered which effectively ended world war 2.
