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European Theater Battles

  • Battle of Britain

    Battle of Britain
    Battle of Britain, during World War II, the successful defense of Great Britain against unremitting and destructive air raids conducted by the German air force (Luftwaffe) from July through September 1940, after the fall of France.
  • Operation Barbarossa

    Operation Barbarossa
    Operation Barbarossa was the code name for the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union, which started on Sunday, 22 June 1941, during World War II. The operation put into action Nazi Germany's ideological goal of conquering the western Soviet Union so as to repopulate it with Germans.
  • Operation Torch

    Operation Torch
    Operation Torch was the Anglo-American invasion of French Morocco and Algeria during the North African Campaign of World War II. Eisenhower, the operation was designed as a pincer movement with American landings at Morocco's Atlantic coast and Anglo-American landings on Algeria's Mediterranean coast.
  • Operation Overlord

    Operation Overlord
    Operation Overlord was the codename for the Battle of Normandy, the Allied operation that launched the successful invasion of German-occupied Western Europe during World War II. The operation was launched on 6 June 1944 with the Normandy landings.
  • Yalta Conference

    Yalta Conference
    The Yalta Conference, also known as the Crimea Conference and code-named Argonaut, held February 4–11, 1945, was the World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union to discuss the postwar reorganization of Germany and Europe.