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Battle of Dunkirk
On May 10, 1940, the so-called “phony war” ended decisively when Nazi Germany invaded the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Belgium in a blitzkrieg attack. The Germans occupied Luxembourg on May 10, the Netherlands on May 14 and Belgium by the end of the month. By May 19, General John Gort, had begun to weigh the possibility of evacuating his entire force by sea in order to save them from certain annihilation by the approaching Nazi troops. -
Battle of Moscow
Battle of Moscow, battle fought between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union from September 30, 1941 to January 7, 1942, during World War II. It was the climax of Nazi Germany's Operation Barbarossa, and it ended the Germans' intention to capture Moscow, which ultimately doomed the Third Reich -
Battle of Pearl Harbor
The Battle of Pearl Harbor occurred in December of 1941. The Battle of Pearl Harbor was a surprise aerial attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor on Oahu Island, Hawaii, by the Japanese that precipitated the entry of the United States into World War II. The strike climaxed a decade of worsening relations between the United States and Japan. -
Battle of Midway
The Battle of Midway began early June of 1942. The United States destroyed Japan’s first-line carrier strength and most of its best trained naval pilots. The Battle of Midway ended the threat of further Japanese invasion in the Pacific. -
Battle of Stalingrad
Russians consider the battle to be one of the greatest battles of their Great Patriotic War. Most historians consider this battle to be the greatest battle of the entire conflict. The battle stopped the German advance into the Soviet Union and marked the turning of the tide of war in favor of the Allies. In and around Stalingrad, the Soviets recovered 250,000 German and Romanian corpses. Axis casualties are believed to have been more than 800,000 dead, wounded, missing or captured. -
Battle of Kursk
The battle of Kursk occurred in July of 1943. This battle was an unsuccessful German assault on the Soviet salient around the city of Kursk, in western Russia, during World War II. The salient was a bulge in the Soviet lines that stretched 150 miles from north to south and protruded 100 miles westward into the German lines. In an attempt to recover the offensive on the Eastern Front, the Germans planned a surprise attack on the salient from both north and south -
Battle of Normandy
In midsummer 1943, Hitler's Armed Forces still occupied all the territory it had gained in the blitzkrieg campaigns of 1939–41. In January of 1944 the Allies appointed an invasion commander who was Dwight D. Eisenhower. The invasion was supported by more than 13,000 fighter, bomber, and transport aircraft. Between April 1 and June 5, 1944, the British and American strategic air forces deployed 11,000 aircraft, flew 200,000 sorties, and dropped 195,000 tons of bombs on French rail centres. -
Battle of Bulge
This was one of the bloodiest wars. In this war there were more than 15,000 injuries due to the cold; trench foot, pneumonia and frostbite being some of the injuries. Overall, more than 1 million Allied troops, including around 500,000 Americans, fought in the Battle of the Bulge, with about 19,000 soldiers killed in action, 47,500 wounded and more than 23,000 missing. About 100,000 Germans were killed, wounded or captured. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
This war was a WWII conflict between the United States and the Empire of Japan. A victory for the United States, the battle was one of the bloodiest in the history of the U.S. Marine Corps. The Japanese death toll neared 18,500 soldiers, and around 6,800 U.S. Marines were killed and 19,200 were wounded. There were 27 Medals of Honor that were awarded at the conclusion of the battle. -
Battle of Berlin
one of the final battles of World War II. It took place from April 16 to May 2, 1945, and it ended with the fall of Berlin to the Soviet Red Army, which took revenge for the suffering of the Soviet people since 1941.