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Battle of the Bulge
Combatants: Germany, United Kingdom ,United States
Casualties: US lost approximately 19,000 men, UK lost 1,400 casualties with 200 killed and Germany lost 120,000 people
Leaders:General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Hitler, and Sir Winston Churchill
Outcome:The Allies won the Battle of the Bulge. -
Battle of Dunkirk
Combatants: the Allies and Nazi Germany
Casualties: around 22,000 allied troops and around 20,000 german troops
Leaders: Hitler, Churchill, and Paul Reynaud
Outcome: Germany won -
Battle of Moscow
Combatants:Germany and Soviet Union
Casualties:Germany lost 250,000–400,000 and the Soviet Union lost 600,000–1,300,000
Leaders: Hitler and Stalin
Outcome: defeat of the German army -
Battle of Pearl Harbor
Combatants: Japan and The United States
Casualties: 129 Japanese soldiers were killed and More than 2,400 Americans died in the attack
Leaders: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Hirohito
Outcome: The United states victory -
Battle of midway
Combatants: Japan and the United States
Casualties:Japanese lost approximately 3,057 men and the United States lost approximately 362 men
Leaders: US-Admirals Chester W. Nimitz, Frank J. Fletcher, and Raymond A. Spruance. Japan-Isoroku Yamamoto, Chūichi Nagumo, and Nobutake Kondō
Outcome: a major victory over the Imperial Japanese Navy -
Battle of Stalingrad
Combatants:Germany and Soviet Union
Casualties:Soviet Union suffered 1,100,000 casualties and Germany suffered 250,000 casualties
Leaders:
Russia - Stalin and the Soviet high command
Germany - Hitler
Outcome: The Soviet Union inflicted a catastrophic defeat on the German Army -
Battle of Normandy
Combatants: United Kingdom, Canada and the US and many others like Australia, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, France, Greece, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway and Poland
Casualties: during the Battle of Normandy over 425,000 Allied and German troops were killed
Leaders: General Dwight D Eisenhower, Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder, Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay,
Outcomes: The German Army was comprehensively defeated -
Battle of Kursk
Combatants: German and Soviet Union
Casualties: 800,000 Soviet casualties and 200,000 German casualties
Leaders: Stalin and Hitler
Outcome: unsuccessful German assault on the Soviet -
Battle of Iwo Jima
Combatants: Japan and US
Casualties: US 6,140 died and Japan lost approximately 22,000 Japanese soldiers and sailors
Leaders: US-Raymond A. Spruance Marc Mitscher William H. P. Blandy Holland M. Smith Harry Schmidt Graves B. Erskine
Japan - Tadamichi Kuribayashi † Takeichi Nishi † Sadasue Senda † Rinosuke Ichimaru †
Outcome:A costly victory for the United States -
Battle of Berlin
Combatants: Germany and Soviet Union
Soviet Deaths: 80,000 dead or missing soldiers
German Deaths: 92,000 and possibly as high as 100,000
Leaders: Stalin and Hitler
Outcome: It ended with the fall of Berlin to the Soviet