Europe

By maddie_perdue

  • Invasion of Poland

    The German army under Adolf Hitler launched an invasion of Poland that triggered the start of World War II (though by 1939 Japan and China were already at war). The battle for Poland only lasted about a month before a Nazi victory

  • Invasion of France

    German forces defeated Allied forces by mobile operations, conquering France, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, ending land operations on the Western Front until the Normandy landings on 6 June 1944. Italy entered the war on 10 June 1940.

  • Battle of Britain

    Battle of Britain is the name commonly given to the effort by the Luftwaffe to gain air superiority over the Royal Air Force (RAF), before a planned sea and airborne invasion of Britain during the Second World War. On 10 July, 1940, the Luftwaffe made their first bomber attack on British ships in the Channel.

  • Stalingrad

    Successful Soviet defense of the city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd), Russia, U.S.S.R. , during World War II. ... It stopped the German advance into the Soviet Union and marked the turning of the tide of war in favour of the Allies.

  • Normandy Invasion (D-Day)

    The Invasion of Normandy. On June 6, 1944 the Allied Forces of Britain, America, Canada, and France attacked German forces on the coast of Normandy, France. With a huge force of over 150,000 soldiers, the Allies attacked and gained a victory that became the turning point for World War II in Europe.

  • Battle of the Bulge

    Battle of the Bulge, also called Battle of the Ardennes, the last major German offensive on the Western Front during World War II—an unsuccessful attempt to push the Allies back from German home territory.

  • Yalta Conference

    The Yalta Conference, also known as the Crimea Conference and code-named the Argonaut Conference, 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

  • V-E Day

    Victory in Europe Day, generally known as VE Day (United Kingdom) or V-E Day (North America), is a day celebrating the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces on 8 May 1945. ... Most European countries celebrate the end of World War II on 8 May.