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The Invasion of Poland
The Germans invaded Poland on September 1st, 1939. The Polish army was defeated within weeks of the invasion.
After heavy shelling and bombing, Warsaw surrendered to the Germans on September 28, 1939.
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The Battle of Britain
The Battle was fought from July 10, 1940 to October 31, 1940. In the summer and fall of 1940, German and British air forces clashed in the skies over the United Kingdom, locked in the largest sustained bombing campaign to that date. A significant turning point of World War II, the Battle of Britain ended when Germany’s Luftwaffe failed to gain air superiority over the Royal Air Force despite months of targeting Britain’s air bases, military posts and, ultimately, its civilian population. Britai -
Stalingrad
The Battle for Stalingrad was the bloodiest battle in WWII
Total casualties for this battle ranged anywhere from 1 to 2 million
On August 23, 1942, precisely at 18:00, one thousand airplanes began to drop incendiary bombs on Stalingrad. In that city of 600,000 people, there were many wooden buildings, gas tanks and fuel tanks for industries. Stalingrad was heavily hit by air attack; one raid of 600 planes started vast fires and killed 40,000 civilians. -
D-Day
135,000 men landed on the beaches of Normandy. Allied paratroopers landed behind enemy lines to create chaos among them. -
The Battle of the Bulge
Lasted from December 16 1944 to January 28, 1945. 600,000 Germans, 500,000 Americans, and 55,000 British fought in this battle making it the largest land battle in WWII. In the conclusion to this battle 19,000 Americans were killed, 200 British killed, and 100,000 Germans killed.
