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Battle of Britain
Who: Adolf Hitler
When: The Battle of Britain started on July 10th, 1940
Where: in Britain
Why: because Adolf Hitler had expected the British to seek a peace settlement after Germany’s defeat of France in June 1940, but Britain was determined to fight on. -
Operation Barbarossa
Who: Adolf Hitler
When: On 22 June 1941
Where: in Germany
Why: Hitler broke the German-Soviet non-aggression pact and Germany invaded the Soviet Union -
Operation Torch
Who: The “Big Three” (Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill)
When: November 8, 1942 – November 10, 1942
Where: French Protectorate in Morocco
Why: It resulted from an uneasy compromise between the Western Allies, and was intended to relieve pressure on the Soviet Union by imperiling Axis forces in the region and by enabling an invasion of Southern Europe. -
Operation Overlord
Who: General Dwight Eisenhower
When: on June 6, 1944
Where: Normandy, located on the northern coast of France
Why: the Allied invasion of western Europe, with the simultaneous landing of U.S., British, and Canadian forces on five separate beachheads in Normandy, France. -
Yalta Conference
Who: Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin
When: February 4, 1945 – February 11, 1945
Where: in the resort city of Yalta, located along the Black Sea coast of the Crimean Peninsula
Why: The aim of the conference was to shape a post-war peace that represented not just a collective security order but a plan to give self-determination to the liberated peoples of post-Nazi Europe. The meeting was intended mainly to discuss the re-establishment of the nations of war-torn Europe.
