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Battle of Britain
Britain held out with Germany while America deliberated. -
Operation Barbarossa
Hitler wanted to break the German-Soviet non-aggression pact, so Germany invaded the Soviet Union. The German acquired hundreds of thousands of prisoners, as well as other stuff. -
Operation Torch
In North Africa,1942, British won at El Alamein and began pushing the Germans back. In November, the first American combat troops entered the European war, in which they landed in French Morocco and pushed the Germans east while the British pushed them west. -
Operation Overlord
The Western Allies of World War II launched the largest amphibious invasion in history when they assaulted Normandy, which was located on the northern coast of France, on June 6, 1944. -
Yalta Conference
The Yalta Conference, sometimes called the Crimea Conference and code named the Argonaut Conference, was held from February 4 to 11, 1945. The meeting was intended mainly to discuss the re-British Prime Minister Winston establishment of the nations Churchill, U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt, and Soviet leader of war-torn Europe.
