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Battle of the Atlantic
The Battle of the Atlantic was the longest running military campaign of the Second World War, lasting from September 3, 1939, to May 8, 1945. It began with British declaration of war against Germany and ended with Germany's surrender to the Allies in 1945. The battle was fought between Germany and Italy against the Allied powers. It took place in the Atlantic Ocean. -
Battle of the Atlantic
The ‘Wolf pack’ tactic began with widely-dispersed German U-boats searching for an Atlantic convoy. They attacked at night, like wolves. The German U-boats used an Enigma machine, which was a machine that enciphered messages between the Navy and headquarters. The British Royal Navy broke the code. -
Battle of Britain
The Battle of Britaain, in German " Luftschlacht um England" translation: Air battle for England was fought between the United Kingdom and the German Air Force in British airspace. It was the first major campaign to be fought entirely by air forces. The battle occurred from 10 July – 31 October 1940. The German objective was to gain air superiority over the Royal Air Force (RAF), especially Fighter Command. The Fighter Command was one of the commands of Her Majesty's Royal Air Force. -
Battle of Stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad was a major defeat of the Germans in Stalingrad by the Soviets, on the Russian river Volga. Germany and their allies were trying to conquer Stalingrad from the Soviets. This war regarded as the largest and bloodiest battle in the history of warfare. -
Battle of Stalingrad
The war was marked by heavy civilian casualties and close combat quarters. This was a turning point in the European Theatre and the German forces never recovered the ground lost in the East; they had to draw troops from the West to cover their losses. The battle ended February 2, 1943. -
Battle of El Alamein
The Second Battle of El Alamein took place near the Egyptian railway halt of El Alamein between the Allies and the Axis Powers. It stalled the Axis advance into northern Africa; it also raised the morale of the Allied troops because it was the first major offensive victory against the Axis since the start of the European War. -
Operation Torch
was the British-American invasion of French North Africa during the North African Campaign of the Second World War. It began on 8 November 1942 and ended 16 November 1942. The commander was US LTG Dwight D. Eisenhower. The plan called for American forces to invade the North African countries of Morocco and Alergia. French Vichy forces there soon joined with the Americans. Some 20,000 Americans were killed or injured. German forces were defeated. -
Invasion of Sicily/Italy
The Allied invasion of Sicily, codenamed Operation Husky, was a major World War II campaign, in which the Allies took Sicily from the Axis Powers (Italy and Nazi Germany). It was a large scale amphibious and airborne operation, followed by six weeks of land combat. It launched the Italian Campaign. Benito Mussilini toppled from power as a result. -
Operation Overlord(Battle of Normandy)
This was the Allied operation that launched the successful invasion of German-occupied western Europe during World War II. The operation commenced on 6 June 1944 with the Normandy landings, commonly known as D-Day. A 1,200-plane airborne assault preceded an amphibious assault involving more than 5,000 vessels. Nearly 160,000 troops crossed the English Channel on 6 June, and more than three million allied troops were in France by the end of August. -
Battle of the Bulge
The Battle of the Bulge was a major German offensive through the densely forested Ardennes region from 16 September-25 January 1944. The surprise attack caught the Allies completely off-guard. United States forces bore the brunt of the attack and incurred their highest casualties for any operation during the war. The battle also severely depleted Germany's armored forces on the western front which they couldn't replace. German personnel and Luftwaffe aircraft also suffered greatly. -
Hitler Commits Suicide
On 30 April 1945, Adolf Hitler and his wife committed a double-suicide; he shot himself in the head after taking a cyanide pill and she ingested cyanide pills. The two killed themselves in a bunker in Berlin, Germany. The bodies of Hitler and Eva were cremated in the chancellery garden by the bunkers' survivors, as per Hitler's orders. A German court finally officially declared Hitler dead, but not until 1956. The two had been married for less than 2 days at the time of death. -
VE Day!!(Victory in Europe Day)
On 8 May 1945, a public holdiay was celebrated; Victory in Europe Day, the victory of the Allied Powers against the Axis Powers. Many Allied prisoners of war were released by Germany; many german soldiers were taken as prisoners of war by the Soviet Union. VE Day was not celebrated in the Soviet Union until 9 May 1945, when Stalin made a radio broadcast saying, himself: “The age-long struggle of the Slav nations… has ended in victory. Your courage has defeated the Nazis. The war is over.”
