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Battle of the Atlantic
German and Italian navies fougth against the Allied Nations. During six years of naval warfare, German U-boats and warships were pitted agaisnt Allied convoys transporting military equipment and supplied accross the Atlantic to Great Britian and the Soviet Union. The Wolf pack was a war tactic that called for the formation of a group of ships to sail together toward enemy ships. -
Battle of the Atlantic
Within hours of the British declaration of war on Germany, German submarine U-30 attacked what the submarine captain thought was a British auxiliary cruiser; the ship was actually the passenger ship Athenia. The death of 112 civilians on Athenia started what Winston Churchill would christen the Battle of the Atlantic. This battle last unitl 1945.The allies used radiar to help them know when ships were coming. -
Battle of Britian
In the summer and fall of 1940 German and British airforces crashed in the skys over the united kingdom locked in the largest sustained boming campaign to that date. -
Battle of Stalingrad
In some of the bloodiest fighting in the history of warfare, the Soviets refused to let Stalingrad fall. Not only did the Germans fail to take Stalingrad, they also exposed themselves to a Soviet counterattack. The surviving Axis troops were forced to surender in eatly 1943. Hitler had suffered a stunning defeat. -
Battle of El Alamein, Egypt
British had succeded in driving Field Marshal Erwin Rommel into a defensive position in Libya, but Rommel repeated air and tank attacks, delivering heavy losses to the armored strength of the British, using his panzer division, managed to force a British retreat, so rapid that a huge quantity of supplies left behind -
Invasion of Sicily/Italy
The United States and Great Britain, the leading Allied powers, looked ahead to the invasion of occupied Europe and the final defeat of Nazi Germany. The Allies decided to move next against Italy, hoping an Allied invasion would remove the fascist regime from the war, secure the central Mediterranean, and divert German divisions from the northwest coast of France where the Allies planned to attack. The Allies’ Italian Campaign began with the invasion of Sicily in July 1943. -
Operation Torch
Operation Torch (Operation Gymnast) was the British-American invasion of French North Africa during the North African Campaign. The Soviet Union had pressed the United States and United Kingdom to start operations in Europe and open a second front to reduce the pressure of German forces on the Soviet troops.An attack on French North Africa was proposed instead, which would clear the Axis powers from North Africa, improve naval control of the Mediterranean Sea, and prepare for an invasion. -
Operation Overlord
Operation Overlord was the code name given for the Allied invasion of France. The overseeing commander for Operation Overlord was Dwight D. Eisenhower. The plan was for the Allies to have landed a vast amount of both men and equipment by the end of D-Day. This operation required logistical issues that no army had to deal with before. -
Battle of the Bulge
Adolf Hitler attempted to split the Allied armies in northwest Europe by using a blitzkreig through the Ardennes and Antwerp. As the Germans drove deeper into the Ardennes in an attempt to capture vital bridgeheads, the Allied lines took a form of a large bulge. Lieutenant General George S. Patton's successfil maneuvering of the third army to Bastagone proved vital to the Allied defense, leading to the neutralization of the German counter offensive despite heavy casualites. -
Hitler Commits Suicide
Hitler commits suicide in a refurbished air raid shelter by consuming a cyanide capsule and then shooting himself with a pistol. He was warned by many officers that the Russians were only a day or so away from overtaking the chancellery , Hitler and his wife both took cyandie capsules together, but for good measure, he shot himself. They were cremated in the chancellery garden and were recovered by Russian troops. -
VE Day!!
After Hitler's suicide, it was left to Grand Admiral Donitz, who had been president of the Third Reich for a week, to surrender, Donitz surrendered in front of the senior officers of Britain, America, Russia, and France, he surrendered unconditionally to the Western and Russian demands. Britain rejoiced! Churchill made a speech over radio broadcast telling the news. VE stands for Victory in Europe Day.
