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Battle Of The Atlantic
September 3, 1939 – May 7, 1945. Victory for the Allies. Allies loss 36,200 sailors Axis loss 30,000 sailors. the Germans attempted to cut off British access to supplies by sea. Wolf pack- U-Boats hunted in groups and often attacked at night. -
Battle of Britain
July 10, 1940 – October 31, 1940. Britain victory. The Germans planned to invade Britain with the objective of landing 160,000 soldiers along a forty mile coastal stretch of South-East England. More than 1700 Luftwaffe (German air force) planes were destroyed.The Royal Air Force (RAF) lost 1250 aircraft. Britain won. -
Operation Torch
dwight D eisenhower (Ike) was in charge to fight the german. British american invasion north african. Fight in egypt, surround in libya. Allies victory. Axis loose. -
Battle of El Alamein, Egypt
early fighting for Italian forces. Hitler sent troops to support italy. African forces, lead by general erwin rommel nicknamed desert fox. British general named Afrika Korp to fight against german. Turned point in WW2. -
Battle of Stalingrad
1942 – February 2, 1943 General Paulus surrendered. The Soviet victory at Stalingrad was a great humiliation for Hitler. Hitler tried to send reforms to italians. Location was a major industrial area. 25 thousand soldiers surrender. Soviet attack the axis. Turning point of WW2. mother nature stopped the Hitler attack, the winter. -
Invasion of Sicily/Italy
tured from sicily turned for hitler. Group of african american tuskety jan 100 alis went to zeno. 1943, attempt to cross the mediterranean. Large scale invasion. Tuskany was segregated unit of african american. George patton was perfected the Blitzkrieg. Defeated sicily. Die for musily and hitler or live for life and italy. Musile badly killed -
Operation Overlord
to end the war quickly attack, arrived in the mainland. Pick beach of northern france, then used weapons collected and 2 commander Bernard montgomery Omar Bradley. Normandy france, attacked. Plan was very costly. Parachuted behind the enemy line. Largest armada assembled. Landed on normandy. Charles degall, named D- day. Dwight D eisenhower was the leading general. -
Battle of the Bulge
last major battle of german to defend himself. 75000 allies lost there life. Success for germany. -
Hitler Commits Suicide
swallowed cyanide caps shot himself in the head Hitler and wife both took ciyonide and hitler shot himself to make sure he was dead. Wife died with him. After he died, they burn his body. victory in Europe is VE day.
