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Battle of the Atlantic
At first the Germany had the upper hand with their German U boats attacking American merchant ships. These so called attacks were called Wolf Packs. The US finally fought back and began using radar to patrol the seas. They also cracked the Enigma which was the German code system for the U boats location. -
Battle of Britain
air campaign waged by the German Air Force (Luftwaffe) against the United Kingdom during the summer and autumn of 1940. The Battle of Britain was the first major campaign to be fought entirely by air forces, and was also the largest and most sustained aerial bombing campaign to that date. Their ultimate failure was one of the turning points of World War Two and prevented Germany from invading Britain. -
The Battle of Stalingrad
Stalingrad, a major industrial center of the Volga River. Germans attacked in August 1942. Bloodiest fighting in the history of warfare, Soviets refuse to let it fall. Germans exposed themselves to Soviets. 250,000 Axis soldiers were trapped by Soviets.Surviving surrender 1943.Hitler suffered defeat. Stalingrad marked the Germany's collapse in S.U. . Hitler lost 2 million and Soviets lost 12million. Leningrad alone lost 800,000.Lifted in Jan.44. Soviets survived. now fight to defeat the axis -
Battle of El Alamein, Egypt
Fought about the same time as the Battle of Stalingrad, the British handed the Germans a major defeat. turned the tide in the North African Campaign and ended the Axis threat to Egypt, the Suez Canal, and of gaining access to the Middle Eastern & Persian oil fields via North Africa.Second El Alamein revived the morale of the Allies, being the first major offensive against the Axis since the start of the European war in 1939 in which the Western Allies had achieved. Lieutenant-General Bernard Mon -
Operation Torch
British-American invasion of French North Africa during the North African Campaign of the Second World War. Took place in French Morocco and French Algeria. 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. 20,000 Amer. killed or wounded. helped defeat Rommel's forces. Continued to push European invasion. -
Invasion of Sicily / Italy
1943, Allied leaders prepared to cross the Med. get Italians 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. Tuskegee Airmen was segregated unit of African Amer. first to receive training as pilots in the US military. Allied approached Rome. the sea front Anzio. four months. 25 -
Operation Ovverlord
Allies wanted to launch a large invasion of mainland Europe. Several months went by trying to figure out where when they settled on the beaches of Normandy, northern France. Omar Bradley lead Amer. troops. The operation commenced on 6 June 1944 with the Normandy landings (Operation Neptune, commonly known as D-Day). 10,000 Allied casualties, with 6,600 Amer. also landed 180,000 vehicles this was a success -
Battle of the Bulge
was a major German offensive campaign launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in Belgium, France, and Luxembourg on the Western Front toward the end of World War II in Europe. symbol of American strength and determination. George S. Patton relieved amer. force. Germans not used to the cold temps. and little supply. -
Hitler commits sucicide
Adolf Hitler killed himself by gunshot on 30 April 1945 in his Führerbunker in Berlin.His wife Eva committed suicide with him by taking cyanide. That afternoon, in accordance with Hitler's prior instructions, their remains were carried up the stairs through the bunker's emergency exit, doused in petrol, and set alight in the Reich Chancellery garden outside the bunker.Records in the Soviet archives show that their burnt remains were recovered. -
VE Day
Marked the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces. Celebrate end of the war in Europe. After 6 years, it was finally over.
