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Battle of the Atlantic
The Battle of the Atlantic was the longest continuous military campaign in World War II, running from 1939 to the defeat of Germany in 1945 -
Battle of France
The Battle of France marked the end of the so-called Phoney War — that strange, uncertain period of the Second World War which saw neither side commit to serious military action — and witnessed the German forces invade France and the Low Countries. -
Battle of Dunkirk
The Battle of Dunkirk was an important battle in the Second World War between the Allies and Germany. -
Battle of Britain
The Battle of Britain was the intense air battle between the Germans and the British over Great Britain's airspace from July 1940 to May 1941, with the heaviest fighting from July to October 1940. -
Invasion of Yugoslavia
The Invasion of Yugoslavia, also know as the April war or operation 25, was a German-led attack on the Kingdom of Yugoslavia by the Axis powers which began on April 6, 1941 during World War II. -
Operation Barbarossa
Operation Barbarossa beginning June 22, 1941 was the code name for Germany's invasion of the Soviet union during World War II. -
Battle of Moscow
Soviet Russia’s successful defense of their capital against the German forces who sought to capture it in 1941 was a major turning point in the war. -
Japanese invasion of Thailand
The Japanese Invasion of Thailand occurred on December 8, 1941. It was fought between Thailand and the Empire of Japan. -
Battle of the Coral Sea
The Battle of the Coral Sea, fought during May 4-8, 1942, was a major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II between the Imperial Japanese Navy and naval and air forces from the United States and Australia. -
Battle of Midway
The Battle of Midway in the Pacific Theater of Operations was one of the most important naval battles of World War II. -
Battle of Stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad, which saw Hitler’s major push for dominance on the Eastern Front, was marked by terrible losses on both sides. -
Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands
The Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands, October 26, 1942, sometimes referred to as the Battle of Santa Cruz or in Japanese cources as the Battle of the South Pacific, was the fourth carrier battle of the Pacific Campaign of World War II and the fourth major naval engagement fought between the United States Navy and the Imperial Japanese Navy during the lengthy and strategically important Guadalcanal campaign. -
Operation Torch
Operation Torch was the British-American invasion of French North Africa during the North African Campaign of the Second World War which started on November 8, 1942 -
The Katyn Forest Massacre
One such massacre was uncovered on April 13, 1943 by German forces in the Katyn Forest outside Smolensk, Russia. The mass graves discovered there contained the remains of 4,400 Polish military officers, who had been killed by the NKVD (Soviet secret police) upon the orders of Soviet leader Josef Stalin in April/May 1940. -
Battle of Kursk
A decisive victory for the Soviet Union on the Eastern Front, the Battle of Kursk saw the largest series of armored tank clashes of the entire war and the costliest single day of aerial conflict in history. -
Battle of Monte Cassino
Waged between the Allies and the joint German and Italian troops in the early part of 1944, the Battle of Monte Cassino was one of the hardest fought battles of the Second World War. -
Battle of Narva
The strategically important Estonian county of Narva Isthmus saw ferocious fighting between the German army — bolstered by Estonian conscripts desperate to resist Soviet re-occupation — and Stalin’s Red Army. -
Battle of the Bulge
The Battle of the Bulge — so-called by the British because of the “bulge” in the map where the German forces broke the Allied line — was the last major German offensive on the Western Front of World War II. -
Battle of Luzon
Luzon, the largest island in the Philippines, was seen as being of great strategic importance to the United States. Despite General MacArthur’s belief in value of the island, American troops would have to wait until 1945 to launch an attack on Luzon, which was taken by the Japanese in 1942. -
Battle of Berlin
The last major offensive of the war in Europe, the Battle of Berlin saw the fall of the German Army, the suicide of Hitler and the beginning of the end of the Second World War.
