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Key Battles of WWII
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Battle of the Coral Sea
an important Allied victory ; the battle stopped the Japanese advance on Australia. -
Battle of Midway
Japan launched a two-pronged attack to crush the u.S. Pacific Fleet. -
Battle of Guadalcanal
Americna marines waded ashore at Guadalcanal and stayed there for about 6 months. later on the U.S, Fleet defeated the Japanese in a bloody battle. -
battle of alamein
mid fall, they helped turn the allies in north africa -
Pearl Harbor
Japanese forced attacked Pearl Harbor and then the president decided to get into war. -
invasion of italy
in mid july, Allied leaders decided to incade Silcily. later on, Mussolini was captured and killed by Indian rebels. -
D-Day
in early july, allied dominated 20 miles of france. -
battle of the bulge
200,000 germans attacked an initaial U.S. force of about 80,000 troops. -
battle ofLeyte Gulf
in the fall of 1944 in October, Allied forced poured onto the beaches of the island of Leyte. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
lasted 6 weeks, several thousands marines and more than 20,000 Japanese soldiers were killed. -
yalta conference
president franklin churchill, and stalin met at the conference and to post the postwar. -
battle of Okinawa
this was the bloodiest of the pacific war. was taken in mid April. -
victory in Europe
victory in Europe was because the day before, hitler killed himself. and everything was being under control.
