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Battle of France/Miracle of Dunkirk
- a cease-fire agreement was signed between Germany and France -France was willing to surrender about 2 million of its soldiers, held captive by the Germans, to Adolf Hitler’s men as prisoners -the British army, three French armies, and what remained of the Belgian army, found themselves trapped near the Belgian-French border -The Germans employed Blitzkrieg tactics, using armoured vehicles and aircraft to make rapid territorial gains.
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Battle of Britian
-Almost all the war was fought in the air
-Hitler tried to convince Britain to surrender without a fight
-Hitler bombed London and it turned into britans favor
-A lot of the pilots plagued because of exahution and personnel shortages
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Battle of Stalingrad
-stopped german advance into the soviet union
-hitler invaded without a decleration of war
-disregard for human saftey
-continuous bombings
-Greatest battle of ww2 -
Battle of Leningrad
-The siege actually lasted 872 days
-Leningrad’s entire able-bodied population was mobilized to build antitank fortifications along the city’s perimeter in support of the city’s 200,000 Red Army defenders.
-siege claimed 650,000 Leningrader lives (mostly from starvation, exposure, disease, and shelling from distant German artillery)
-most grueling and memorable sieges in history.
-German armies had by early September approached Leningrad from the west and south -
Operation Torch
-It may have been the most important strategic decision that Allied leaders would make
- first time the British and Americans had jointly worked on an invasion plan together.
- the first major airborne assault carried out by the US during the war
-After the victory, British forces led by General Montgomery were to the east of Tunisia and the U.S. forces were located to the west effectively sandwiching Rommel in Tunisia.
- the largest amphibious operation -
D-Day
-156,000 American, British and Canadian forces landed on 5 beaches along a 50-mile stretch of the heavily fortified coast of France’s Normandy region
-one of the largest amphibious military assaults
-Hitler charged Rommel with finishing the Atlantic Wall
-the Allies carried out a massive deception operation intended to make the Germans think the main invasion target was Pas-de-Calais
-Many tactics was used to carry out the deception including fake equipment and double agents -
Battle of Bulge
-Largest battle fought on the western front
-Adolf Hitler launched an counterattack against Allied forces in the Ardennes Forest in southern Belgium and Luxembourg
-the Ardennes’ American defenders were caught off guard as more than 250,000 German troops and hundreds of tanks descended on their positions
-80,000 GIs were killed
-The Allies missed several early warning signs of an offensive -
Battle of Berlin
-German vs Soviet army
-The Soviet army vastly outnumbered the Germans. The Soviets had over 2,500,000 soldiers, 7,500 aircraft, and 6,250 tanks.
-last major battle of ww2 (in Europe)
-the Soviets attacked along the Oder River near Berlin
-The soviet army worked their way around the city and had it completely surrounded in a few days
