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Battle of France/Miracle of Dunkirk
The Germans had surrounded the beaches of Dunkirk so the Allied Powers couldn't escape.
1. Beach of Dunkirk
2. Code name Operation Dynamo
3. People from Dunkirk came to rescue soldiers in fishing and other boats
4. British Expeditionary Force (BEF)
5. Nazi Germany invaded Poland
May 27th 1940-June 4th 1940 -
Battle of Britain
When Germany first attacked Britain with the Luftwaffe as a German air force.
1. Luftwaffe=German air force
2. Germany had dive bomber to destroy roads and bases
3. Hitler tried to convince Britain not to fight because he knew that he would destroy Britain
4. First air battle
5. Early use of radar
July 10th 1940-October 31st 1940 -
Battle of Leningrad
The Germans pushed Russia with the Spanish Blue division and Russia destroyed that attacked because they had no supplies.
1. Lasted 872 days
2. Some one million civilians and Red army people soldiers died
3. One of Germany's first targets to take over was the capital of Russia
4.Russia defeated Germany at this battle
5. 150,000 Germans had died
September 8th 1941-January 27th 1944 -
Battle of Stalingrad
The U.S.S.R stopped the Germans from moving further into Russia which in turn caused the Allies to gain an advantage.
1. Stalin didn't want to evacuate the city because he thought that his soldiers would fight harder
2. 1,798,619 is the estimated deaths between the Axis and the Russians
3. First major battle that the Germans had lost
4. Fights took place about everywhere in Russia even in houses
5. One of the bloodiest battles in WWII
August 23 1942 – 2 February 1943 -
Operation Torch
This is when the Anglo Americans invaded the North part of Africa where the French have control.
1.Germany had two submarines
2. Germany surrounded France and the French had to surrender
3. Germany just kept pushing through Africa
4. Almost 2,000 dead combining the Axis and the Allies
5. Allies almost had double what the Axis powers had
November 8th 1942-November 10th 1942 -
D-Day
D-day was the storming of the Normandy beaches on the Germans and the Americans had to rush the beaches to push back the Nazi's to help the Allies.
1. Americans came onto the beaches from boats and rushed into the bunkers and beaches
2. The largest water invasion ever recorder in human history
3. Operation Overlord was D-day's code name
4. Over 10,249 Allies were killed and lost in this one day battle
5. 13,000 aircraft and 5,500 ships had been used for this invasion
June 6th 1944-June 7th 1944 -
Battle of the Bulge
This was Germany's last major offensive attack to try to make the Allied powers fall back and get pushed to the Belgium front line.
1. The Allied Powers won
2. Allied Powers initially had less troops but ended with over 600,000 while the Axis Powers had 500,000 plus
3. Almost 200,000 people died included Allied and Germans
4. Battle took place in four different locations
5. Germans had so much more technology and weapons than the Allied powers had
December 16 1944-January 25th 1945 -
Battle of Berlin
When Nazi Germany didn't want to sign to a treaty to stop the war in Europe. But WWII was not over the fighting in Europe was over.
1. About 150,000 Polish fought with the Soviet Union
2. The Soviet army had over 2,500,000 soldiers, 7,500 aircraft, and 6,250 tanks
3. The German army had 1,000,000 soldiers, 2,200 aircraft, and 1,500 tanks
4. The Soviet Union had clearly outnumbered the Germans by over a million soldiers
5. The German army had kids fighting in their war
April 16 1945-May 2 1945
