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Battle of Dunkirk
- Rescue of 338,226 Allied troops from advancing German troops
- Dunkirk is in the north of France on the shores of the North Sea
- Hitler used blitzkrieg during this battle
- 800 to 1,200 of small boats came to the aid of Allied troops
- 68,000 soldiers were dead, wounded, missing, or captured
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Battle of Britain
- Winston Church became British prime minister at the time
- Germany starts are attacks, then land soldiers on the shores
- After the 1st month, Germany started bombing major cities
- Used radar and Enigma to get victory in the air
- Code name was Operation Sea-lion
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Battle of Leningrad
- German's surrounded Leningrad and tried to siege it, but were unsuccessful
- Land and Air attack
- Bombed the city repeatedly to cut of supplies to the city
- longest and deadliest siege in modern history
- Many people starved or froze to death in Leningrad
- German's surrounded Leningrad and tried to siege it, but were unsuccessful
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Battle of Stalingrad
-Stalingrad was a major economic center at the time and was named after Stalin
-Easy attack for Germany because the Soviets were defending Moscow
-The Germans wanted to cut off the supply of oil in Russia
- 600,000 people lived in Stalingrad at the time
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Operation Torch
- First time the US and Britain had jointly worked on an invasion together
- Amphibious landing
- 3 landing sites: Casablanca, Oran, and Algiers
- Allied invasion of North Africa
- approx. 150,000 Nazi troops were captured
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D-Day
- The largest amphibious invasion in history.
- More than 13,000 aircraft and 5,000 ships supported the operation.
- Estimated 10,000 Allied causalities, injuries, and missing on D-day
- The original date for the invasion was June 5, 1944 but bad weather postponed it a day
- The invasion's code name was Operation Overlord.
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Battle of the Bulge
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Battle of Berlin
- 350,000 casualties on both sides
- Hitler committed suicide with his wife Bruan
- Soviets outnumbered the Germans
- Bombing of Berlin
- Germany surrendered