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Invasion of Poland
Germany invaded Poland. The Polish army was defeated within weeks of the invasion. -
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. -
Invasion of France
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Battle of Britain
The Battle of Britain was the first major campaign to be fought entirely by air forces, and was also the largest and most sustained aerial bombing campaign to that date. -
Operation of Sealion
Germany's plan to invade the United Kingdom during the Second World War, -
Operation Barbarossa
Germans were pushed back from Moscow and could never mount an offensive simultaneously along the entire strategic Soviet-German front again. -
Battle of Leningrad
was a prolonged military operation resulting from the failure of the German Army Group North to capture Leningrad -
Pearl Harbor
Aircraft and midget submarines of the Imperial Japanese Navy began an attack on the U.S. -
Battle of Coral Sea
a major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II between the Imperial Japanese Navy and Allied naval and air forces from the United States and Australia. -
Battle of Midway
the most important naval battle of the Pacific Campaign of World War II -
Battle of Guadcanal
The Guadalcanal campaign was a significant strategic combined arms victory by Allied forces over the Japanese in the Pacific theatre. -
Battle of Stalingrad
major battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in southwestern Russia -
Operation Torch
The Soviet Union had pressed the U.S. and Britain to start operations in Europe and open a second front to reduce the pressure of German forces on the Soviet troops. -
Anzio Landings
during the Italian Campaign of World War II, was an Allied amphibious landing against Axis forces in the area of Anzio and Nettuno, Italy. -
D-Day
The Normandy landings, codenamed Operation Neptune, were the landing operations of the Allied invasion of Normandy, in Operation Overlord, during World War II. -
Operation Market Garden
was an unsuccessful Allied military operation, fought in the Netherlands and Germany in the Second World War. It was the largest airborne operation up to that time.[nb 5 -
Battle of the Bulge
The German offensive was supported by several subordinate operations known as Unternehmen Bodenplatte, Greif, and Währung. -
The Battle of Berlin
The Battle of Berlin, designated the Berlin Strategic Offensive Operation by the Soviet Union, was the final major offensive of the European Theatre of World War II. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
was a major battle in which the United States fought for and captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Empire of Japan -
Battle of Okinawa
the largest amphibious assault in the Pacific War of World War II -
Hiroshima
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Nagasaki
Nagasaki was the target of the United States' second atomic bomb attack