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Fall of France
The Battle of France, also known as the Fall of France, was the German invaded France and was believed to have started in the second war. -
Dunkirk
A call went out to all owners of sea-worthy vessels to travel to Dunkirk to take the troops off the beaches of Dunkirk. More than 338,000 men were rescued, among them some 140,000 French who would form the nucleus of the Free French army under a little known general, Charles de Gaulle. -
Battle of Britain
The Battle of Britain was a military campaign of the Second World War, in which the Royal Air Force defended the United Kingdom against large-scale attacks by Nazi Germany's air force, the Luftwaffe. -
Operation Barbarossa
Hitler sent 3 million soldiers and 3,500 tanks into Russia. The Russians were taken by surprise as they had signed a treaty with Germany in 1939. Stalin immediately signed a mutual assistance treaty with Britain and launched an Eastern front battle that would claim 20 million casualties. -
Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a naval base in Honolulu, Hawaii, that was the scene of a devastating surprise attack by Japanese forces on December 7, 1941. At 8 AM many planes went to pearl harbor and bomb all of the ships and many people were killed. -
Battle of Stalingrad
The Russians won their first victory against Germany at the Battle of Stalingrad. -
Battle of El Alamein
Montgomery attacked the German-Italian army in North Africa with a massive bombardment followed by an armored attack. He then proceeded to chase the routed enemy some 1500 miles across the desert. -
Battle of the Bulge
Germany launched its final defensive through the Ardennes region of Belgium. However, they were beaten back by the allies. -
D-Day
The allies launched an attack on Germany’s forces in Normandy, Western France. Thousands of transports carried an invasion army under the supreme command of General Eisenhower to the Normandy beaches. -
Hiroshima/Nagasaki
The Japanese generals refused to surrender. The US dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima. The US dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Nagasaki as the Japanese had not surrendered following Hiroshima.
