ww2 wars

  • Battle of dunkrik

    Battle of dunkrik
    • May 26, 1940 – Jun 4, 1940 -France United Kingdom Belgium Canada Netherlands and germany were part of this war -around 22,000 allied troops were killed in the Battle of Dunkirk and around 2,000 civilians lost their lives -Charles Abrial Lord Gort for the allied powers and Gerd von Rundstedt Fedor von Bock Ewald von Kleist for the german forces -In the end the allied powers ended up surrendering to germany
  • Battle of moscow

    Battle of moscow
    -Sep 30, 1941 – Apr 20, 1942
    -between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union
    -German losses during the Battle of Moscow totaled 250,000–400,000 dead or wounded, and the Red Army suffered 600,000–1,300,000 dead, wounded, or captured
    -Franz Halder was the head of the german army and Franz Halder for the soviet union
    -In the end to soviets ended up using strategic planning to win
  • battle of Moscow

    battle of Moscow
    -Sep 30, 1941 – Apr 20, 1942
    -Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union were in it
    -German losses during the Battle of Moscow totaled 250,000–400,000 dead or wounded, and the Red Army suffered 600,000–1,300,000 dead, wounded, or captured
    -Fedor von Bock for nazi and Georgiy Zhukov for the soviets
    -Strategic Soviet victory
  • pearl harbor

    pearl harbor
    -attack happened by japan on US
    -2,403 U.S. personnel, including 68 civilians were killed
    -Isoroku Yamamoto led the attack for japan
    -President Franklin D. Roosevelt was the president at the time for the US
    -The united states got attacked and was left a mess but we eventually attacked back
  • Battle of Madway

    Battle of Madway
    -Jun 4, 1942 – Jun 7, 1942
    -US and Japanese naval forces
    -Japanese lost approximately 3,057 men,while United States lost approximately 362 men
    -Admirals Chester W for the US and Isoroku Yamamoto for the japanese
    -The American success at Midway was a major victory over the Imperial Japanese Navy
  • battle of stalingrad

    battle of stalingrad
    -Aug 23, 1942 – Feb 2, 1943
    -battle between soviet union and the Axis powers
    -800,000 for the soviet union and 1,100,000 for the german nazi powers
    -Marshal Semyon Timoshenko led the nazi powers and Benito Mussolini for the axis powers
    -The soviet union ended up winning
  • battle of kursk

    battle of kursk
    -Jul 5, 1943 – Aug 23, 1943
    -A battle between soviet union and nazi germany
    -800,000 Soviet casualties and 200,000 German casualties
    -one millitary leader for germany was Erich von Manstein
  • battle of normandy

    battle of normandy
    -Jun 6, 1944 – Aug 30, 1944
    -Australia, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, France, Greece, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway and Poland were in it
    -73,000 Allied forces were killed and 153,000 wounded
    -General Dwight D. Eisenhower was a military leader for the US
    -In the end the german forces won
  • Battle of bulge

    Battle of bulge
    -Dec 16, 1944 – Jan 25, 1945
    -it was the german forces against the allied forces
    -U.S. Army lost approximately 19,000 men and suffered some 75,000 total casualties and germany lost 80,000 to l00,000 men
    -Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower led the allied powers and von Rundstedt for the germans
    -In the end the allied powers ended up winning
  • battle Iwo Jima

    battle Iwo Jima
    -Feb 19, 1945 – Mar 26, 1945
    -This was a war between the US and the japanese
    -6,140 men died for the US and 22,000 for the japanese
    -Raymond A. Spruance for the US and Tadamichi Kuribayashi for the japanese
    -In the end the americans took the victory
  • Battle of berlin

    Battle of berlin
    -Apr 16, 1945 – May 2, 1945
    -German and Soviet forces were the combatants in this war
    -SS had had 80000 deaths while german forces had 100000
    -Gotthard Heinrici and Helmuth Reymann were military leaders for germany
    -the soviets ended up winning the war and taking over berlin