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Battle of France/ Miracle of Dunkirk
- a military operation that took place in Dunkirk, France
- Fought between the Allies and Nazi Germany.
- German victory
- the Germans captured 40,000 French troops
- German forces occupied Paris
- Ended on the 4th of June in 1940
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Battle of Britain
- UK against Germany
- In the UK
- Ended in British victory
- Royal Air Force defended UK against Nazi air force attacks
- Ended on October 31, 1940
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Battle of Leningrad
- also called 900-day siege
- also known as the Leningrad Blockade
- It was in St. Petersburg
- ended in Soviet Union victory
- lasted 4 years
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Battle of Stalingrad
- largest confrontation of World War II
- German 6th army was destroyed
- In the city of Stalingrad
- Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union
- Ended on February 2, 1943
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Operation Torch
- Only lasted for 2 days (November 10 1942)
- Also known as Operation Gymnast
- invasion of French North Africa during the North African Campaign
- Commanded by American General Dwight D. Eisenhower
- The first time the British and Americans had jointly worked on plan together
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D Day
- D-Day was the largest amphibious invasion in history
- The name D Day has been used for many operations but the widely known one is this occurrence.
- More than 160,000 Allied troops -- about half of them Americans -- invaded Western Europe
- Turning point in WWII
- The "D" in D Day doesn't stand for anything.
- Ended on June 7,1944
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Battle of the Bulge
- last major German offensive campaign on the Western Front during World War II
- third-most lethal American battle
- also known as the Ardennes Offensive
- an attempt to push the Allied front line west from northern France to northwestern Belgium
- Ended on January 25, 1945
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Battle of Berlin
- Soviet victory
- Happened in Berlin, Germany
- Fought between the German army and the Soviet Union
- The Soviets had over 2,500,000 soldiers
- The battle ended on May 2, 1945
