European theater battles

Soviet expansion

Sep 17, 1939

Following the german attack on Poland the soviet army invaded eastern Poland

Battle of Britain

1940

Miraculously Britain held its own with Germany while America deliberated

Operation Barbarossa

Jun 22, 1941

Hoping to capture vast agricultural lands, seize numerous oil fields, and break the military threat of Stalin’s Soviet Union, Hitler broke the german-Soviet non-aggression pact

Operation Overlord

Jun 6, 1944

The western allies of ww2 launched the largest amphibious invasion in history when they assaulted Normandy

The battle of Berlin

1945

The battle of Berlin, designated the Berlin strategic offensive operation by the Soviet Union, was the final major offensive of the European theater of ww2