European theater battles timeline

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  • Battle of Britain

    Battle of Britain

    Battle of Britain, during World War II, the successful defense of Great Britain against unremitting and destructive air raids conducted by the German air force Luftwaffe from July through September 1940, after the fall of France.
  • Operation Barbarossa

    Operation Barbarossa

    Operation Barbarossa was a code name for the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union , which started on Sunday, 22 June 1941 during world war ||. It put into the action of Nazi ideological goal of conquering the western Soviet Union so as to repopulate it with Germans .
  • Operation Torch

    Operation Torch

    Operation Torch was the Anglo Americans invasion of French Morocco and Algeria during the North African campaign of world war ||. It was designed as a pincer movement with American landing at Morocco’s Atlantic coast and American landing on Algeria’s Mediterranean coast.
  • Operation Overlord

    Operation Overlord

    Operation Overlord was the codename for the Battle of Normandy, the Allied operation that launched the successful invasion of German occupied Western Europe during World War II. The operation was launched on 6 June 1944 with the Normandy landings.
  • Yalta conference

    Yalta conference

    The conference was held near Yalta in Crimea, Soviet Union, within the Livadia, Yusupov, and Vorontsov Palaces. The aim of the conference was to shape a post war peace that represented not just a collective security order but a plan to give self-determination to the liberated peoples of post Nazi Europe.