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Battle of the Atlantic
Longest running continuous military campaign in WWII lasting for 6 years. It was an attack made by the German army to gain acces to the entire Atlantic Ocean. -
Battle of Britain
German and Italian navy vs. the allied powers. Germany was attempting to annex Britain. This attempt was made to strengthen Germany. -
Battle of El Almein, Egypt
Battle of the Western Desert Campaign of the Second World War, fought on the northern coast of Egypt between Axis forces of the Panzer Army Africa -
Battle of Stalingrad
Major battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia, on the eastern boundary of Europe. -
Operation Torch
The Soviet Union had pressed the United States and United Kingdom to start operations in Europe and open a second front to reduce the pressure of German forces on the Soviet troops. -
Invasion of Sicily
major World War II campaign, in which the Allies took Sicily from the Axis Powers. It was a large scale amphibious and airborne operation, followed by six weeks of land combat. It launched the Italian Campaign. -
Operation Overlord
Operation that launched the successful invasion of German-occupied western Europe during World War II. The operation commenced with the Normandy landings. A 1,200-plane airborne assault preceded an amphibious assault involving more than 5,000 vessels. -
Battle of the Bulge
Major German offensive campaign launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in Belgium, France, and Luxembourg on the Western Front toward the end of World War II in Europe. Eric von Manstein planned the offensive with the primary goal to recapture the important harbor of Antwerp. -
Hitler Commits Suicide
Accounts differ as to the cause of death; one states that he died by poison only and another that he died by a self-inflicted gunshot while biting down on a cyanide capsule. Contemporary historians have rejected these accounts as being either Soviet propaganda or an attempted compromise in order to reconcile the different conclusions.One eye-witness recorded that the body showed signs of having been shot through the mouth, but this has been proven unlikely. -
V-E Day
Marks the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces. It thus marked the end of World War II in Europe.
