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Battle of the Atlantic
From Sept. 1939-May 1945, Germany was cutting of U.S. supplies to Britain by lining an area with wolf packs-submarine tactic in which submarines hunt as a group and attack at night. The Allied and Axis Powers fought in the Atlantic Gap, which was where HIlter's "wolfpack" was found. -
Battle of Britain
The Battle of Britain is the name given to the Second World War air campaign waged by the German Air Force against the United Kingdom during the summer and autumn of 1940 because Germany was invading Great Britain. -
Battle of Stalingrad
In the Battle of Stalingrad, a major battle in WWII, Nazi Germany, along with its allies, fought the Soviet Union. They fought the Soviet Union in order to gain control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia, on the eastern boundary of Europe. The battle lasted from August 1942- February 1943 in Volgograd, Russia. -
Battle of El Alamein, Egypt
The First Battle of El Alamein (1–27 July 1942) was a 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. -
Operation Torch
Operation Torch was the British-American invasion of French North Africa during the North African Campaign of the Second World War which started on 8 November 1942. -
Invasion of Sicily/Italy
The Allied invasion of Sicily, codenamed Operation Husky, was a 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.Husky began on the night of July 9 and 10 1943, and ended on August 17.It opened the way for the invasion of Italy. -
Operation Overlord
Operation Overlord was the code name for the Battle of Normandy, the Allied operation that launched the successful invasion of German-occupied western Europe during World War II. The operation commenced on 6 June 1944 with the Normandy landings. -
Battle of the Bulge
The Battle of the Bulge was a 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. -
Hitler Commits Suicide
On this day in 1945, holed up in a bunker under his headquarters in Berlin, Adolf Hitler commits suicide by swallowing a cyanide capsule and shooting himself in the head. Soon after, Germany unconditionally surrendered to the Allied forces, ending Hitler’s dreams of a “1,000-year” Reich. -
VE Day!!
The eighth of May spelled the day when German troops throughout Europe finally laid down their arms. On this day in 1945, both Great Britain and the United States celebrate Victory in Europe Day. Cities in both nations, as well as formerly occupied cities in Western Europe, put out flags and banners, rejoicing in the defeat of the Nazi war machine.