Timeline: Key battles

Jul 10, 1940

Battle of Britain

This battle was between Britain’s Royal Air Force and the Luftwaffe
(which was Nazi Germany’s Air Force). The cause of this battle was that Germany had wanted to invade Great Britain...but in order to do that they had to destroy the Royal Air Force. The battle happened when Germany bombed Great Britain to destroy their Air Force. The battle started July 10, 1940 and ended October 31, 1940.

Jun 22, 1941

Operation Barbarossa

Adolf Hitler started Operation Barbarossa, he sent his armies to invade the Soviet Union. What Hitler mostly wanted to do was to destroy what he saw as Stalin’s Jewish Bolshevist regime and he wanted to establish Nazi hegemony. This operation started June 22, 1941 and it eventually ended December 5, 1941. Operation Barbarossa was in the Soviet Union. The purpose of this was just to invade the Soviet Union.

Nov 8, 1942

Operation Torch

General Dwight D. Eisenhower stated this operation. The purpose of this was to compromise operation that was supposed to meet the British objective of securing victory on North Africa when allowing American armed forces a chance to engage in the fight towards the Nazis. This operation started November 8, 1942...as it ended November 10, 1942. This must’ve been in France because it was an Anglo-American French invasion. This happened because there was an uneasy compromise between western allies.

Jun 6, 1944

Operation Overlord

General Dwight Eisenhower was the commander of this operation as well. This was the code name for battle of Normandy. This was the successful invasion of German occupied during world war 2. This Normandy invasion was in France. Start date was June 6 1944, and the end date was August 30, 1944.

Feb 4, 1945

Yalta Conference

This was a meeting with three of the world war 3 allies Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin. This was for them to discuss Europe’s post-war reorganization. This war was held in Crimea.