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The Battle of the Atlantic was the longest continuous military campaign in World War II, running from 1939 to the defeat of Germany in 1945
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The German Air Force waged the second World War Campaign against the United Kingdom during Autumn and Summer of 1940. The Battle of Britain was the first major campaign to be fought entirely by air forces, and was also the largest and most sustained aerial bombing camp to that date.
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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.
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The Battle of Anzio was a battle of the Italian Campaign of World War II that took place from January 22, 1944, with the Allied amphibious landing known as Operation Shingle to June 5, 1944, with the capture of Rome
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On June 6, 1944, D-Day, General Dwight Eisenhower led U.S. and Allied troops in an invasion of Normandy, France, and Belgium. They also went into Germany while Russian troops fought from the east. Germany finally surrendered on May 7, 1945.
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On June 22, 1941, four million troops rushed over the Russian border. Half of the million Russians had already been killed, captured, or wounded within one to two months.The Germans made great advances into Russia (Moscow, Leningrad, and Stalingrad)
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Operation Market Garden was an unsuccessful Allied military operation, fought in the Netherlands and Germany in the Second World War.
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This war was one of the last battles before Germany surrender, America joined this battle to help push Germany back and defeat Hitler. Bad winter weather extended this battle.
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The Battle of Berlin, designated the Berlin Strategic Offensive Operation by the Soviet Union, was the final major offensive of the European theatre of World War II.
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Marking the Allied victory in Europe in 1945.