Major Batlles of WW2

  • Battle of Guadalcanal

    • Contries who fought: U.S., Australia, New Zealand, U.K., British Solomon Islands, Tonga, Fiji, Empire of Japan. -The Allied powers won. -7100 members of the Allied Powers lost their lives. -Took place in Guadalcanal in Solomon Islands -Allies' intended use of Guadalcanal and Tulagi as bases to capture Japanese base at Rabaul.
  • Battle of Stalingard

    • Stalingrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
    • Countries who fought: Germany, Romania, Italy, Hungary, Croatia, Soviet Union
    • Soviet Union won this battle -478741 people from the Soviet Union died. -
  • D-Day

    • Took place in Normandy, France
    • Contries who fought were: U.K., U.S.A., Canada, Free France, Poland, Norway, Austrailia, New Zealand, Netherlands, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Greece, and Germany.
    • Allied powers won this war, which is good.
    • 4414 total Allied lives lost
    • The people who planned the invasion used the benifits of the phase of the moon, the tides, and the time of day, which meant only a few days in each month were deemed suitable"
  • Battle of The Bulge

    -Located in Ardennes
    -Countries who fought were: U.S., U.K., Canada, Belgium, Luxembourgish resistance, Free France, Germany.
    -The Allied Powers won.
    -Bloodiest and largest of all wars fought by USA in WW2.
    - 19200 People from the Allied Powers lost their lives.
  • Battle of Iwo Jima

    -Located on Iwo Jima, Japan.
    - 6800 American Soldiers lost their lives.
    - The first objective after reaching Iwo Jima was to capture Mount Suribachi. Then they took a photo of US Marines rasing a US flag. The pic was very popular.