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battle of France/miracle of Dunkirk
- One french word that was burned into Winston Churchill's head was "Aucune" 2.The french where fighting a hopeless battle to cover for the evocation
- 68,000 where killed or captured or wounded 4.on May 24 Adof Hitler gave the order to halt the advance of German panzer divisions bearing down on Dunkirk 5.On the evening of May 26, the British began the evacuation from Dunkirk, using the codename Operation Dynamo
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Battle of Britain
- There where around 1700 lost German air force planes
- There where 2662 German men lost or never fully recovered
- When Hitler was planing to attack they had to come up with a code name so people where not able to find out about it. The code name for Hitler's invasion plans was Operation Sea Lion 4.To prevent many deaths when the British pilots they saw a bomber plane in the air they would purposely fly right into the plane to destroy it. 5.The Germans bombed after the was what over
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Battle of Leningrad
- the siege of Leningrad had killed an estimated 800,000 civilians
- a German army surrounded the city of Leningrad in an extended siege beginning that September
3.The battle took place during the last part of 1942 and early 1943. After months of fighting and finally nearly starving to death, the Germans surrendered on February 2, 1943
4.The battle began with the German air force, the Luftwaffe, bombing the Volga River
5.500,000 Russians have died in the battle of Leningrad
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Battle of Stalingrad
- The Soviets recovered 250,000 German and Romanian corpses 2.Germans, Romanians, Italians, and Hungarians had around 800,000 dead or captured 3.around 91,000 German soldiers where captured 4.General Zhukov would lead the Soviet Union to many more victories by the end of World War II 5.The Battle of Stalingrad was a result of Hitler’s decision to invade the Soviet Union without any declaration of war. The German offensive operation was known as Operation Barbarossa.
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Operation Torch Battle
- the deaths where kept to a lower number about 500 dead and 700 injured. 2.America joined in the war on 1941 and agreed with British that they should take Hitler before Japan 3.Rommel launched his attack in a rain storm in the early hours of 19 February 4.The town of Thala was vital to the Allied armies. If it was captured by the Germans then communication routes would be severed and US troops, including the 9th Infantry Division 5.On Fab 24 the vital valley was in allied hands
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D-Day Battle
- over 425,000 soldiers where dead or captured 2.American troops storm the beaches of Normandy, France, on June 6, 1944
- D-Day was the largest amphibious invasion in history. More than 160,000 Allied troops about half of them Americans invaded Western Europe 4.more than 2,200 allied bombers conducted a mostly ineffective air bombardment of the beaches and inland 5.In January 1944, General Dwight Eisenhower was appointed commander of Operation Overlord
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Battle of The Bulge
1.Between 67,200 and 125,000 of their men were killed, missing, or wounded in action
2. For the Americans, out of 610,000 troops involved in the battle, 89,000 were casualties. While some sources report that up to 19,000 were killed
3.The Battle of the Bulge, fought over the winter months of 1944 – 1945, was the last major Nazi offensive against the Allies in World War Two
4.The fight was in The Ardennes, Belgium, Luxembourg, and Germany.
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Battle of Berlin
- There where about 1,298,745 casualties in the war. 2.The last major offensive of the war in Europe, the Battle of Berlin saw the fall of the German Army, the suicide of Hitler and the beginning of the end of the Second World War 3.Around 150,000 Polish soldiers fought alongside the Soviet Union 4.Soviets attacked along the Oder River near Berlin. They quickly defeated the German forces outside Berlin and advanced on the city. 5.The soviets where about to destroy the Germans and win the war
