Major European Theater Battles

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  • Battle of Britain

    Battle of Britain
    -Saw the British Royal Air Force - Known as the Luftwaffe
    - German fighter plane was the Messerschmitt Bf 109 - Radar helped to repel German forces -A campaign know as the Blitz
  • Battle of France

    Battle of France
    -known as the Fall of France -German Invasion of France
    - German forces defeated Allied forces - Bringing the Western Front to an end
  • Battle of Stalingrad

    Battle of Stalingrad
    -Two million casualties - Bloodiest battle in History -Battle arose out
    -intense street fighting -Defeating the Italian, Hungarian, and Romanian
  • Battle of Leningrad

    Battle of Leningrad
    -900 day siege -Soviet Union by German and Finnish
    - Lasted 872 days
  • Operation Torch

    Operation Torch
    -Operation Torch was the name of French North Africa -First time the British and Americans had jointly worked together -Remained strongly opposed to the landings.
  • Battle of Bulge

    Battle of Bulge
    -Offensive Operation -Swept through the Ardennes forest
    -capture the port city - Poor weather - Attempted to disguise themselves as a Allied troop.
  • D-Day

    D-Day
    -The largest assault in History -Dwight Eisenhower's forces attacked the German Atlantic Wall - Allied forces erected
    -transporting goods to France
  • Battle of Berlin

    Battle of Berlin
    -Last major battle Outnumbered the Germans
    -Primarily fought between the German Army and the Soviet
    -German Soldiers were sick, wounded, or hungry
    -The German army and the death of Adolf Hitler -resounding Victory -81,000 soviet soldiers killed -280,000 were wounded -92,000 German Soldiers were killed - 220,000 were wounded. 22,000 German Civilians were killed.