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Invasion of Poland
The Poland Campaign in Germany, was an invasion of Poland by Germany, the Soviet Union, and a small Slovak contingent. It succeded due to Poland's outdated equipment. -
Battle of the Atlantic
The Battle of the Atlantic was the longest continuous military campaign[4][5] in World War II, running from 1939 to the defeat of Germany in 1945. At its core was the Allied naval blockade of Germany, announced the day after the declaration of war, and Germany's subsequent counter-blockade. -
Invasion of France
The Invasion of France was when the Nazis captured France and the Low Countries. -
Battle of Britain
The Battle of Britain was the bombing of Great Britain by the German Army. It ended when the Birtish Air Force rebuilt and responded. -
Operation of Sealion
The Operation of Sealion was a plan to invade the united kingdom. Operation of Sealion was indefintely postponed because Hitler thought it not viable. -
Operation Barbarossa
Operation Barbarossa was an attempt by the Nazi German Army to capture the Soviet Union. It failed due to the harsh winter, underestimated Soviet response time, and lack of supplies. -
Battle of Leningrad
The Siege of Leningrad, also known as the Leningrad Blockade (Russian: блокада Ленинграда, transliteration: blokada Leningrada) was a prolonged military operation resulting from the failure of the German Army Group North to capture Leningrad, now known as Saint Petersburg, in the Eastern Front theatre of World War II. -
Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor was atttacked by 353 Japanese fighters, in order to prevent the United States from interfering with Japanese attacks on overseas territories. -
Battle of Coral Sea
The Battle of the Coral Sea, fought from 4–8 May 1942, was a major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II between the Imperial Japanese Navy and Allied naval and air forces from the United States and Australia. -
Battle of Midway
Widely regarded as the most important naval battle of the Pacific campaign of WW2, the Battle of Midway was when the US Navy defeated an Imperial Japanese Navy fleet at the Midway Atoll. -
Battle of Guadalcanal
The Allied campaign was launched about the same time in late July as the Australian defenders set out to block the Japanese advance over the mountains from Buna in the Battle for the Kokoda Track and both had the same purpose: prevent the Japanese from adding new strategically important air fields to their vast networked base system in defense of the Sea lines of communication (SLOC)— so as to protect Australia from being cut off from the Americas, from India, and from invasion by the enemy. -
Battle of Stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad was a major battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) in southwestern Russia. -
Operation Torch
Operation Torch was an invasion of North Africa by allied forces in 1942, in preparation for a 1943 invasion of Occupied Europe. -
Anzio Landings
The Anzio Landings were intended to outflank German forces of the Winter Line and enable an attack on Rome. The resulting combat is commonly called the Battle of Anzio. -
D-Day
The Normandy landings were an invasion of Normandy by the Allies. It occured on D-Day, which was a codename for June 6th 1944. -
Operation Market Garden
Operation Market Garden (17–25 September 1944) was an unsuccessful Allied military operation, fought in the Netherlands and Germany in the Second World War. It was the largest airborne operation up to that time -
Battle of the Bulge
The Battle of the Bulge was a major German offensive (die Ardennenoffensive), launched toward the end of World War II through the densely forested Ardennes mountain region of Wallonia in Belgium. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
The Battle of Iwo Jima (19 February–26 March 1945), or Operation Detachment, was a major battle in which the United States fought for and captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Empire of Japan. -
Battle of Okinawa
Codenamed Operation Iceberg, The Battle of Okinowa was an invasion of a Japanese island called Okinawa, which would provide a base of operations for air support for the invasion of Japan. -
Battle for Berlin
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. -
Nagasaki and Hiroshima
During the final stages of World War II in 1945, the United States conducted two atomic bombings against the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan, the first on August 6, 1945, and the second on August 9, 1945. These two events are the only use of nuclear weapons in war to date