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The Nazis invaded Poland on 1 September 1939. The Nazis justified the invasion by suggesting that Poland had been planning to invade Germany, and with false reports that Poles were persecuting ethnic Germans. On the 17 September, the Soviet Union joined forces with Germany and invaded Poland. The German invasion of Poland was a primer on how Hitler intended to wage war and that would become the blitzkrieg strategy.
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The Battle of the Atlantic was the struggle between the Allied and German forces for control of the Atlantic Ocean. The Allies needed to keep the vital flow of men and supplies going between North America and Europe, where they could be used in the fighting, while the Germans wanted to cut these supply lines. The Battle of Atlantic was one of the most important campaigns of the second world war. it certainly the longest, lasting 2074 days.
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The Battle of France, also known as The Fall of France, was a battle that took place during the Second World War in May of 1940. German forces invaded areas of France pushing the British and French Forces back to the sea in Operation Dynamo. The French air forces were no match for the Germans in aerial combat. The French army was unable to cope and were defeated. https://totallyhistory.com/the-battle-of-france/#:~:text=The%20Battle%20of%20France%2C%20also,the%20sea%20in%20Operation%20Dynamo.
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The immediate context of the Dunkirk evacuation was Germany's invasion of the Low Countries and northern France in May 1940. On May 10 the German blitzkrieg attack on the Netherlands began with the capture by parachutists of key bridges deep within the country, with the aim of opening the way for mobile ground forces. When it ended on June 4, about 198,000 British and 140,000 French and Belgian troops had been saved. -
Hitler ordered the invasion of the Soviet Union, which was code-named Operation Barbarossa, on June 22, 1941, deliberately breaking the nonaggression pact that the two countries had signed two years before. The invasion was the largest German military operation of World War II. By the end of the year, German troops had advanced almost 1,000 miles to the outskirts of Moscow. Soon after the invasion, mobile killing units began the mass murder of Soviet Jews. -
During World War II, on April 18th, 1942 the Unites States launched the first air raid on the Japanese home islands. The purpose of this raid was for retaliation against Japans attack on Pearl Harbor. Their mission was to attack the Japanese military targets and move to land in China. The raid caused negligible material damage on japan and killed 50 people and 400 injured.
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It was the first pure carrier-versus-carrier battle in history as neither surface fleet sighted the other. Though a draw, it was an important turning point in the war in the Pacific because, for the first time, the Allies had stopped the Japanese advance. it was a major naval battle in the pacific ocean during world war ii. Although both side sufferer damages to their carriers, the battle left the Japanese without enough planes to cover the ground attack of Port Moresby.
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The successful recapture by U.S troops of Corregidor island, marking the fall of the Philippines. The U.S. Lieutenant General Jonathan Wainwright surrenders all U.S. troops in the Philippines to the Japanese. The island of Corregidor remained the last Allied stronghold in the Philippines after the Japanese victory at Bataan. The major goal was reopening Manila Bay, and the final step in doing this was to retake Corregidor, the rugged island fortress guarding the mouth of the bay. -
Operation Torch was the Anglo-American invasion of French Morocco and Algeria during the North African Campaign of World War II. It began on November 8 and concluded on November 16, 1942. The invasion forces had to overcome French opposition in territories controlled by the Vichy Regime under Marshall Philippe Petain. Operation Torch marked the largest American campaign to date in the Atlantic theater, and the first major operation carried out jointly and combined by U.S. and the UK. -
American forces invade and took control of the Marshall islands, long occupied by the Japanese and used by them as a base for military operation. The Marshall Islands Campaign was the first time that the Americans captured pre-war Japanese territory, and was made up of two main parts Operation Flintlock, the conquest of Kwajalein and Operation Catchpole, the conquest of Eniwetok. They were the first steps of the drive across the central pacific by the United States pacific fleet and marine corps -
The Casablanca Conference was a meeting between U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in the city of Casablanca, Morocco. The Casablanca took place just two months after the Anglo-American landings in French North Africa. At this meeting, Roosevelt and Churchill focused on coordinating Allied military strategy against the Axis powers over the course of the coming year.
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The allies decided to move nest against Italy, hoping an allied inversion would remove that fascist regime from war. The Allies’ Italian Campaign began with the invasion of Sicily. After 38 days of fighting, the U.S. and Great Britain successfully drove German and Italian troops from Sicily and prepared to assault the Italian mainland.
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The Battle of the Bulge started on December 16, 1944, when German forces launched a surprise attack on Allied forces in the forested Ardennes region in Belgium, Luxembourg, and France. The battle lasted until January 16, 1945, after the Allied counteroffensive forced German troops to withdraw. While the battle was intended to split allied lines and force negotiated peace, American forces were able to contain the battle and inflict heavier losses on German forces.
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he Battle of Iwo Jima was an epic military campaign between U.S. Marines and the Imperial Army of Japan in early 1945. Located 750 miles off the coast of Japan, the island of Iwo Jima had three airfields that could serve as a staging facility for a potential invasion of mainland Japan. After the battle, Iwo Jima served as an emergency landing site for more than 2,200 U.S. airmen. Securing Iwo Jima prepared the way for the last and largest battle in the pacific.
