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Ended in May 1945
The Allies had to keep the vital flow of men and supplies between North America and Europe, and the Germans wanted to cut these lines. Eventually, the improved equipment and tactics of the Allies finally helped turn the tide of the battle in their favor and win. -
Ended on October 31 1940
It was between Britain’s Royal Air Force and the Luftwaffe; which was Nazi’s Air Force. These Air Forces battled for control of air space over Great Britain, Germany, and the English Channel. The Luftwaffe then became weak; they couldn’t keep up with the demand for new fighter planes, or overcome the BAF’s overpowering technology. -
Ended on April 9 1942
During the battle, American and Filipino soldiers of General Douglas MacArthur’s United States Army Forces in the Far East held out for four months against the Imperial Japanese Army, while every other island and nation in the Pacific and Southeast Asia fell. They fought for months with little rations and supplies. But without these, they couldn’t hold out for long. -
Ended on July 6 1942
The Battle of Midway was an epic clash between the U.S. Navy and the Imperial Japanese Navy that played out six months after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Navy crypt analysts had begun breaking Japanese communication codes early in 1942, and knew for weeks ahead of time that Japan was planning an attack in the Pacific at a location they called AF. -
Ended in February 9 1943
With Japanese troops stationed in this section of the Solomon Islands, U.S. marines launched a surprise attack in August 1942 and took control of an air base under construction. However, the Japanese suffered a far greater toll of casualties, forcing their withdrawal from Guadalcanal by February 1943. -
Ended on February 2 1943
The Battle of Stalingrad was a military campaign between Russian forces and those of Nazi and the Axis powers. By February 1943, Russian troops had retaken Stalingrad and captured nearly 100,000 German troops. The Axis had lost another war. -
Ended on November 16 1942
Operation Torch was the invasion of French Morocco and Algeria during the North African Campaign of World War II. The invasion went on for a couple days, then urged by General Mark Clark, Eisenhower's deputy, and other leaders ordered French forces to cease armed resistance in Oran and Morocco on November 10–11. -
On June 6th, 1944 156,000 American, British, and Canadian forces landed on 5 beaches along a 50 mile stretch of heavily fortified coast of France’s Normandy region. Hitler, believing the invasion was a feint designed to distract the Germans from a coming attack north of the Seine River, refused to release nearby divisions to join the counterattack. -
Ended on October 26 1944
The Battle of Leyte followed the Allied landing at the Philippine island of Leyte in October 1944. The aerial and naval battle conducted as Allied forces invaded the Philippines began with Leyte Island on October 20. -
Ended on January 25 1945
The Battle of Bulge lasted six weeks from December 16th, 1944 to January 25, 1945. The battle took place during frigid weather conditions, with around 30 German divisions attacking tired American troops across 85 miles of the densely wooded Ardennes Forest. The war ended less than five months later with Germany’s May 7 surrender. -
Ended on March 26 1945
The Battle of Iwo Jima was an epic military campaign between U.S. Marines and the Imperial Army of Japan in early 1945. Although they significantly outnumbered their Japanese enemies on the island, many Americans were wounded or killed over the five weeks of fighting, with some estimates suggesting more than 25,000 casualties, including nearly 7,000 deaths. -
Ended on June 22 1945
The Battle of Okinawa which was from April 1, 1945 to June 22, 1945 was the last major battle of World War II, and one of the bloodiest. Truman ordered the bombing of Nagasaki on August 9. Finally, Japan had had enough. On August, 14, 1945, Emperor Hirohito announced Japan’s surrender, marking the end of World War II.
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