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La batalla del Atlántico fue el enfrentamiento naval que tuvo como escenario de operaciones el océano Atlántico, prácticamente en toda su extensión, librada durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial entre los grandes navíos alemanes, los U-Boot comandados por el almirante Karl Dönitz y la casi totalidad de la escuadra británica. -
La Operación Dinamo (en inglés: Operation Dynamo), también conocida como milagro de Dunkerque o evacuación de Dunkerque, fue una operación de evacuación de las tropas aliadas en territorio francés (después de que Francia fuera derrotada por el ejército alemán) durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. -
La batalla de Inglaterra (en inglés, Battle of Britain; en alemán, Luftschlacht um England) es el nombre con el que se conoce al conjunto de combates aéreos librados en cielo británico y sobre el canal de la Mancha, entre julio y octubre de 1940, cuando Alemania buscó destruir a la Real Fuerza Aérea británica (RAF) con el fin de lograr la superioridad aérea necesaria para invadir Gran Bretaña: la Operación León Marino. -
the Blitz was an intense bombing campaign undertaken by Nazi Germany against the United Kingdom during World War II. For eight months the Luftwaffe dropped bombs on London and other strategic cities across Britain. -
Operation Barbarossa was the code name for the invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany and some of its Axis allies, which started on Sunday, 22 June 1941, during World War II. -
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States against the naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, just before 08:00, on Sunday, December 7, 1941. -
The Battle of the Coral Sea, from 4 to 8 May 1942, was a major naval battle between the Imperial Japanese Navy and naval and air forces of the United States and Australia. -
The Battle of Midway was a major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II that took place on 4–7 June 1942, six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea. -
In the Battle of Stalingrad Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) in Southern Russia. -
The Normandy landings were the landing operations and associated airborne operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. -
The Battle of Leyte Gulf is considered to have been the largest naval battle of World War II and, by some criteria, possibly the largest naval battle in history, with over 200,000 naval personnel involved.[ -
The Battle of the Bulge, also known as the Ardennes Offensive, was a major German offensive campaign on the Western Front during World War II which took place from 16 December 1944 to 25 January 1945. -
The Battle of Iwo Jima was a major battle in which the United States Marine Corps and United States Navy landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. -
The Battle of Okinawa codenamed Operation Iceberg: 17 was a major battle of the Pacific War fought on the island of Okinawa by United States Army and United States Marine Corps forces against the Imperial Japanese Army. The initial invasion of Okinawa on 1 April 1945 was the largest amphibious assault in the Pacific Theater of World War II. -
The United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6 and 9 August 1945, respectively. The two bombings killed between 129,000 and 226,000 people, most of whom were civilians, and remain the only use of nuclear weapons in armed conflict.