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World War 2
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Code Yellow begins
Germans sent armored units through Ardennes to cut off and surround the allied units. Britian and France were pushed back to the sea. -
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Battle of France
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Operation of Dynamo
the evacuation of Allied soldiers from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk, France. -
Code Red Begins
Germanys second opperation took out the rest of frances forces and ended their orginized military resistance. -
Armistice signed between France and Germany
an agreement that saidGermany would occupy the north and west, Italy would control a small Italian occupation zone in the southeast, and an unoccupied zone, the zone libre, would be governed by the newly formed Vichy government. -
Battle of Britian
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Battle of Britan
first major campaign to be fought entirely by air forces and was also the largest and most sustained aerial bombing campaign to that date. -
Operation barbossa
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Operation Barbossa
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Battle of moscow
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Battle of Moscow
The Soviet defensive effort frustrated Hitler's attack on Moscow, capital of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the largest Soviet city. -
Battle of Midway
The Japanese plan to lure the United States' aircraft carriers into a trap.The Japanese also intended to occupy Midway as part of an overall plan to extend their defensive perimeter in response to the Doolittle air raid on Tokyo. -
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Guadalcanal Campaign
The Guadalcanal campaign was a significant strategic combined arms victory by Allied forces over the Japanese in the Pacific theatre. The Japanese had reached the high-water mark of their conquests in the Pacific, and marked the transition by the Allies from defensive operations to the strategic offensive in that theatre and the beginning of offensive operations, that resulted in Japan's eventual surrender and the end of ww2 -
Battle of Stalingrad
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Battle of Stalingrad
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. Marked by constant close quarters combat and disregard for military and civilian casualties, it is amongst the bloodiest battles in the history of warfare -
Trident Confrence
The plans for the Italian Campaign, air attacks on Nazi Germany, Pacific War and a date for invading Europe were agreed upon -
Battle of Kursk
The Germans hoped to weaken the Soviet offensive potential for the summer of 1943 by cutting off a large number of forces that they anticipated would be in the Kursk salient assembling for an offensive. -
D-Day
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Operation Overload
the Allied operation that launched the successful invasion of German-occupied western Europe. -
Operation Dragoon starts
allied nations parachute drop and German Army Group G abandons southern France and retreats under constant Allied attacks to the Vosges Mountains. -
Liberation of Paris starts
French Resistance uprose against the German garrison and take back paris. -
Battle of Leyte Gulf
United States troops invaded the island of Leyte as part of a strategy aimed at isolating Japan from the countries it had occupied in Southeast Asia, and in particular depriving its forces and industry of vital oil supplies. -
Hiroshima
The Japanese fought on even after the war in Europe ended. Truman decided to use the newly developed atomic bomb to end the war quickly and prevent more U.S. casualties. The Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima killing about 78,000 people and injuring 100,000 more. -
Nagasaki,
a second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, killing another 40,000 people.
