WWll

Battle of Guadalcanal

Aug 7, 1942

• 7 August 1942
• Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands
• Contries who fought: U.S., Australia, New Zealand, U.K., British Solomon Islands, Tonga, Fiji, Empire of Japan.
• The Allied powers won.
• 7100 Allied lives lost
• "The Allies intended to use Guadalcanal and Tulagi as bases to support a campaign to eventually capture or neutralize the major Japanese base at Rabaul on New Britain."

Battle of Stalingrad

Aug 23, 1942

• August 7 1942
• Stalingrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
• Countries who fought: Germany, Romania, Italy, Hungary, Croatia, Soviet Union
• Had a Soviet victory
• 478741 people from the Soviet Union died.

D-Day invasion

Jun 6, 1944

• Tuesday, 6 june 1944
• Took place in Normandy, France
• Contries who fought : U.K., U.S.A., Canada, Free France, Poland, Norway, Austrailia, New Zealand, Netherlands, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Greese, and Germany.
• Allied powers won.
• 4414 Allied lives lost
• "The invasion planners set forth a set of conditions regarding the phase of the moon, the tides, and the time of day that meant only a few days in each month were deemed suitable"

Battle of the Bulge

Dec 16, 1944

• 16 December 1944
• Ardennes
• Countries who fought: U.S., U.K., Canada, Belgium, Luxembourgish resistance, Free France, Germany.
• Allied powers won
• 19200 allied powers lost lives
• largest and bloodiest battle fought by the United States in World War II.

Battle of Iwo Jima

Feb 19, 1945

• Feb. 19 1945
• Iwo Jima, Japan
• U.S. V.S. Japan
• 6800 American lives lost.
• "One of the first objectives after landing on the beachhead was the taking of Mount Suribachi. At the second raising of a flag on the peak, Joe Rosenthal photographed five Marines raising the United States flag on the fourth day of the battle (February 23). The photograph was extremely popular."