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Major Battles World War II
Atlantic Campaign – Battle of Britain
• German’s air attacked England, trying to get them to surrender
• England fought back• England used radar
for first time• Germany lost 2,300+
planes• England lost 800
Atlantic Campaign – Dunkirk Evacuation
• British troops evacuated 200,000 British and 100,000 French troops from beaches of Dunkirk
• Troops had been trapped by Germans
• Took 9 days, civilians helped out
Atlantic Campaign – Battle of Stalingrad
• Germany fought Allies in Soviet Union
• Hitler forbad troops from surrendering, but the commanding officer ignored him
• Over 190,000 died from battle and starvation
Atlantic Campaign – D-Day
• June 6, 1944• Video - http://www.army.mil/d-day/
• 160,000 Allied troops landed on 50 mile stretch of German controlled French beaches.
• General Eisenhower in charge
• 5,000 ships and 13,000 aircraft supported invasion
• 9,000 Allied soldiers died, but 100,000 started to march towards Germany and Hitler.
General Dwight D. Eisenhower
• Supreme commander of troops at D-Day invasion.
• President of the United States from 1953-1961.
Atlantic Campaign – Battle of Bulge
• German troops surprised attacked US in Belgium.
• Tried to divide the Allies, did not work.
• Encircled troops, looked like a bulge.
• Germany lost battle.• American’s lost
81,000+, Germany lost 100,000
Pacific Campaign – Battle of Midway
• Japanese planned to attack island, we knew, went to stop them.
• American’s won, losing 1 ship while Japanese lost 4.
• Turning point in the Pacific war!
Pacific Campaign – Battle of Guadalcanal
• America’s first counter attack in the Pacific.
• Fighting for control of island took a long time and was very difficult.
• American’s finally won!
Pacific Campaign – Battle of Iwo Jima• Japanese fought to the
death.• Island encompasses 8
square miles.• 24,000+ American
Casualties, 6,800 deaths.
• Only 212 Japanese taken prisoner out of 22,000.
Pacific Campaign – Battle of Okinawa
• Japanese ordered to hold island at any cost
• Kamikaze – suicide pilots – used a lot
• American’s: 7,300+ died, 32,000+ wounded.
• Japanese: 107,000 died, 7,400 prisoner
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