North African Front
Battle of the Bulge
Battle of Stalingrad
D-Day
Iwo Jima
Battle of Okinawa
Battles with Japan
Battle of the Atlantic
Battle of Midway
Italian Campaign
American torpedo planes and dive bombers attack Japanese forces
-Allied attack on German-occupied France (Normandy) in order to liberate Paris and then France -Largest land-sea-air operation in army history -Air and sea bombardment by the Allies on the Germans
-German U-Boat attack on Allied supply ships -Allies use sonar to locate and destroy German U-Boats -Allies use convoy system for protection
-Capture of Sicily in 1943 -War front where the Tuskegee Airmen fought -Campaign during which Benito Mussolini was forced to resign -Allied failed effort to free Italy
U.S. against Japan; kamikaze attacks
-Germans fighting Soviets -Soviet victory due to: 1. brutal weather 2. Massive Soviet counterattack 3. Hitler's refusal to order German retreat
-Britain and United States fighting Germany in "Operation Torch" -Led by American General Dwight D. Eisenhower -Ended with the surrender of Afrika Corps.
>4 week battle between Japanese and American Marines in Japan -Allies strategy: Island Hopping
-German attempt to break and split American and British forces to cut off supply lines (creating a "Bulge") -Major German loss of troops and military supplies
Japanese troops entrenched in tunnels and caves