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Stalingrad
Who:

Germany and Russia

What:
Hitler wanted to capture Russia’s oil fields in Caucasus
...
During the battle the Germans
used their blitzkrieg tafgctic which worked at first but later failed
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When:

from August 23rd 1942- February 2nd 1943

Where:

The southern city of Stalingrad in Russia now called Volgograd

Why:
Hitler wanted to take Stalingrad away from the Russians because it was a major
industrial city and it would help secure the capture of the Caucasus region which supplied oil to
the Russians
...
Stalin of course wanted to protect this city since it was named after him and because it
oil, he also told them not to retreat which lead to a bloody battle
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What: The battle of Okinawa was a combination of air force attack, naval battles and on-land
attacks
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The battles at Okinawa continued until the ending of the
war (atomic bombings) and there were 190, 325 casualties of both civilian and troops from both
sides
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Where: In Okinawa on the Ryukyu islands and on the Pacific ocean
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if you want you can edit any of my mistakes, and if you want 2 talk 2 me than u gotta do that at
school cuz im not gonna be online and srry 4 my bad spelling and grammar
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-air force bombings from Allied air forces
Why:
-to make a large push through the German defenses and cripple them
-in short, to end the war
Dieppe
Who: Mostly Canadian Allies, Germans
When: August, 1942
Where: Dieppe, France
What:
-failed surprise attack in the dark thanks to a chance encounter with a German convoy
-went through with it anyway and lost maybe 60 or so percent of their soldiers
-largely considered a failure

Why:
-to find out if a sea attack was possible
-it is also thought that Churchill set up the attack to prove to the Russians that a push was
impossible at the time (basically, he may have known the entire time it would fail)

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Battles

When

Where

Who

What

Why

Battle of
Britain

10 July – 31
October 1940

United
Kingdom
airspace

Britain, Canada, France
, Germany and Italy

-Germanys attempt to gain
air superiority over England
so that they could launch a
seaborne attack against
England
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The Germans
wanted to start a
planned sea and air
invasion on Britain
during WW2
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The allies wanted this
supply line to be kept open
-Hitler’s U-boats
(submarines, boats) they
would destroy all the
conveys (supplies) that were
being sent to other countries
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-he didn’t want them
to trade supplies to
Britain and other
countries

Hong
Kong

December
7, 1941

Hong Kong

Two Canadian
battalions,
Japanese

300/200 soldiers killed
-huge loss
-Canadians had no chance
-bad decision but Churchill
-only infantry

-to provide moral
support for china
-prevent further
Japanese invasions

D-Day

June 6,
1944

Normandy

Allied forces,
Germans

Misinformation campaign
-massive push
-heavy artillery from navy
and bombs from air force

Dieppe

August
1942

Dieppe,
France

Canadians, allies,
Germans

-meant to be a surprise
attack in the dark but a
chance encounter with a
convey prevented that
-pushed through anyways
&lost maybe 6% of their
soldiers
-complete failure

-to find if a sea
attack was possible

Midway

4–7 June
1942

Midway
Atoll

U
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-It was the turning point of
the Pacific Theater of
WWII
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outgunned the remnants
of the US Navy
It is also when the US
went from a defensive
posture to an offensive
one

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