World War II Battles

Antiquity

Marathon, Salamis, Arbeles, Cannae, Alesia, Actium

Middle Ages

Poitiers, Hastings, Bouvines, Crecy, Grunwald, Agincourt, Orleans, Constantinople

1501 -1800

Marignano, Lepanto, Spanish Armada, Rocroi, Vienna, Fontenoy, Plassey, Quebec

Napoléon Bonaparte

Pyramids, Trafalgar, Austerlitz, Jena, Leipzig, Waterloo

End of 19th Century

Gettysburg, Civil War, Sadowa, Koniggratz, Sedan, Spanish-American War

1901-1914 and WWI

Tsushima, Tannenberg, Marne, Verdun, Passchendaele

World War II

Battle of Britain, Pearl Harbor, Midway, El Alamein, Dieppe, Stalingrad, Normandy

1950 - 2000

Korean War, Dien Bien Phu, Sinai, Khe Sanh, Saigon, Gulf War, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Post 9/11

War against terrorism, War in Iraq, Operations Telic, Iraqi Freedom, Enduring Freedom

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World War II Battles

DATE	Location / Name	Attackers	Defenders	Victory
1940	Battle of Britain (114 days)	Hitler and the German Luftwaffe 2 500 military airplanes	British Royal Air Force	Great Britain
1941	Attack on Pearl Harbor	Japanese Aviation	United States of America	Japan
1942	Battle of Coral Sea (Two days)	Japanese Flotilla	American Flotilla	United States of America
1942	Battle of Midway	Isoroku Yamamoto 100 Japanese ships	Raymond Spruance Approx. 50 American ships	United States of America
1942	Battle of El Alamein	Erwin Rommel German Afrika Korps	Bernard Montgomery VIII British Army	Great Britain

1942	Dieppe Raid	Canada / Great Britain	Germany	Germany
1942 - 1943	Battle for Stalingrad	Friedrich Von Paulus 21 German divisions More than 100 000 soldiers	Union of Soviet Socialist Republic	Union of Soviet Socialist Republic
1944	D-Day: the Great Normandy Invasion	CANADA / GREAT BRITAIN / UNITED STATES / FREE FRANCE AND OTHER ALLIES	GERMANY	CANADA / GREAT BRITAIN / UNITED STATES / FREE FRANCE AND OTHER ALLIES
1944 - 1945	Battle of the Bulge	Germany 100 000 POWs 100 000 soldiers killed	Allied Forces	Allied Forces