Image

European Theater Battles

  • Battle of Britain

    Battle of Britain
    The Battle of Britain was a military campaign of WW2 in which the Royal Air Force and Fleet Air Arm of the Royal Navy defended the United Kingdom against large attacks by Nazi Germany's air force, the Luftwaffe.
  • Operation Barbarossa

    Operation Barbarossa
    Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa. It was the code name for the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union. The operation put into action Nazi Germany's goal of conquering the western Soviet Union to repopulate it with Germans.
  • Operation Torch

    Operation Torch
    Operation Torch was the Anglo-American invasion of French Morocco and Algeria during the North African Campaign of World War II. The French colonies in the area were dominated by the French, formally aligned with Germany but of mixed loyalties.
  • Operation Overlord

    Operation Overlord
    Operation Overlord was the codename for the Battle of Normandy. At dawn nearly 7,000 U.S. and British ships and craft carrying close to 160,000 troops lay off the Normandy beaches. The Allied operation that launched the successful invasion of German occupied Western Europe
  • Yalta Conference

    Yalta Conference
    The Yalta Conference which is also called The Crimea Conference is the code named Argonaut. It was the World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union to discuss the postwar reorganization of Germany and Europe.
  • The Battle of Berlin

    The Battle of Berlin
    The Battle of Berlin was the last major battle in Europe during World War II. It resulted in the surrender of the German army and an end to Adolf Hitler's rule. The Battle of Berlin designated the Berlin Strategic Offensive Operation by the Soviet Union, also known as the Fall of Berlin,