European Theater by Abby Howell

  • Battle of the Atlantic

    Battle of the Atlantic
    This battle was against the Germans, Great Britian, and the French,they faught this battle on U-boats in the Atlantic Ocean. This battle happened because the allies navy were trying to supply convoys across the Atlantic Ocean, while German navy U-boats tried to cut off Great Britian.
  • Battle of Britain

    Battle of Britain
    The Battle of Britain was a battle between the British and the Germans. It was faught in British airspace. It was the first major campaign to be fought entirely by air forces and was also the largest and most sustained aerial bombing campaign to the date.
  • Battle of Stalingrad

    Battle of Stalingrad
    This battle was between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. It was a major battle of WW2 and was a truning point in the war. They were fighting for the control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Europe on the Eastern boundary of Europe.
  • Battle of El Alamein, Egypt

    Battle of El Alamein, Egypt
    This battle was faught bewteen the Italins and the Germans. It was faught in El Alamein,Egypt. The second battle of El alamein took place near the egyptian railway half of El Alamein. The allies victoriously marked a major turning point in the Western Desert campaign of the second world war.
  • Operartion Torch

    Operartion Torch
    this battle was faught bewteen the British and the French. It was faught in French Marocco and French Algeria. This was the British-American invasion of French North Africa during the North Africa campaign of the second world war.
  • Battle of Silicy Italy

    Battle of Silicy Italy
    The Allied invasion of Sicily, codenamed Operation Husky, was a major World War II campaign, in which the Allies took Sicily from the Axis Powers (Italy and Nazi Germany). It was a large scale amphibious and airborne operation, followed by six weeks of land combat. It launched the Italian Campaign.
  • Hitler commits suicide

    Hitler commits suicide
    Adolf Hitler killed himself by gunshot in his Führerbunker in Berlin.His wife Eva committed suicide with him by taking cyanide
  • Operation Overlord

    Operation Overlord
    Operation Overlord was the code name for the Battle of Normandy, the Allied operation that launched the successful invasion of German-occupied western Europe during World War II.
  • Battle of the Buldge

    Battle of the Buldge
    The Battle of the Bulge was a major German offensive campaign launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in Belgium, France, and Luxembourg on the Western Front toward the end of World War II in Europe.
  • VE Day

    VE Day
    Victory in Europe Day, generally known as V-E Day, VE Day or simply V Day was the public holiday celebrated on 8 May 1945 (7 May in Commonwealth realms) to mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces.[1] It thus marked the end of World War II in Europe