Major Battles of World War II

Pearl Harbor

• Japanese surprise attack

• Hitler declared war on USSR

Battle of Britain

• Germans surround GB and France

• RAF vs Luftwaffe

Beginning of WW II

• Germans caught in Russian Winter

• Invasion of Poland

Controversial decision made by President Harry Truman

• Hiroshima/Nagasaki

• Last Major Nazi offense

Battle for the Suez Canal

• El Alamein

• Biggest bank battle of WW II

Last major Nazi offense; attempt to split Allies

• Battle of Berlin

• Battle of the Bulge

Unsuccessful attempt to by Germany to take Soviet captial

• Battle of Moscow

• Dunkirk

Operation Dynamo

• Dunkirk

• Operation Barbarossa

Operation Barbarossa

• Japanese Squadron Vs US Squad

• Hitler declares war on the Soviet Union

Major victory of the USSR that stopped the German Advance

• Stalingrad

• Battle of Berlin