The Battle Of Dunkirk

Dunkirk is a town in the north of France

The battle of Dunkirk started on May 26 - June 4, 1940
It was between the Nazis and allies
The Nazi’s were try to take over France with tanks
The British allies were about to be attacked
made a plan called operation Dynamo which transported the men from Dunkirk to England
338,226 men were evacuated within three days with around 800 boats.

Operation Barbarossa

June 22nd 1941

Operation Barbarossa was the invasin lead by the nazi party in soveit russia.
They wanted to conquer and make them slaves. repopulated it with Germans.
Russia’s weather intervened in the assault, heavy rains turned the run roads into morasses. In
the later months, the mud froze over letting the drivers continue, when they got there though it
was cold and the soldiers didn’t have winter clothes.
The Germans struggled to the gates of Moscow where Soviet counter attacks stopped them in
early December. In desperate conditions, they conducted a slow retreat as Soviet attacks
threatened to envelop much of their forces in a defeat as disastrous as that which befell
Napoleon’s Grand Army in 1812
Barborssa was a turning point in World War II, for its failure forced Nazi Germany to fight a two-
front war against a coalition possessing immensely superior resources.
800k soviets died, 6 million were wounded or captured, 775,000 germans died.

Stalingrad

The Battle of Stalingrad started on August 23rd 1942 through February 2nd 1943.Germany and
its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) in Southern
Russia. This is one of the bloodiest battles in the history of warfare, with an estimated 2 million
total casualties. In the middle of World War II (having captured territory in much of present-day
Ukraine and Belarus in the spring of 1942) Germany’s Wehrmacht forces decided to mount an
offensive on southern Russia in the summer of that year.Under the leadership of ruthless head
of state Joseph Stalin, Russian forces had already successfully rebuffed a German attack on
the western part of the country (one that had the ultimate goal of taking Moscow)during the
winter of 1941-42. However, Stalin’s Red Army had suffered significant losses in the fighting,
both in terms of manpower and weaponry.
Chuikov recalled the grim moment: “When I got to army headquarters I was in a vile mood.
Three of my deputies had fled… But the main thing was that we had no dependable combat
units, and we needed to hold out for three or four days…We immediately began to take the
harshest possible actions against cowardice. On the 14th I shot the commander and commissar
of one regiment, and a short while later, I shot two brigade commanders and their commissars.
This caught everyone off guard. We made sure news of this got to the men.”Stalin and his
generals, including future Soviet Union leader Nikita Khrushchev, fully expected another Nazi
attack to be aimed at Moscow. However, Hitler and the Wehrmacht had other ideas.They set
their sights on Stalingrad, because the city served as an industrial center in Russia, producing,
among other important goods, artillery for the country’s troops. The Volga River, which runs
through the city, was also an important shipping route connecting the western part of the
country with its distant eastern regions. Russian forces were initially able to slow the German
Wehrmacht’s advances during a series of brutal skirmishes just north of Stalingrad. Stalin’s
forces lost more than 200,000 men, but they successfully held off German soldiers.With a firm
understanding of Hitler’s plans, the Russians had already shipped much of the stores of grain
and cattle out of Stalingrad. However, the city’s 400,000-plus residents were not evacuated, as
the Russian leadership believed their presence would inspire troops.On the snowy, foggy
morning of November 19, the Soviets struck. 1.2 million Soviet soldiers drove into the weakly
guarded flanks of the German Sixth Army. Within four days, they had encircled 300,000 Axis
soldiers, trapped in a frozen wasteland in and around Stalingrad. German attempts to break into
the pocket failed. Over the next three months, the Red Army began to squeeze the life out of
them. Efforts at supplying the kessel (cauldron) via air proved beyond the Luftwaffe’s declining
capabilities.By December, when German airlifts ceased, life in the kessel became a living hell.
As one German soldier recalled: “We were so weak and exhausted and there were so many
dead lying around in the open frozen stiff, that we could not bury our own comrades.”

Operation Mincemeat

In April 1943 during World War II, British intelligence officers managed to pull off one of the
most successful wartime deceptions ever achieved: Operation Mincemeat, It was a successful
British deception operation of the Second World War to disguise the 1943 Allied invasion of
Sicily.
The operation was planned by Charles Cholmondeley in early 1943. To execute the operation, a
body was brought up to deck and fitted with a life vest. A prayer was then read and the body
was dumped overboard. To make the crash believable, a rubber dinghy was thrown overboard.
Then the canister was then sent into the deep.
The documents were copied by spies and passed on to the Germans who believed that the U.S.
would attack Greece, Sardania, and Corsica. Then the documents were returned to the British
who confirmed that it had been opened.
As a result of the false intelligence carried by “William Martin,” the Nazis were caught unawares
when 160,000 Allied troops invaded Sicily on July 10, 1943, the operation also helped further
Italian leader Benito Mussolini’s downfall and turn the tide of the war towards an Allied victory in
Europe, and stopped the Salerno invasion from occurring.

Siege of Leningrad

After the nazis invaded the soivet union in the summer the germans made an army surrounded
the city of Leningrad in an extended and that's how it started
September 8, 1941 - January 27, 1944
Siege lifted by soviet forces
Location: Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soveit Union, which is now Saint Petersburg, Russia
In the winter 1941-1942 there was cannibalism
During WWII German forces began their siege of Leningrad, a major industrial center and the
USSR's second-largest city
1.2 million civilians died
1.4 million were rescued by the military
Hitler wanted to completely destroy the city and hand it to Finland because they were attacking
Russia
It had nearly as many as all the World War II deaths of the United States and the United
Kingdom combined.
Three million people went through the 900-day blockade
The ensuing German blockade and siege claimed 650,000 Leningrader lives in 1942 alone,
mostly from starvation, exposure, disease, and shelling from distant German artillery.
Leningrad’s entire able-bodied population was mobilized to build anti tank fortifications along the
city’s perimeter in support of the city’s 200,00 Red Army defenders
The battle only lasted 872 days but more than one million people died during this but most died
from hunger and that’s where the cannibalism came to play
The sum of this all is the Nazis messed with the wrong group and kept going on for a while
when hitler wanted to get back for hurting rusia, they starved because of the bombing and
destroyed everything….well almost everything and got 172 houses bombed because of russia.

Battle Of Britain

Between Britain’s Royal Air Force and the Luftwaffe (Nazi Air Force)
First battle in history fought solely in air
July 10 to October 31, 1940
For control of airspace over Britain, Germany, and the English Channel
Why Did the British Win the Battle of Britain?
They were defending their home territory, so were more motivated to succeed, and also knew
the local geography better than the invaders. The Dowding System’s pioneering use of radar
also contributed.

Significance of the Battle of Britain

The Battle of Britain was a turning point in World War II; if the RAF had not held off the
Luftwaffe, Hitler would have likely moved forward with his Operation Sea Lion invasion of the
British Isles. This would have been devastating to the British people and all efforts to stop
Hitler’s rise to power. Germany needed to control the English Channel to invade Britain, and the
battle prevented them from gaining that valuable control.
Herman Göring and the Luftwaffe
After World War I, the Treaty of Versailles forbade Germany to have an air force. With the help
of the Soviet Union, however, Germany secretly defied the treaty and trained air force pilots and
support staff on combat planes.When Adolf Hitler and his Third Reich came to power, Nazi
Germany began rebuilding their air force. He officially created the Luftwaffe in February 1935,
placing former World War I fighter pilot and political ally Hermann Göring in charge.