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5 July 1943 – 23 August 1943

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The Battle of Kursk was a turning point in the war on the Eastern Front. The Germans had failed to reach their objectives and they had suffered huge losses.

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The climax of Operation Citadel, the Battle of Kursk, involved as many as 6,000 tanks, 4,000 aircraft and 2 million fighting men and is remembered as the greatest tank battle in history.

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At the end of the fighting in Kursk, the German forces had suffered 200,000 casualties and lost 500 tanks, while Soviet losses amounted to 860,000 casualties and 1,500 tanks.

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The Battle of Kursk was a Second World War engagement between German and Soviet

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The Germans suffered 56,000 casualties; the Soviets, 177,000.

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It was the biggest tank battle in history

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The Battle of El Alamein marked the culmination of the North African campaign between the forces of the British Empire and the German-Italian army commanded in the field by Erwin Rommel in World War II.

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El Alamein is the start of a string of attacks against the Axis Forces eventually pushing them back into Europe. They freed Africa from the Axis Forces and ensured the Allies would have oil.

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The German commander Erwin Rommel started the battle by wanting to flank from Libya to egypt

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Bernard Montgomery was the commander of Britain and always had a picture of Erwin Rommel on his turret so if he ever came to meet him he would remember him and kill him.

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This battle took place in El Alamein, Egypt.

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The map

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The Battle of El Alamein was one of the most important of the Second World War.

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The Battle of Britain marked the first defeat of Hitler's military forces.

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This battle was caused because the Italians invaded Egypt so the allies wanted to reclaim it

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The Battle of Britain was the first major campaign to be fought entirely by air forces, and was also the largest and most sustained aerial bombing campaign to that date

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Dates: 23 Oct 1942 – 11 Nov 1942

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Hitler wanted to invade Britain.If Hitler was going to mount an invasion of Britain, he would have to find a way to defend his invasion barges from attack.

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30000 tonnes of bombes on London.

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In the event, the battle was won by the Royal Air Force (RAF) Fighter Command, whose victory

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The Germans sixth Army lost the battle

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“Darkest Hour" is a phrase coined by British prime minister Winston Churchill to describe the period of World War II between the Fall of France in June 1940. (totalling 363 days, or 11 months and 28 days)

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2662 German casualties

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The Nazi chose to invade Stalingrad because it was in the centre of the U.S.S.R.

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The Germans begin the first in a long series of bombing raids against Great Britain,.

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10 July 1940 – 31 October 1940

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It was apparently the best battle to the Soviet Union

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This battle was 76 years ago

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The Soviet  Union lost 20000 men

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They used the famous phrase ‘Not a step back’.

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The Germans started to freeze when it became winter because Hitler didn't supply them with winter clothes

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This Battle was between the Soviet Union (U.S.S.R) against the Nazi’s

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Started July 17 1942 to February 2 1943

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Pearl Harbour is a U.S naval base near Honolulu,Hawaii

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The Battle of Okinawa was the last major battle of World War II, and one of the bloodiest.

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It also resulted in the largest casualties with over 100,000 Japanese casualties and 50,000 casualties for the Allies.

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It was the largest amphibious landing in the Pacific theater of World War II.

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The battle of Pearl Harbor was in 1941 December
7th

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Kamikaze missions were used in the battle of Okinawa.

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The Battle of Okinawa, codenamed Operation Iceberg, was a major battle of the Pacific War fought on the island of Okinawa by United States Marine and Army forces against the Imperial Japanese Army.

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The attack was a surprise attack planned by the imperial Japanese Navy
air service

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1 April 1945 – 22 June 1945

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United States Marine and Army forces against the Imperial Japanese Army.

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It was launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in eastern Belgium, northeast France, and Luxembourg, towards the end of World War II.

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Dec 16th 1944- Jan 25th 1945

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The Pearl Harbors attack was the window of opportunity for the United America to get in on the action

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To German Commander,
NUTS!
The American Commander

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Canada, England and America fought in the battle of the bulge.

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German soldiers illegally wore American uniforms to sneak behind enemy lines.

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The Germans launch the last major offensive of the war, Operation Mist.