https://padlet.com/19kdo2/i0ttop3l6gw4 The Battles of WWII en-us 2018-03-05 19:02:41 UTC 2023-08-16 11:42:19 UTC hello@padlet.com 19kdo2 https://padlet.com/19kdo2/i0ttop3l6gw4/wish/238816023 Date: June 6, 1944
Location: Normandy, France
Summary: 
The landing operations (termed D-Day) of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. Allied was able to storm through and breach against Germany's forced and out of France. ]]> 2018-03-06 18:48:14 UTC https://padlet.com/19kdo2/i0ttop3l6gw4/wish/238816023 19kdo2 https://padlet.com/19kdo2/i0ttop3l6gw4/wish/238816735 Date: Dec. 16, 1944 - Jan. 25, 1945
Location: The Ardennes: Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany
Summary:
The Germans attempted to launch their last major offensive attack against the Allied of Operation Mist. Their hope was to push the Allied's front line into the west from northern France to northwestern Belgium.
This is known as the Ardennes Offensive, Battle of the Bulge.

]]> 2018-03-06 18:49:08 UTC https://padlet.com/19kdo2/i0ttop3l6gw4/wish/238816735 19kdo2 https://padlet.com/19kdo2/i0ttop3l6gw4/wish/238816896 Date: April 22 - May 1945
Location: Rhine River (Germany) Berlin
Summary:
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.]]> 2018-03-06 18:49:20 UTC https://padlet.com/19kdo2/i0ttop3l6gw4/wish/238816896 19kdo2 https://padlet.com/19kdo2/i0ttop3l6gw4/wish/238817261 Date: Spring of 1945
Location: Islands in the Pacifics
Summary: 
A military strategy employed by the Allies in the Pacific War against Japan and the Axis powers during World War II.  It is where forces only concentrate their resources, setting up military forces/ supplies, on strategically important islands. ]]> 2018-03-06 18:49:44 UTC https://padlet.com/19kdo2/i0ttop3l6gw4/wish/238817261 19kdo2 https://padlet.com/19kdo2/i0ttop3l6gw4/wish/238817380 Date: May 4, 1942 – May 8, 1942
Locations: Pacific Ocean
Summary: 
A major naval battle between the Imperial Japanese Navy and naval air forces of the United States and Australia.  It was the first battle over the sea in history as neither surface fleet sighted the other. Though a draw, it was an important turning point in the war in the Pacific because, for the first time, the Allies had stopped the Japanese advance. ]]> 2018-03-06 18:49:54 UTC https://padlet.com/19kdo2/i0ttop3l6gw4/wish/238817380 19kdo2 https://padlet.com/19kdo2/i0ttop3l6gw4/wish/238817642 Date: Jun 4, 1942 – Jun 7, 1942
Location: Midway Atoll
Summary: 
Another turning point, after the Battle of the Coral Sea, was when the Imperial Navy Japan had swept aside all of its enemies from the Pacific and the Indian oceans, but was stopped by the Allied. The Allies was able to, for the first time, win victory against Japan. ]]> 2018-03-06 18:50:17 UTC https://padlet.com/19kdo2/i0ttop3l6gw4/wish/238817642 19kdo2 https://padlet.com/19kdo2/i0ttop3l6gw4/wish/238819391 Date: Feb 19, 1945 – Mar 26, 1945
Locations: Iwo Jima, Tokyo, Japan
Summary:
It was the only large engagement of the war in which Allied forces suffered more casualties (dead plus wounded) than their Japanese counterparts. By 1945, the Allies were gaining ground in the Pacific theater.

]]> 2018-03-06 18:52:37 UTC https://padlet.com/19kdo2/i0ttop3l6gw4/wish/238819391 19kdo2 https://padlet.com/19kdo2/i0ttop3l6gw4/wish/238819734 Date: August 6-9, 1945
Location: Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Summary:
The firebombing of Tokyo alone killed 120,000 Japanese. A ground invasion would have resulted in nearly immeasurable more casualties.The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki gave Japanese leaders the excuse they needed to take the absolutely unthinkable action of surrendering. This led to the end of World War 2. ]]> 2018-03-06 18:53:04 UTC https://padlet.com/19kdo2/i0ttop3l6gw4/wish/238819734