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Battle of Okinawa

Italian Campaign

D-Day

Battle of Stalingrad

Battles with Japan

Battle of the Atlantic

Battle of Midway

Iwo Jima

Battle of the Bulge

North African Front

Japanese troops entrenched in tunnels and caves

-German attempt to break and split American and British forces to cut off supply lines (creating a "Bulge") -Major German loss of troops and military supplies

-Germans fighting Soviets -Soviet victory due to: 1. brutal weather 2. Massive Soviet counterattack 3. Hitler's refusal to order German retreat

U.S. against Japan; kamikaze attacks

>4 week battle between Japanese and American Marines in Japan -Allies strategy: Island Hopping

American torpedo planes and dive bombers attack Japanese forces

-Capture of Sicily in 1943 -War front where the Tuskegee Airmen fought -Campaign during which Benito Mussolini was forced to resign -Allied failed effort to free Italy

-Britain and United States fighting Germany in "Operation Torch" -Led by American General Dwight D. Eisenhower -Ended with the surrender of Afrika Corps.

-German U-Boat attack on Allied supply ships -Allies use sonar to locate and destroy German U-Boats -Allies use convoy system for protection

-Allied attack on German-occupied France (Normandy) in order to liberate Paris and then France -Largest land-sea-air operation in army history -Air and sea bombardment by the Allies on the Germans