Important battles in WWII

5. The last great carrier battle of WWII
7. a defeat from which the Imperial Japanese Navy never fully recovered from.
11. a battle that was from September 1939—May 1943
13. The largest of the Philippine islands, fell to Japan in 1942.
19. both sides struggling to find the enemy and unclear about what ships they had seen and engaged.
20. January—May 1944

1. The largest naval battle in history
2. this US naval base was surprise attacked by the Japanese that aided the US to join the war
3. One of the most audacious operations in the German conquest of Europe
4. fought from street to street, house to house, and room to room as the Red Army resisted German attempts to take the city.
6. the greatest tank battle of war II
7. The War where the popular photo of US soldiers planting the American flag into the ground
8. Britain faced the threat of a German invasion, but the incursion would succeed only with air superiority.
9. December 1944—January 1945
10. The Battle of that saw Germany and the Leningrad Front vying to control Narva Isthmus.
12. The largest amphibious operation in history involved more than 5,000 ships landing on the Normandy coastline
14. Lacking heavy artillery, the Germans attacked French positions with massed Stuka dive bombers
15. the Allies staged a massive amphibious operation to force the defenders to split their forces
16. three-quarters of a million German troops, under the personal command of Hitler, fought a desperate final defense against the encroaching Red Army.
17. Hitler believed the Blitzkrieg was unstoppable, and western Ukraine would prove him right
18. a million German troops were thrown into an attack as Hitler ordered that the city should be razed to the ground rather than captured.