KEY TURNING POINTS

Key Battles (European Theatre)

• Germany Invasion of France and Low Countries (May - June, 1940)
• Barbarossa: German Invasion of Soviet Union (June 22, 1941 - December, 1941)
• Battles Around Moscow (December, 1941 to February, 1942)
• Stalingrad (August, 1942 - February, 1943)
• U-Boat War in the Atlantic (1939-1945)
• Kursk (July, 1943)
• The Bombing of Germany (1939-1945)
• Destruction of Army Group Center (June-July, 1944)
• D-Day ( Operation Overlord, June, 1944)
  
  
  
• The Battle of the Bulge ( Ardennes Offensive, December, 1944 - January, 1945) )
• Battle of Berlin (April, 1945)

Key Battles (Pacific Theatre)

• Pearl Harbor (December 7, 1941)
  
  
  
• Philippines Fall to Japan (January - May, 1942)
• Coral Sea (May, 1942)
  
• Midway (June, 1942)
  
  
  
• Iwo Jima (February, 1945)
  
  
  
• Okinawa (April-June, 1945)
  
  
  
• Submarine Warfare Against Japan (1941-1945)
• Atomic Bombs (August, 1945)