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Q & A Battles
• The Battle of the Atlantic was the longest
continuous military campaign in World War II
• The outcome of the battle was a strategic
victory for the Allies
• The name “Battle of the Atlantic” was coined
by Winston Churchill in February 1941
• It has been called the “longest, largest and
most complex” naval battle in history
• The Battle of Stalingrad (23 August 1942 – 2
February 1943) was a major confrontation of
World War II in which Nazi Germany fought
against the Soviet Union
• The Battle of Stalingrad is often regarded as
one of the single largest and bloodiest battles
in the history of warfare
• The Battle of the Bulge (16 December 1944 –
25 January 1945) was the last major German
offensive campaign on the Western Front
during World War II
• American forces incurred their highest
casualties of any operation during the World
War II
• Germany defeated and annexed Paris on June 14,
1940
• The US didn’t join the war until 1941, when Japan
attacked the United States at their naval Base at
Pearl Harbor in Hawaii
• On 8 December 1941 (the very next day), the US
declared War on Japan
Date
The most unlucky day
Name of
Wa r P l a n e
Nuclear
Bomb
• Spain, Sweden and switzerland remained neutral
during World War II
• In1941, Germany defeated Bulgaria, Yugoslavia and
Greece
• ‘Kamikaze’ was a warfare tactic introduced by Japan
during the WW2
Nuclear Bomb
dropped on
1945 August 6 Enola Gay Little Boy Hiroshima
1945 August 9 Bockscar Fatman Nagasaki
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Q & A Day-Day
• June 6, 1944 was celebrated as D-Day
(Deliverance Day)
• D-Day was the day by the Western Allied efforts
to liberate mainland Europe from Nazi Germany
• V-E Day was celebrated on May 8, 1945
• V-E Day was the abbreviation of Victory in
Europe
• V-EDay was formal acceptance by the Allies of
World War II of Nazi Germany’s unconditional
surrender of its armed forces
• V-EDay marked the end of World War II in Europe
• Around 64 million people were killed in World War II
• Russia recaptured most of its territories from
Germany in 1943
• Mussolini was captured by Italian communists and
executed by firing squad on 28 April 1945
Nuremberg Trial
• After the war, some of those responsible for
crimes committed during the Holocaust were
brought to trial. Nuremberg, Germany, was
chosen as a site for trials that took place in
1945 and 1946 and the Judges were from
the Allied powers. It is generally known as
Nuremberg Trial
• Hitler committed suicide on April 30, 1945
• Germany surrendered on May 7, 1945
• The United States dropped nuclear
weapons on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima
and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945,
respectively
• Japan unconditionally surrendered on
1945 September 2
• Lord Wavell was the British Commander who
participated in two World Wars
• People who suffered the effects of both bombings
are known as niju hibakusha in Japan
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February 2018