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Principal Battles of World War II
Date   Name
Anzio (22 Jan 1944)    
Ardennes (16 Dec 1944)     Allied Victory
Arnhem (17 Sep 1944)    
Balkans (20 Aug 1944)     Russian victory over the Germans
Bastogne (17 Dec 1944)    
Berlin (16 Apr 1945)    
Britain (Battle of) (10 Jul 1940)    
Cassino (12 Feb 1944)    
Coral Sea (7 May 1942)    
Crete (20 May 1941)    
Crimea ( 1941)    
Denmark, Invasion of (9 Apr 1940)     German victory
Dieppe (19 Aug 1942)    
Dunkirk (26 May 1940)    
El Alamein I (1 Jul 1942)    
Finnish-Soviet War (30 Nov 1939)    
Flanders (10 May 1940)    
France (5 Jun 1940)    
Greece (28 Oct 1940)    
Guadalcanal (7 Aug 1942)     American victory over the Japanese
Guam (21 Jul 1944)     U.S. victory over Japan
Iwo Jima (16 Feb 1945)     American victory over the Japanese
Kasserine Pass (14 Feb 1943)    
Kiev (19 Sep 1941)    
Kursk (5 Jul 1943)    
Kwajalein (1 Feb 1944)     U.S. victory over Japan
Leningrad, Siege of (8 Sep 1941)    
Mareth (20 Mar 1943)    
Midway (4 Jun 1942)     U.S. victory over Japan
Minsk (27 Jun 1941)    
Moscow (2 Oct 1941)    
Netherlands (10 May 1940)    
Normandy (6 Jun 1944)    
NorthWest Africa (8 Nov 1942)    
Norway, Invasion of (9 Apr 1940)    
Okinawa (1 Apr 1945)    
Pearl Harbor (7 Dec 1941)    
Poland-East Prussia ( Jul 1944)    
Polish Campaign (1 Sep 1939)    
Saint-Vith (16 Dec 1944)    
Salerno (9 Sep 1943)    
Sevastopol (3 Jun 1942)     German victory
Sicily, Invasion of (9 Jul 1943)    
Sidi Barrani (8 Dec 1940)     British victory over Italians
Singapore (31 Jan 1942)    
Smolensk (16 Jul 1941)    
St Lo Breakout (25 Jul 1944)    
Stalingrad (23 Aug 1942)    
Tarawa (20 Nov 1943)    
Tunisia (3 May 1943)    
Ukraine (23 Jul 1943)    
Warsaw (1 Aug 1944)    
White Russia ( 1943)    
Yugoslavia (6 Apr 1941)    


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