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| This campaign took place in May of 1940. A massive Allied evacuation of 340 000 soldiers took place in this port town in France when German forces conquered France. |
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| An air campaign launched by the Royal Air Force to stop the Germans from achieving air superiority |
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| Hitler’s plan to invade Britain. July, 1940 A massive bombing campaign aimed at destroying harbours and shipping facilities in southern England which included the bombing of London and other British cities. |
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| This campaign took place from 1940 to1942 and was also known as the Desert War, was a struggle for control of valuable resources and strategic positions. The Axis wanted to dominate the Mediterranean by controlling the Strait of Gibraltar and the Suez Canal |
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| Invasion of USSR - Operation Barbarossa |
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| Germany’s unsuccessful invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941-1942, which broke the non-aggression pact and ultimately led to the Soviet Union joining the Allies. |
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| A major battle on the eastern front which began in August of 1942 and lasted just over five months, in which Nazi Germany fought the Soviet Union for control of this city. This battle was regarded as the single largest and bloodiest in the history of warfare and was the most strategically decisive battle of the entire Second World War. |
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| Japanese bombed this US naval base in the Pacific which killed more than 2400 people and destroyed much of the American fleet, signaling the entry of the US into the war. |
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| Japan’s attack on this British colony in the Pacific in which there were heavy Canadian losses and nearly 1700 Canadians became POWs. |
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| A 1942 trial invasion by Canadian troops against Germany’s occupation of this French port town resulted in Canada suffering great losses. The Allies had lost the element of surprise and were forced to land their troops in daylight and were easily machine-gunned down by waiting German soldiers. In addition, poor communication between ships and troops on land also trapped the troops on land and the tanks were ineffective on the pebbled beaches. |
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| The struggle between the Allies and the Axis powers to control the Allis’ shipping route across this ocean. |
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| In 1943 the Allies battle through this country for almost two years entering through the “soft underbelly” in southern Europe with major battles on the island of Sicily which led to the downfall of Mussolini. Canadians were given the task of capturing the medieval town of Ortona on the Adriatic Sea which was completed on December 28, 1943. |
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| D-Day - Operation Overlord |
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| June 6, 1944, the Allied armies, including Canada, invaded France, the biggest Allied invasion of the Second World War. |
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| Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
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| The Canadian government supplied the uranium for the Manhattan Project to develop the atomic bomb used on these cities in Japan which killed approximately 100 000 people and ultimately led to the surrender of Japan and led to the end of the war. |
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