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Facts
| Date | July 1940 - September 1940 |
|---|---|
| Location | English Channel • France • United Kingdom |
| Participants | Germany • United Kingdom |
| Context | World War II |
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Timeline
Holocaust
1933 - 1945
Battle of the Atlantic
September 3, 1939 - May 8, 1945
Battle of France
May 10, 1940 - June 25, 1940
Dunkirk evacuation
May 26, 1940 - June 4, 1940
North Africa campaigns
June 1940 - May 13, 1943
Battle of Britain
July 1940 - September 1940
the Blitz
September 7, 1940 - May 11, 1941
Operation Barbarossa
June 22, 1941
Pearl Harbor attack
December 7, 1941
Battle of Wake Island
December 8, 1941 - December 23, 1941
Pacific War
December 8, 1941 - September 2, 1945
Bataan Death March
April 9, 1942
Doolittle Raid
April 18, 1942
Battle of Midway
June 3, 1942 - June 6, 1942
Kokoda Track Campaign
July 1942 - January 1943
Battle of Guadalcanal
August 1942 - February 1943
Battle of Stalingrad
August 22, 1942 - February 2, 1943
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
April 19, 1943 - May 16, 1943
Allied invasion of Sicily
July 9, 1943 - August 17, 1943
Italian Campaign
July 9, 1943 - May 2, 1945
Battle of Anzio
January 22, 1944 - June 5, 1944
Normandy Invasion
June 6, 1944 - July 9, 1944
Cowra breakout
August 5, 1944
Battle of Leyte Gulf
October 23, 1944 - October 26, 1944
Battle of the Bulge
December 16, 1944 - January 16, 1945
Battle of Iwo Jima
February 19, 1945 - March 26, 1945
Battle of Okinawa
April 1, 1945 - June 21, 1945
Battle for Castle Itter
May 5, 1945
atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
August 6, 1945 - August 9, 1945
Key People
Albert Kesselring
German field marshal
Hugh Caswall Tremenheere Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding
British air chief marshal
