KNOWN BATTLES
PEARL HARBOR:
Pearl Harbor was the first World War 2 battle where the United States were involved. This attack took place on December 7, 1941 on the Pearl Harbor naval base on the island of Oahu in Hawaii. This attack began like this. A Japanese naval commander named Vice-Admiral Nagumo and his forces secretly moved near the naval base and were not noticed by American forces. However, U.S military officials knew that they might be attacked by the Japanese and told other U.S commanders about it, but they thought that Pearl Harbor would not be a target so there weren’t too much security in that area. So on December 7, on 7 during the morning, Japanese fighter planes began to head up the U.S naval base. The U.S commanders tried to advise American sailors about that but they were too late. Japan had about 351 planes and 5 midget submarines in the attack. Many U.S Naval ships were sunk and damaged. A day after the attack, President Roosevelt made a speech based on the incident and told Congress to declare war on Japan, and later, against Germany and Italy.
THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN:
This is how the Battle of Britain began. Adolf Hitler began to gain more power in Europe and had taken over many countries, including France. After that, Great Britain barely had any allies in Europe, so Nazi Germany thought it was a great chance to attack England. So in 1940, German fighter planes began to attack the Royal Air Force. A pilot officer named John Beard described the battle. He said that he saw German planes flying near where he is and he was advised by his radio. His leader told him the orders of what to do and he had to get to a plane. He told that his mission was very difficult and challenging. But luckily, he successfully defeated the German fighter planes.
THE BATTLE OF STALINGRAD:
This is how the Battle of Stalingrad looked like. It happened during 1942. In that time, Nazi Germany wanted to take over the city of Stalingrad, which is part of the Soviet Union. So Hitler ordered his soldiers to attack this Russian city. The Russians were worried about what the Germans were doing because if Germany captured Stalingrad, The Soviet Union would not be strong enough to defeat Germany. The Russians tried to send soldiers there but its leader, Joseph Stalin, wanted to keep his soldiers in Moscow, Russia, so Germany had taken other Soviet cities such as Rostov. On July, Germany and other countries, including Italy and Hungary, began attacking Stalingrad. The Axis were almost winning that battle, but Stalin later thought that it was actually important to defend Stalingrad, so he sent troops there. Later, the Russians won the battle and many Germans were killed, or taken as prisoners.