MAJOR BATTLES OF WWII
Battle
Battle of
Midway
island
Campaign for
Guadalcanal
Battle of El
Alamein
Operation
overlord
(D-Day)
Battle of
the Bulge
When?
June 1942
August 1942
October 1942
June 6, 1944
December 16, 1944
Where?
Midway Island (Pacific
Islands)
Guadalcanal, Solomon
Islands (Pacific Islands)
Results Importance
The U.S. sank four
Japanese aircraft
carriers.
The U.S. defeated
the Japanese,
gaining control of
the island.
It limited Japan's ability to
attack Hawaii again or other
Allied positions.
Guadalcanal became a military
base from which to
counterattack the Japanese.
British and U.S.
forces drove the
U.S. Gen. Eisenhower led the
El Alamein, Egypt
German army, led
Allies in an invasion of Tunisia,
by General Rommel, from Algeria, forcing Rommel
from Egypt west
to surrender in May of 1943.
into Tunisia.
A fleet of 4,000
ships carried Allied
On August 25, 1944, Allied
Normandy, France
troops to Normandy forces liberated Paris from Nazi
in order to invade
rule.
France in an
attempt to defeat
the Germans.
The Germans began
Border areas near
a counterattack
This battle showed the
Luxembourg, France and against the Allies as
desperation of the German
Germany
the Allies attempted
forces. While the Germans
to drive the
were able to slow down the
Germans
Allied advance, they could not
completely out of
stop it completely.
France.