Operation Barbarossa
The code name for Germany's invasion of Soviet Union was known as Operation Barbarossa. This started on June 22, 1941. The Axis Powers sent in over 9.3 million troops, Barbarossa also sent it 600,000 vehicles, and 750,000 horses. This caused the operation to be the largest invasion in history. This operation opened up to the Eastern Front and was the turning point in the Third Reich's fortunes. The soviets were unprepared for this attack from across the border.
Within a week, Germans have destoryed many of the Soviets things and killed and/or wounded many people. The Germans wanted more land so they thought, what better way to get more land than to attack somebody else and take land.
The German plan was to first of all take over the three major cities; Stalingrad, Leningrad, and Mascow. Mascow was close to being captured but manged to get out of it.
This operation failed due to the bad winter conditions. Many items were lost and supplies were growing scarce which caused them to fail. This is knows as one of Hitlers biggest mistakes and is the largest military operation in history.
I think this was a really dumb thing for Hitler to attepmt. He obvsiouly knew winter was approacing, he should have figured he would have failed at this operation.
Battle in Africa and Italy
This took place in North Africa from June 10,1940- May of 1943. These campaigns fought betwen the Allies and Axis Powers. The US entered the war in 1941 and started direct military assistance in North Africa on May 11, 1942. North Africa consists of Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Sudan, Tunisia, and the Western Sahara.
You could also refer to this as the North African Campaign. This was fought for two reasons, two control the middle east and middle easter oil resources. Mussolini declared war on Allies, he had more than a million men in the army based in Libya.
At the start of this campaign, they were plunged with lack of supplies. Most of the battles took place in far east of the Italian bases. In 1942, the Royal Navy beat the Italian out of the Mediterranean and allowed free movements.
The East African Campaign began on August 4 when Italian forces stationed in East Africa attacked the British, taking the capital on August 19.
I think that when we look back on all of these battlesthat we all fought just in this small period of time, we should be happy we dont have to experience all of that. Yes, we are going through a war, but atleast it is not as bad as these were, and didnt involve almost every country they could.
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Good! Maybe a tad brief overall.