World War II

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This paper explains that had England fallen in the Battle of Britain, the Nazis, at the very least, would have conquered the entire continent of Europe. The author explains destroying Japan's four aircraft carriers in the U.S. victory at Midway was the first necessary step that made possible the "island-hopping" campaign, which ultimately resulted in the recapture of the Philippines and the Solomon Islands from the Japanese. The paper concludes that the D-Day invasion at Normandy was the pivotal battle that enabled the Allied victory in the largest and most deadly war in human history, accounting for perhaps fifty-million deaths on three continents; consequently, it was probably the single most important battle of all time.

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Battle of Britain
Battle of Midway Island
Battle for Stalingrad
Invasion of Normandy

From the Paper:

"Slightly more a year later, the Russian Red Army had liberated all of the Russian territory previously captured by the Germans and pushed the Nazis all the way back to the streets of Berlin, where they retaliated for some of the Nazi atrocities committed against Russian civilians. Consequently, in the final weeks of the war in Europe, German soldiers scrambled desperately to surrender to American forces rather than suffer the fate of capture by the sons of the civilians they brutalized and murdered during their occupation of Russia. The entire Russian advance that ended with the complete, street-by-street destruction of the German capitol city of Berlin began with the defeat of the German war machine just outside Stalingrad in 1942."

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