Decisive Battles of World War II

Name these decisive battles and campaigns of the Second World War based upon the clues given.

Excluding the Second-Sino Japanese War

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Hint	Answer
September 1939, causes outbreak of war	Invasion of Poland
May-June 1940, Germany swiftly conquers Western Europe	Case Yellow
July-October 1940, German invasion plans postponed indefinitely	Battle of Britain
June-December 1941, opening of the Eastern Front	Operation Barbarossa
September 1941-January 1944, longest and deadliest siege ever	Siege of Leningrad
October 1941-January 1942, Germany fails to defeat the Soviet Union in one offensive	Battle of Moscow
December 1941, opening of the Pacific Theater	Attack on Pearl Harbor
February 1942, Britain's Southeast Asian fortress city falls to Japan	Battle of Singapore
June 1942, turning point of the naval war in the Pacific	Battle of Midway
June-November 1942, renewed German offensive in Russia	Case Blue
August 1942-February 1943, turning point of the ground war in the Pacific	Guadalcanal Campaign
August 1942-February 1943, turning point on the Eastern Front, deadliest battle ever, and failure of German offensive	Battle of Stalingrad
October-November 1942, turning point in North Africa	Second Battle of El Alamein
July-August 1943, failed German offensive leads to largest tank battle ever	Battle of Kursk

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July-August 1943, opening of the Italian Campaign	Allied Invasion of Sicily
November 1943, first of the bloody "island-hopping" battles in the Central Pacific	Battle of Tarawa
June 1944, reopening of the Western Front in France	Operation Overlord
June-July1944, decisive battle in the Mariana Islands, largest banzai charge ever conducted, and mass suicide of ethnic Japanese	Battle of Saipan
June-August 1944, Soviet summer offensive in Belarus and Poland	Operation Bagration
August 1944, Germany loses nearly all of its oil supply, Soviets break into the Balkans	Second Jassy-Kishinev Offensive
October 1944, decisive battle of the Second Philippines Campaign, largest naval battle ever	Battle of Leyte Gulf
December 1944-January 1945, last ditch German offensive on the Western Front and deadliest battle between America and Germany	Battle of the Bulge
February-March 1945, Americans capture Japanese fortress island in bloody battle, mass bombing of Japan made possible	Battle of Iwo Jima
April-June 1945, final and deadliest island battle in the Pacific	Battle of Okinawa
April-May 1945, last major battle in Europe, Germany capitulates	Battle of Berlin
August 1945, catastrophic knockout blow in the Pacific, Japan capitulates	Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
August 1945, Japanese forces in China and Korea crushed, fighting rages after official Japanese surrender	Soviet Invasion of Manchuria