World War II Battles

Name these World War II battles based on the hints provided.

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Hint	Answer
Operation Overlord	D-Day
Operation Jubilee	Dieppe Raid
Operation Iceberg	Battle of Okinawa
Operation Watchtower	Battle of Guadalcanal
Operation Stalemate II	Battle of Peleliu
Operation Fredericus	Second Battle of Kharkov
This battle is often called one of the largest, longest and bloodiest engagement in modern warfare	Battle of Stalingrad
This battle in the Pacific Theater is considered a victory for Japan in terms of ships sunk but a victory for America in strategic terms	Battle of Coral Sea
This battle in the Pacific Theater occurred six months after Pearl Harbor	Battle of Midway
This battle is also called the Air Battle for England	Battle of Britain
This battle occurred around the same time as Churchill's finest hour and we shall fight on the beaches speech	Battle of France
This battle inspired a movie starring Harry Styles	Battle of Dunkirk
This battle consisted of four assaults against the Winter Line during the Italian Campaign	Battle of Monte Cassino
This battle was an Allied invasion of French North Africa	Operation Torch
This battle lead to the famous raising the flag photo	Battle of Iwo Jima
This operation occurred in the Netherlands and is considered a military failure for the Allied Forces	Operation Market Garden

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This battle lead to a famous propaganda photograph taken by Yevgeny Khaldei	Battle of Berlin
This battle is largely considered to be one of the most significant battles between the USSR and the Axis powers	Battle of Moscow
This battle was the last time Germany used blitzkrieg in an offensive battle	Battle of Kursk
This battle lead to the creation of the Sai Wan War Cemetery	Battle of Hong Kong
This battle put a stop to the Imperial Japanese Navy's ability to carry out large-scale carrier actions	Battle of the Philippine Sea
This battle was intended to open up the way to capture Rome, however, it resulted in a deadlock between Allied and Axis forces	Battle of Anzio
This was the largest Naval battle in WW2	Battle of Leyte Gulf
This is the first mainly airborne invasion in history	Battle of Crete
This battle removed German forces from the Lublin–Brest and Lvov–Sandomierz areas	Operation Bagration
This battle is also called the Ardennes Offensive	Battle of the Bulge
The allied invasion of Provence is called...	Operation Dragoon
After being defeated by Axis forces in Gazala the British forces retreated to Egypt and assumed a defensive position here, this lead to this battle	First Battle of El Alamein
This battle served to open up the shipping route to Antwerp	Battle of the Scheldt
Considered to be the shortest battle in WW2	Six Hour War
First large British military operation of the Western Desert Campaign	Operation Compass

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