YamiB. said:What do you think were the five most important battles of WWII?
I'd say ...
5) Normandy
-Stopped the USSR from expanding into the rest of Europe.
4) Kursk
-Nail in the coffin for the massively important eastern front.
3) Midway
-Turning point for the Pacific.
2) Britian
-Used up German rescources that could have helped the eastern front.
1) Stalingrad
-Turning point for the eastern front.
not to disagree much, but i would think that midway would have been the first.Inuyasha said:I say that in the Pacific the battle for Guadalcanal was the first moral boster for the US. That gace quite a push to the American resolve.
t125eagle said:not to disagree much, but i would think that midway would have been the first.
Vilandil Tasardur said:Well, I'll be honest with you, I don't really know enough about all the european battles to judge. However, the battles in the pacific were all of equal importance. Starting with I believe Hirojima and moving on to Okinawa and all of the other islands is how the United States reached Japan. An assult on Japan during that time was just not possible, Japan was to far away. There were however, a number of islands in the Pacific that made almost a connect the dots to Japan. Thus, all of these battles in the pacific were cruical. Had the United States lost any one of these, the road to the Japanese mainland would have been extremley difficult. Each island that was captured brought the Americans one step closer to mainland Japan. A single loss, at any of the several battles, could have proved dissasterous. But once again, that is just the pacific, as I said before, my knowledge of the European battles is not quite as extensive. Although I do believe that the battle of Britain is one of the most important. It kept Germans out of Britain. Had the British not won this fight, with France having already surrendered, there would have been no more democracies existing in Europe. And although the United States had not yet entered the war, they would have, and without British help Hitler would have slaughtered the Americans.
BodiSatva said:5. German occupation of the Channel Islands July 1st, 1940
4. Nomonhan: Japanese Soviet Tactical Combat, 1939
3. The Battle of Kelja December 25 - 27, 1939
2. Attack on Dutch Harbor, Alaska June 3, 1942
1. Gallipoli April 25, 1915
Intense research and worldwide collaboration shows that beyond any doubt, these were the five most important battles of WWII. Shrouded with secrecy intended to deceive the casual researcher, these battles now unveiled, indicate that Allied victory was dependent on these five battles, without them, we would now all be speaking whatever language those crazy Ottomans spoke.
t125eagle said:not to disagree much, but i would think that midway would have been the first.
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