1914 - the Battle of Mons, and the First Battle of Ypres. 1915 - The Second Battle of Ypres. 1916 - The Battle of the Somme 1917 - The Third Battle of Ypres, The Battle of Cambrai. 1918 - The German Spring Offensive, The Allied Counter-Offensive.
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There were two major theaters in the Second Great War: the European theater, and the Pacific Theater. V-E Day was the day that the Germans surrendered to the Allied Forces and major action in the European theater ceased. The Nazis were defeated.
There were a series of campaigns fought in all theaters. WW2 was broken down into three major theaters for the western allies: ETO, PTO, CBI (European Theater of Operations; Pacific Theater of Operations; and the China, Burma, India Theater of Operations).
During World War II, the early major military strategy in the Pacific theatre was to stop the Japanese from approaching the United States by taking control of the Midway Islands. The European theatre was focusing on Africa to prevent enemy forces from moving northward.
The Battle of Britain , the Battle of Midway , the Battle for Stalingrad and the D-Day invasion of the European Mainland .
The European-African-Middle Eastern Theater Campaign Medal for the U.S. Army has fifteen authorized battle stars. Three are for campaigns in Africa-Middle East: * Egypt-Libya * Algeria-French Morrocco * Tunisia Twelve are for campaigns on the European continent and they are: * Air Offensive Europe * Sicily * Naples-Foggia * Anzio * Rome-Arno * Normandy * Northern France * Southern France * Northern Apennines * Rhineland * Ardennes-Alsace * Central Europe