Military history of the United Kingdom during World War II | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-05-15

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00:00:32 1 Pre-war military
00:01:12 2 Beginning of the conflict
00:03:26 3 Western and northern Europe, 1940 and 1941
00:03:38 3.1 Norwegian campaign
00:05:53 3.2 The Battle of France
00:10:32 4 The war at sea
00:11:20 4.1 Opening moves
00:12:05 4.2 Battle of the Atlantic
00:12:39 4.2.1 First 'Happy Time'
00:14:24 4.2.2 Second 'Happy Time'
00:15:08 4.2.3 Success against the U-boats
00:16:55 4.2.4 Arctic convoys
00:17:37 4.3 The Mediterranean
00:19:27 4.3.1 Battle of Taranto
00:20:13 4.3.2 Battle of Matapan
00:21:05 4.3.3 Yugoslavia, Greece, and Crete
00:23:15 4.3.4 Malta
00:24:34 4.3.5 Large-scale invasions
00:25:55 4.3.6 Aegean sweep
00:26:41 4.4 Operation Overlord and the Normandy landings
00:29:05 4.5 The East
00:29:13 4.5.1 Indian Ocean disaster
00:31:50 4.5.2 Indian Ocean retreat
00:32:48 4.5.3 Indian Ocean strike
00:34:14 4.5.4 Blockade of Japan
00:35:05 5 The North African desert, Middle East, and Africa
00:36:15 5.1 The Offensive
00:37:20 5.2 Iraq, Syria and Persia
00:40:19 5.3 Ethiopia
00:44:24 5.4 War in the Western Desert
00:47:34 5.5 Operation Torch and El Alamein
00:51:20 5.6 Battle for Tunisia
00:52:53 6 The Italian campaign
00:53:30 6.1 Invasion of Sicily
00:54:42 6.2 Surrender of Italy
00:58:05 6.3 The Winter Line, Anzio and the Battle of Monte Cassino
01:00:12 6.4 Breakthrough to Rome
01:03:13 6.5 The Gothic Line and victory in Italy
01:06:41 7 The liberation of Europe
01:06:51 7.1 Operation Overlord
01:09:53 7.1.1 Controversies
01:13:45 7.2 Breakout from Normandy
01:15:50 7.3 Riviera invasion
01:16:36 7.4 Operation Market Garden
01:18:57 7.5 Walcheren
01:19:57 7.6 Battle of the Bulge
01:22:07 7.7 Crossing the Rhine and final surrender
01:24:45 8 The Far East
01:25:25 8.1 Disaster in Malaya and Singapore
01:28:44 8.2 Burma Campaign
01:29:29 8.2.1 Forced out of Burma
01:33:45 8.2.2 Forgotten army
01:36:29 8.2.3 Kohima and Imphal
01:38:34 8.2.4 Burma retaken
01:40:38 8.2.5 Malaya
01:41:30 8.3 Okinawa and Japan
01:42:38 9 The air war
01:42:47 9.1 Battle of Britain: 1940
01:44:22 9.2 Strategic bombing theory
01:46:05 9.3 Combined bomber offensive
01:53:24 9.4 Airfields



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The United Kingdom, along with most of its Dominions and Crown colonies declared war on Nazi Germany in September 1939, after the German invasion of Poland. War with Japan began in December 1941, after it attacked British colonies in Asia. The Axis powers were defeated by the Allies in 1945.For the domestic history see home fronts during World War II and Timeline of the United Kingdom home front during World War II.