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English: Map of the Italian invasion of Egypt 1940. Translated from File:Invasione Italiana dell'Egitto 1940.svg Deutsch: Karte der italienischen Invasion in Ägypten 1940.
The Italian invasion of Egypt (Operazione E) was an offensive in the Second World War from Italian Libya, against British, Commonwealth and Free French in the neutral Kingdom of Egypt. The invasion by the Italian 10th Army ( 10ª Armata ) ended border skirmishing on the frontier and began the Western Desert Campaign (1940–1943) proper.
MacGregor, Andrew (2006). "Europe's Battleground: Egypt in the Second World War". A military history of modern Egypt: from the Ottoman Conquest to the Ramadan War. Praeger Security International General Interest. ISBN 9780275986018. Morewood, Steven (2005). The British Defence of Egypt 1935–1940: Conflict and crisis in the Eastern ...
Unnamed Italian plan, proposed by Italo Balbo in April 1940, of a 2nd Italian invasion of Egypt from Italian East Africa (never carried out due to Ethiopian resistance). [ 33 ] Italian bombing of Bahrain (Italian attack on British Empire 's routes on Bahrain , carried out 19 October 1940) [ 34 ] [ 35 ]
The Western Desert campaign (Desert War) took place in the deserts of Egypt and Libya and was the main theatre in the North African campaign of the Second World War.Military operations began in June 1940 with the Italian declaration of war and the Italian invasion of Egypt from Libya in September.
The German Blitzkrieg offensive of mid-May, 1940. Map of the British invasion of Iceland in mid-May 1940. 1 May: Allies begin evacuating Norwegian ports; the efforts will continue until June. 5 May: Norwegian government in exile established in London. [2] 7 May: The Norway Debate begins in the House of Commons.
An invasion is a military offensive in which sizable number of combatants of one geopolitical entity aggressively enter territory controlled by another such entity, generally with the objectives of establishing or re-establishing control, retaliation for real or perceived actions, liberation of previously lost territory, forcing the partition of a country, gaining concessions or access to ...
German-occupied Europe (or Nazi-occupied Europe) refers to the sovereign countries of Europe which were wholly or partly militarily occupied and civil-occupied, including puppet governments, by the military forces and the government of Nazi Germany at various times between 1939 and 1945, during World War II, administered by the Nazi regime under the dictatorship of Adolf Hitler.