Examples of Western Desert Campaign in the following topics:
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- It included campaigns fought in the Libyan and Egyptian deserts (Western Desert Campaign or Desert War), in Morocco and Algeria (Operation Torch), and Tunisia (Tunisia Campaign).
- The Western Desert Campaign, also known as the Desert War, was the initial stage of the North African Campaign.
- It took place in the Western Desert of Egypt and Libya beginning in September 1940 with the Italian invasion of Egypt.
- After the British defeats in the Balkan Campaign, the Western Desert Campaign had become more important to British strategy.
- Identify the effectiveness of the Western Desert Campaign, Operation Torch, and the Tunisia Campaign.
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- There are several types of deserts including high-pressure deserts, mid-continent deserts, rain-shadow deserts, and upwelling deserts.
- High-pressure deserts include the Sahara, Arabian, Thar, and Kalahari deserts, and the desert regions within the Arctic and Antarctic circles.
- Modern examples of mid-continent deserts are the Turkmenistan, Gobi, and Great Australian deserts.
- Examples of rain-shadow deserts include the Mojave desert in the rain-shadow of the Sierra Nevada, the Patagonian desert in the rain-shadow of the Andes, and the Iranian desert in the rain-shadow of the Zagros mountains.
- Examples include the Atacama desert, the Western Sahara, and the Namib desert.
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- Ancient rock and cave art can be found throughout the Sahara desert, providing a significant window into the art and culture of the prehistoric peoples of Africa.
- The region has a long history of climate change, and the desert area of today was once a savanna.
- Located in the mountainous Gilf Kebir plateau of the Libyan Desert, the cave and rock art was discovered in 1933 by the Hungarian explorer László Almásy.
- Tassili n'Ajjer is a mountain range in the Algerian section of the Sahara Desert.
- Painting of men in the Cave of the Swimmers, Wadi Sura, Gilf Kebir, Western Desert, Egypt
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- Union victory in battles in the Western Theater were strategically important in defeating the Confederacy.
- General Albert Sidney Johnston commanded many Confederate forces in the Western Theater.
- The theater's next phase was the Vicksburg Campaign .
- Grant's first campaign was a two-pronged movement.
- Map of the Savannah Campaign (Sherman's March to the Sea) of the American Civil War.
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- Western states and territories witnessed major military campaigns by
Confederate and Union forces.
- The western theater of the U.S.
- The western theater witnessed several important
campaigns.
- The Union began campaigns in the western theater by securing Kentucky in June 1861.
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Union's disastrous Red River Campaign in western Louisiana effectively ended
the Union's attempts to invade the region.
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- The Ovambo, and the smaller and closely related group Kavango, lived in northern Namibia, southern Angola and, in the case of the Kavango, western Zambia.
- Known as the Herero and Namaqua genocide, it was a campaign of racial extermination and collective punishment.
- However, as the inhospitable Namib Desert constituted a formidable barrier, neither of the Portuguese explorers went far inland.
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- The Western Front in Europe opened with a
German invasion and continued through four years of bloody combat in World War I.
- Many troops suffered shell shock while others deserted.
- The attack continued and in May, 20,000
French soldiers deserted as morale decreased.
- Trench warfare characterized the western front of World War I.
- Discuss the importance of the Battles of Verdun, Somme, and Passchendaele on the Western Front.
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- Grant's Overland Campaign was a series of battles fought in Virginia during May and June 1864.
- In March 1864, Grant was summoned from the western theater, promoted to lieutenant general, and given command of all Union armies.
- Major General William Tecumseh Sherman succeeded Grant in command of most of the western armies.
- The Overland Campaign was the thrust necessary for the Union to win the war, and although Grant suffered a number of tactical defeats (most notably Cold Harbor), the campaign was a strategic success for the Union.
- Describe Grant's Overland Campaign in pursuit of Lee and the resulting Union victory
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- The crossing of the Rhine, the encirclement and reduction of the Ruhr, and the sweep to the Elbe-Mulde line and the Alps all established the final campaign on the Western Front as a showcase for Allied superiority in maneuver warfare
- The Western Allied invasion of Germany was conducted by the Western Allies in the final months of fighting in the European theater of World War II.
- This is known as the "Central Europe Campaign" in U.S. military histories.
- With a large number of men captured, the stubborn German resistance during the Allied campaign to reach the Rhine in February and March 1945 had been costly.
- The crossing of the Rhine, the encirclement and reduction of the Ruhr, and the sweep to the Elbe-Mulde line and the Alps all established the final campaign on the Western Front as a showcase for Allied superiority in maneuver warfare.
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- The 1828 campaign differed significantly from earlier presidential contests because of the party organization that promoted Andrew Jackson.
- From Nashville, Tennessee, the Jackson campaign organized supporters around the nation through editorials in partisan newspapers and other publications.
- Though he did not wage an election campaign filled with public appearances, Jackson did give one major campaign speech in New Orleans on January 8, the anniversary of the defeat of the British in 1815.
- The campaign was marked by an impressive amount of mudslinging.
- Jackson was attacked for his marriage, his court martial and execution of deserters, his massacres of American Indian villages, and his habit of dueling.