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The Second World War started
The principals belligerents were the Axis powers and the Allies. -
France and Britain declare war on Germany
On this day in 1939, in response to Hitler’s invasion of Poland, Britain and France, both allies of the overrun nation declare war on Germany. -
Germans enter Paris
On the day 14,Parisians awaken to the sound of a German-accented voice announcing via loudspeakers that a curfew was being imposed for 8p.m. that evening-as German troops and occupy Paris. -
Germans launch V-1 rocket attack against Brinatin.
Germany launches 10 of its new V-1 rockets against Britain from a position near then Channel coast.
They prove to be than the devastating. -
Finally of the second world war.
Aboard the USS Missuori in Tokyo Bay, Japan formally surrenders of the Allies , bringing an end to World War II with the Atomic Boom. -
Soviets explode atomic bomb.
At a remote test site at Semipalatinsk in Kazakhstan, the USSR successfully detonates its first atomic bomb.
The code name "First Lightning".
The information of the atomic program was given for Fuchs,a member of the U.S.,to the Soviets.
This information was collet in the Second World War -
Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II
She is formally crowned monarch of the U.K. in a lavish ceremony steeped in traditions that date back a millennium.
During the Battle of Britain, Princess Elizabeth and her only sibling, Princess Margaret, lived away from London in the safety of the countryside, but their parents endeared themselves to their subjects by remaining in bomb-damaged Buckingham Palace throughout the German air offensive.
