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Britain and France declare war on Germany
The United Kingdom declared war on Germany on Sunday 3 September 1939, two days after Germany invaded Poland. France also declared war on Germany later the same day. Poles marching in Warsaw, after Britain declared war on Germany, during invasion of Poland. -
Hitler invades Poland
Nazi Germany possessed overwhelming military superiority over Poland. The assault on Poland demonstrated Germany’s ability to combine air power and armor in a new kind of mobile warfare. On September 17, 1939, the Soviet Union invaded eastern Poland, sealing Poland’s fate. The last operational Polish unit surrendered on October 6. -
Battle of Britain
The Battle took place between July and October 1940. This was when the Germans began to attacking coastal targets and British shipping operating in the English channel. -
Germany invades the Soviet Union
The Operation Barbarossa, during World War II, code name for the German invasion of the Soviet Union, which was launched on June 22, 1941. The failure of German troops to defeat Soviet forces in the campaign signaled a crucial turning point in the war. -
First Battle of El Alamein
The First Battle of El Alamein was fought July 1-27, 1942, during World War II (1939-1945). Having been badly defeated by Axis forces at Gazala in June 1942, the British Eighth Army retreated east into Egypt and assumed a defensive position near El Alamein -
Battle of Stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad, (July 17, 1942–February 2, 1943),
was a successful Soviet defense of the city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd), Russia, U.S.S.R., during World War II. Russians consider it to be one of the greatest battles of their Great Patriotic War, and most historians consider it to be the greatest battle of the entire conflict. It stopped the German advance into the Soviet Union and marked the turning of the tide of war in favor of the Allies. -
The Attack on Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor attack, (December 7, 1941), was a surprise aerial attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor on Oahu Island, Hawaii, by the Japanese that precipitated the entry of the United States into World War II. The strike climaxed a decade of worsening relations between the United States and Japan. -
Battle of Midway
The Battle of Midway, was on June 3–6, 1942, it was a World War II naval battle, fought almost entirely with aircraft, in which the United States destroyed Japan’s first-line carrier strength and most of its best trained naval pilots. Together with the Battle of Guadalcanal, the Battle of Midway ended the threat of further Japanese invasion in the Pacific -
Battle of Kursk
The Battle of Kursk, July 5–August 23, 1943,was an unsuccessful German assault on the Soviet salient around the city of Kursk, in western Russia, during World War II. The salient was a bulge in the Soviet lines that stretched 150 miles 240 km from north to south and protruded 100 miles 160 km westward into the German lines. -
Battle of Leyte Gulf
Battle of Leyte Gulf, (October 23–26, 1944),was a decisive air and sea battle of World War II that crippled the Japanese Combined Fleet, permitted U.S. invasion of the Philippines, and reinforced the Allies’ control of the Pacific.