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Nazi Invasion of Poland
Also known as September Campaign. Was an invasion of Poland by Germany, the Soviet Union, and a small Slovak contingent that marked the start of World War II in Europe. -
Germans enter paris
The Germans went into Paris, conquered Paris, and made the French troops retreat southward to avoid war. -
Germans attack on Tobruk is repulsed
Also known as The Siege of Tobruk. It's a confrontation between Axis and Allied forces in North Africa during the Western Desert Campaign of the Second World War. Went on for 240 days. -
Nazis liquidate Lidice in reprisal for Heydrich's assassination
All 192 men 16 or older from the village were murdered on the spot by the Germans. The rest of the population were sent to Nazi concentration camps where many women and nearly all the children were killed. -
Allies land in Sicily
Codenamed Operation Husky. The allies took Sicily from the Axis, it was a large scale amphibious and airborne operation, followed by six weeks of land combat. It launched the Italian Campaign. -
Battle of Normandy
It was the operation that launched the invasion of German-occupied western Europe during World War II by Allied forces. The operation started on 6 June 1944 with the Normandy landings (known as D-Day). -
U.S. troops liberate Cherbourg, France.
The involvement of many of the Allies in World War II was natural and inevitable they were invaded or under the direct threat of invasion by the Axis. -
Liberation of Paris
Also known as Battle of Paris.
The last battle in the Campaign for Normandy and the transitional conclusion of the Allied invasion breakout in Operation Overlord into a broad-fronted general offensive. -
Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin meet at Yalta.
Sometimes called Crimea Conference, codenamed Argonaut Conference.
It was the February 4–11, 1945 war meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and General Secretary Joseph Stalin, for the purpose of discussing Europe's post-war reorganization. -
The first atomic bomb dropped on Japan
Nicknamed Little Boy, was dropped on the city of Hiroshima. Marking over 60 percent of the city, 70,000 residents died in a searing flash of heat. Three days later, on August 9, a second bomb, Fat Man, was dropped on Nagasaki.
