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nazi invasion of poland
On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. The Polish army was defeated within weeks of the invasion. From East Prussia and Germany in the north and Silesia and Slovakia in the south, German units, with more than 2,000 tanks and over 1,000 planes, broke through Polish defenses along the border and advanced on Warsaw in a massive encirclement attack. After heavy shelling and bombing, Warsaw surrendered to the Germans on September 27, 1939. -
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Soviets attack Finland
November 30, 1939-March 1, 1940)--Following the German invasion of Poland in September of 1939, the Soviet Union also invaded Poland from the east, seizing Polish territory, and, in effect, establishing a buffer zone between Soviet territory and Germany -
Germans bomb Scapa Flow naval base near Scotland
German Ju88 bombers strike the British naval base at Scapa Flow. ... Scotland, when she was struck by a 500 kg bomb in a German air raid. ..... U.19 laid mines off Inner Dowsing near Yarmouth during the night of the -
Rommel attacks Tobruk
Both sides set to re-building and re-inforcing: Rommel for a further attack on Tobruk in order to free his threatened lines of communication -
SS Leader Heydrich attacked in Prague
In an operation named Operation Anthropoid, he was attacked in Prague on 27 May 1942 by ..... and Higher SS and Police Leader for Bohemia and Moravia ..... The Killing of Reinhard Heydrich: The SS "Butcher of Prague -
Battle of Stalingrad begins
The Battle of Stalingrad was a major battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city -
Italy declares war on Germany; Second American air raid on Schweinfurt
October 13, 1943 - Italy declares war on Germany; Second American air raid on Schweinfurt. November 6, 1943 - Russians recapture Kiev in the Ukraine. -
Allies attack the Gustav Line south of Rome.
On this day in 1944, Allied forces begin a major assault on the Gustav Line, a German defensive line drawn across central Italy just south of Rome. ... May 11, 1944: Allies attack the Gustav line in drive for Rome -
Civil War in Greece; Athens placed under martial law.
It was demonstrations and general strikes in Athens and Salonika that prevented .... All guerrilla forces operating in Greece place themselves under the orders .... Martial law was declared. General Katsotas, acting Military Governor -
the first atomic bomb dropped on japan
During the final stages of World War II in 1945, the United States conducted two atomic bombings against the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan, the first on August 6, 1945 and the second on August 9, 1945. These two events are the only active deployments of nuclear weapons in war to date
