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Nazi invation of Poland
The invasion began September 1, 1939. It began one week after the signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact and it ended five days later on September 6th. The invasion tookplace the morning after the Glewitz incident, German forces entered Poland from the north, south and west. The more the advanced the Polish forces withdrew from their forward bases of operation close to the Polish-German border to more established lines of defence to the east. -
Russia invades Poland
The 1939 Soviet invasion of Poland took place only sixteen days after the German forces invaded. The Soviet Union entered into negotiations with the United Kingdom, France, Poland, and Romania to establish an alliance against Nazi Germany. The negotiations failed when the Soviet Union insisted that Poland and Romania give Soviet troops transit rights through their territory as part of a collective security agree. The invasion ceased October 6,1939. -
Finland surrenders to the USSR
There was a military conflict between Russia and Finland called the Winter War. It began with the Soviet offensive on November 30, 1939 and ended on March 13, 1940 with the signing of the Moscow Peace Treaty.Finland ceded eleven percent of its pre-war territory and thirty percent of its economic assets to the Soviet Union.Soviet losses on the front were heavy, and the country's international reputation suffered. -
Germany invades Belgium, Holland and Luxembourg.
On May 10, 1940 German forces invaded Belgium, Luxembourg & Holland(The Netherlands). This was called the Battle of France, in which Germany invaded France and the Low Countries, it ended the Phoney War. The invasion consisted two main operations: Fall Gelb (Case Yellow) and Fall Rot (Case Red). The ending of this invasion was June 25 of the same year. -
Massive German air raid on London
On Sunday December 29,1940 Saint Paul's Cathedral stands gloriously in the distance as London is fire-bombed by Germans. The air raid called the "London Blitz" killed thousands of civilians. -
Japan attacks the American naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
The attack on Pearl Harbor, also called Hawaii Operation was conducted by the Japanese Imperial General Head Quarters, also called Operation Z , along with the Battle of Pearl Harbor was a surprise military striked lead by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base. The attack was intended as a pretentive action in order to keep the U.S. Pacific Fleet from messing with military actions of the Empire of Japan. The bas was attacked by 353 fighters, bombers andtorpedo planes. -
Mass murder of Jewish people
The mass murder of Jews in gas chambers at Auschwitz. In July, Nazis begin deporting Jews from the Warsaw ghetto to concentration camps. By the time September came only 60,000 Jews remained in the ghetto. -
Allied troops land in Normandy to begin the invasion in northern France.
The Invasion of Normandy was the invasion and establishment of Allied forces in Normandy, France, during Operation Overlord in World War II. The Allies assigned codenames to the various operations involved in the invasion. Allied forces rehearsed their roles for D-Day months before the invasion. This day is celebrated every year and known as D-Day. -
Hitler commits suicide
Adolf Hitler commited suicide by shooting himself April 30, 1945. His wife Eva also commited suicide by ingesting poison. -
Nagasaki is destroyed by an atomic bomb
After Japanese leaders flatly rejected the Potsdam Declaration, President Truman authorized use of the bomb anytime after August 3, 1945. The bomb called "Little Boy," was dropped on the city of Hiroshima. It killed 70,000 people by the flash of heat and covered over 60 percent of the city. The bomb was dropped at 8:15 A.M on August 6,1945.
