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Nazi Invasion of Poland
also known as the September Campaign or 1939 Defensive War in Poland and the Poland Campaign in Germany, 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 -
Lend- Lease Program
The U.S. begins its "Lend-Lease" program to supply Britain and other Allied nations with war materiel on credit. The act formally ends U.S. neutrality, and Hitler orders U-boat attacks on U.S. merchant ships. -
Non Agression Pact
The Soviet Union and Germany signed a non agression act, agreeing not to attack one another for 10 years. Hiler however saw the SU to be too weak to keep as an ally and attacked and invaded the Soviet Union in June of 1941 -
Attach on Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese Imperial General Headquarters and the Battle of Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on the morning of December 7, 1941. This event brought the United States into the War. -
Auschwitz opens
The mass murder of Jews in gas chambers at Auschwitz begins. In July, Nazis begin deportation of Jews from the Warsaw ghetto to concentration camps. By September, only 60,000 Jews remain in the ghetto. -
Germany's First Surrender
German forces surrender at Stalingrad — the first major defeat of a German army since the war began. 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 of Stalingrad. -
D- Day
The Normandy landings were the landing operations of the Allied invasion of Normandy, also known as Operation Overlord and Operation Neptune, during World War II.The assault was conducted in two phases: an airborne assault landing of 24,000 British, American, Canadian and Free French airborne troops shortly after midnight, and an amphibious landing of Allied infantry and armoured divisions on the coast of France commencing at 6:30 AM. -
Battle of the Bulge
US forces push the German army back into Germany, winning the Battle of the Bulge. Soviet troops capture Warsaw and liberate Auschwitz. A major German offensive (die Ardennenoffensive), launched toward the end of World War II through the densely forested Ardennes Mountains region of Wallonia in Belgium, -
Hitler's suicide
Allied forces advance through northern Italy, capturing Venice. Mussolini is captured by Italian troops fighting with the Allies and is hanged. Soviet troops capture Berlin.U.S. forces liberate concentration camps at Buchenwald and Dachau. Adolf Hitler commits suicide on April 30. -
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
