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headline word applied retrospectively to describe a military doctrine of an all-mechanized force concentrating its attack on a small section of the enemy fron
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on 31 August 1939, on September 1, German forces invaded Poland from the north, south, and west.
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Death camp were jews were sent (and many others) to be killed.
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the name given to the sustained strategic effort by the German Air Force (Luftwaffe) during the summer and autumn of 1940 to gain air superiority over the Royal Air Force (RAF), especially Fighter Command.
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was the code name for Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II that commenced on 22 June 1941.
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was an unsuccessful military operation by the Axis powers to capture Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg) during World War II. The siege lasted from 9 September 1941, to 18 January 1943, when a narrow land corridor to the city was established by the Soviets
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a surprise military strike conducted by the Japanese navy against the United States' naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
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Japan pushes US into WW2 on this date.
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was a major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II between the Imperial Japanese Navy and the Allied forces of the United States Navy and the Royal Australian Navy.
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Amajor naval battle, regarded as the most important of the Pacific Campaign of World War II
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was a battle of the Western Desert Campaign of the Second World War, fought between Axis forces commanded by Erwin Rommel, and Allied forces commanded by Claude Auchinleck
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was a battle between Nazi Germany and its allies and the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia.
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Decisive engagement in a series of naval battles between Allied (primarily United States) and Imperial Japanese forces during the months-long Guadalcanal campaign in the Solomon Islands.
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was a costly series of four battles during World War II, fought by the Allies with the intention of breaking through the Winter Line and seizing Rome.
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The first operations of the Allied invasion of Normandy.
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Operation Detachment, was a battle in which the United States fought for and captured the island of Iwo Jima from Japan.
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was fought on the Ryukyu Islands of Okinawa and was the largest amphibious assault in the Pacific Theater of World War II
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Bombing of japanese city by President henry S truman.
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nuclear attacks near the end of World War II against the Empire of Japan by the United States at the executive order of U.S. President Harry S. Truman on August 6 and 9, 1945
