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The war is in favour of Hiter's third Reich.
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Invasion of Poland
German forces invaded Poland from the north, south, and west the morning after the Gleiwitz incident. Slovak military forces advanced alongside the Germans in northern Slovakia. As the Wehrmacht advanced, Polish forces withdrew from their forward bases of operation close to the Germany–Poland border to more established defense lines to the east. After the mid-September Polish defeat in the Battle of the Bzura, the Germans gained an undisputed advantage. -
Battle of Britain
Set of aerial battles fought in the British sky and over the English Channel. when Germany sought to destroy the Royal British Air Force to obtain the air superiority necessary for an invasion of Great Britain. -
Occupation of Paris
Paris began to mobilize for war in September 1939, when Nazi Germany attacked Poland, but the war seemed distant until May 10, 1940, when the Germans attacked France and quickly defeated the French army. -
Operation Barbarossa (First attack launched against Stalin)
Operation Barbarossa was the invasion plan of the Soviet Union by the Axis Forces during World War II.
It was a severe blow to the unsuspecting Soviet forces, which suffered heavy casualties and lost large tracts of territory in a short time. However, the arrival of the Russian winter ended the German plans. During the winter, the Rojonota 1 Army counterattacked and nullified Hitler's hopes of winning the Battle of Moscow. The operation ended with the withdrawal of the German army. -
Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military offensive carried out by the Japanese Imperial Navy against the United States Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The attack was intended to be a preventive action aimed at avoid the intervention of the United States Pacific Fleet in the military actions that the Empire of Japan was planning to carry out in Southeast Asia against the overseas possessions of the United Kingdom, France, the Netherlands and the United States. -
El Alamein
The battle of El Alamein was the turning point of the war in North Africa, during World War II. General Bernard Montgomery had taken command of the British Eighth Army. The Allied victory ended the German desire to seize Egypt, then the British protectorate, and to take control of the Suez Canal, as well as the oil wells in the Middle East. -
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The Axis suffers a definite territorial recession.
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Normandy landings
The Normandy landings were the landing operations of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. Codenamed Operation Neptune and often referred to as D-Day, it was the largest seaborne invasion in history. The operation began the liberation of German-occupied France (and later western Europe) and laid the foundations of the Allied victory on the Western Front. -
Iwo Jima
The Battle of Iwo Jima is a very bloody fighting of WWII, fought on the island of Iwo Jima between US and Japan. At the end, the Americans managed to conquer the island and control its important airfields. However, they encountered extreme resistance from the Japanese, resistance that led to the death of most of their fighters. At the top of Mount Suribachi on the island journalist Joe Rosenthal took one of the most widespread images of World War II, awarded with the Pulitzer Prize (pic below) -
Death of Mussolini (end of fascism in Italy)
In a vain attempt to flee Italy Mussolini was captured by the Italian Resistance along with his lover Clara Petacci and other fascist hierarchs who accompanied them. Once executed, their bodies were hung on the roof of a gas station in Plaza de Loreto, where they were subjected to all kinds of special outrages. -
Invasion of Berlin/Hitler's suicide
The Allies were advancing both east and west. By the end of April, Soviet forces had entered Berlin and were fighting a fight towards the city center In April, Hitler suffered what some historians describe as a nervous breakdown to examine the military situation, publicly admitting that defeat was imminent and that Germany would lose the war. Finally, Hitler committed suicide by shooting himself in the head with his wife, Eva Braun, who resorted to cyanide poisoning. -
Okinawa battle
The battle of Okinawa was fought on the island of Okinawa in the Ryukyu Islands fought for 82 days.
The battle has been called Typhoon of Steel, Rain of Steel or Violent Wind of Steel. These names refer to the ferocity and brutality of the fighting, the intensity shooting, and the enormous number of allied ships and armored vehicles that assaulted the island. The battle turned out to be one of the most victims, civilians and military, throughout the Second World War -
Bombs are dropped in Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki with the consent of the United Kingdom, as required by the Quebec Agreement. The two bombings killed between 129,000 and 226,000 people, most of whom were civilians, and remain the first and only use of nuclear weapons in armed conflict. The destruction of the bombs caused put an end to any resistance. Japan surrended unconditionally. The most terrible war in history was over.
