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Invasion of Poland
The invasion of Poland, marked the beginning of World War II. One week after the signing of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact between Germany and the Soviet Union, and one day after the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union had approved the pact. The Soviets invaded Poland. -
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Germany attacks France
The Battle of France, also known as the Fall of France, was the German invasion of France and the Low Countries during the Second World War. France began the limited Saar Offensive. -
Battle of Britain begins
The Germans begin the first in a long series of bombing raids against Great Britain, as the Battle of Britain, which will last three and a half months, begins. -
Hitler sends the Afrika Korps to North Africa
German General Erwin Rommel arrives in Tripoli, Libya, with the newly formed Afrika Korps, to reinforce the beleaguered Italians’ position. Adolf Hitler established the Afrika Korps for the explicit purpose of helping his Italian Axis partner maintain territorial gains in North Africa. -
Operation Barbarossa begins
Operation Barbarossa was the code name for the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union, during World War II. The operation put into action Nazi Germany's ideological goal of conquering the western Soviet Union so as to repopulate it with Germans. -
Attack on Pearl Harbor
El ataque a Pearl Harbor fue una ofensiva militar sorpresiva efectuada por la Armada Imperial Japonesa contra la base naval de los Estados Unidos en Pearl Harbor . El ataque pretendía ser una acción preventiva destinada a evitar la intervención de la Flota del Pacífico de los Estados Unidos en las acciones militares. -
US and British troops land on the beaches of Algeria and Morocco
Was an Allied invasion of French North Africa during the Second World War. The French colonies in the area were dominated by the Vichy French, formally aligned with Germany but of mixed loyalties. Reports indicated that they might support the Allies. -
Allied troops land on the beaches of Salerno
Operation Avalanche was the codename for the Allied landings near the port of Salerno. The Italians withdrew from the war the day before the invasion, but the Allies landed in an area defended by German troops. The landings were carried out by the US Fifth Army, under American General Mark W. -
D-Day
The Normandy landings were the landing operations and associated airborne 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.. -
Paris liberated by the allies
The Liberation of Paris was a military battle that took place during World War II until the German garrison surrendered the French capital. Paris had been ruled by Nazi Germany since the signing of the Second Compiègne Armistice, after which the Wehrmacht occupied northern and western France. -
Hitler commits suicide
Hitler holed up in a bunker under his headquarters in Berlin and commits suicide by swallowing a cyanide capsule and shooting himself in the head. Soon after, Germany unconditionally surrendered to the Allied forces -
Dropping of first atom bomb on Hiroshima
During the World War II , an American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion wiped out 90 percent of the city and immediately killed 80,000 people. -
Japan formally surrenders
The surrender of Imperial Japan was announced by Japanese Emperor Hirohito, bringing the hostilities of World War II to a close. By the end of the Imperial Japanese Navy was incapable of conducting major operations and an Allied invasion of Japan was imminent.
