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Germany invaded Poland
After heavy shelling and bombing, Warsaw surrendered to the Germans on September 27, 1939. It happened, Nazi leader Adolf Hitler claimed the massive invasion was a defensive action, but Britain and France were not convinced. The after affects of this included concentration camps and torn up cities. -
invasion of France
Even though France and Great Britain declared war on Germany in 1939, there wasn't a lot of fighting at first.On April 9, 1940 Germany invaded Norway and Denmark. Soon after that, they invaded the Netherlands, Belgium, and France. Italy entered the war on 10 June 1940 and attempted an invasion of France. The German plan for the invasion of France consisted of two main operations. Germans invade France, and this is a victory that has a devastating impact on the war. -
London Bombed
Germany bombs London. On 7 September 1940, the Luftwaffe unleashed a merciless bombing campaign against London and Britain's major cities. Instead of breaking morale, however, the raids only galvanized the will of the British people for the rest of the war. -
Germany invades soviet union
The destruction of the Soviet Union by military force, the permanent elimination of the perceived Communist threat to Germany, and the seizure of prime land within Soviet borders for long-term German settlement had been core policy of the Nazi movement since the 1920s. Adolf Hitler had always regarded the German-Soviet nonaggression pact, signed on August 23, 1939, as a temporary tactical maneuver. Hitler decided to attack the Soviet Union within the following year. -
opperation barbarossa
Operation Barbarossa, original name Operation Fritz, during World War II, code name for the German invasion of the Soviet Union, which was launched on June 22, 1941. The failure of German troops to defeat Soviet forces in the campaign signaled a crucial turning point in the war.June 22nd marks the 70th anniversary of Operation Barbarossa, Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union the biggest military adventure in history, which led directly to the downfall of Adolf Hitler's murderous regime. -
British supplies
Lend-Lease and Military Aid to the Allies in the Early Years of World War II. During World War II, the United States began to provide significant military supplies and other stuff even though the United States did not enter the war until December 1941. Under the terms of the agreement, the United States gave the British -
Japan bombed pearl harbor
President Franklin Roosevelt called December 7, 1941, "a date which will live in infamy." On that day, Japanese planes attacked the United States Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory. The bombing killed more than 2,300 Americans. It completely destroyed the American battleship U.S.S. Arizona and capsized the U.S.S. Oklahoma. The attack sank or beached a total of twelve ships and damaged nine others. The attack took the country by surprise, especially the ill-prepared Pearl Harbor base. -
Germany declared war on U.S
Hitler declared war on the United States because he believed that it was an opportunity to be seized. Hitler had behaved with a certain circumspection towards the US in spite of US supplies flowing to Britain and the defending half of the Atlantic against German submarines. -
bataan death march
A death march is a forced march of prisoners of war or other captives or deportees with the intent to kill, brutalize, weaken and/or demoralize as many of the captives as possible along the way. [citation needed] It is distinguished in this way from simple prisoner transport via foot march. The day after Japan bombed the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, the Japanese invasion of the Philippines began. Within a month, the Japanese had captured Manila. -
Battle of Midway
The Battle of Midway, fought in World War II, took place on June 5, 1942 (June 4-June 7 in US time zones). The United States Navy defeated a Japanese attack against Midway Atoll, marking a turning point in the war in the Pacific theater. -
Warsaw ghetto uprising
The Warsaw Uprising (Polish: powstanie warszawskie) was a major World War II operation by the Polish resistance Home Army (Polish: Armia Krajowa) to liberate Warsaw from Nazi Germany. Mordecai Anielewicz went down in history as the courageous leader of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. But one of the unsung heroes who fought alongside Anielewicz was an activist by the name of Pawel Frenkel, who was 23 at the time of the revolt. -
battle of the bulge
The Battle of the Bulge in World War II happened because of Hitler's plan to launch a counter-offensive to thrust through the allied armies in the Ardennes region of northwest Europe and recapture Antwerp in Belgium. At the end of the of the 41-day offensive, 19,000 American soldiers were dead. The British Army lost 1,400 lives. Total allied casualties are estimated at 110,000 making it the bloodiest battle for American troops in all of World War II. German casualties were lower at about 85,000. -
liberation of concentration camps
Soviet soldiers were the first to liberate concentration camp prisoners in the final stages of the war. On July 23, 1944, they entered the Majdanek camp in Poland, and later overran several other killing centers. On January 27, 1945, they entered Auschwitz and there found hundreds of sick and exhausted prisoners. -
battle of iwo jima
Iwo Jima was strategically important: it provided an air base for Japanese fighter planes to intercept long-range B-29 Superfortress bombers, and it provided a haven for Japanese naval units in dire need of any support available.The battle for Iwo Jima,still looms gargantuan, unbelievable, devouring; not measurable by Guadalcanal, Peleliu or Belleau Wood, but by its own arena, complexity, ferocity and the character of its combatants. -
American troops landed in norway
The German occupation of Norway began on 9 April 1940 after German forces invaded the neutral Scandinavian country of Norway. Conventional armed resistance to the German invasion ended on 10 June 1940 and the Germans then controlled Norway until the capitulation of German forces in Europe on May 8/9, 1945. Civil rule was effectively assumed by the Reichskommissariat, which acted in collaboration with a pro-German puppet government. -
U.S bombs japan
On August 6, 1945, during World War II (1939-45), 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; tens of thousands more would later die of radiation exposure. Three days later, a second B-29 dropped another A-bomb on Nagasaki, killing an estimated 40,000 people.
