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Germany's invasion of Poland was the catalyst for World War II. During the Nazi occupation, Polish citizens were subject to interrogation and torture at the hands of officers of the Gestapo, the Nazi secret police
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The Battle of the Atlantic is commonly described as a decisive race between the ability of Admiral Karl Donitz’s submarine wolf packs to sink merchant tonnage and the Allies’ ability to build new ships and successfully devise antisubmarine tactics.
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The Winter War was a military conflict between the Soviet Union and Finland. It began with a Soviet invasion of Finland on 30 November 1939, three months after the outbreak of World War II, and ended three and a half months later with the Moscow Peace Treaty on 13 March 1940.
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Operation Barbarossa was a code name for the German invasion of the Soviet Union, which was launched on June 22, 1941.
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- The Atlantic Charter was a joint declaration released by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
- Provided a broad statement of U.S. and British war aims.
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-The Siege of Leningrad was a military blockade
-Undertaken from the south by the Army Group North of Nazi Germany against the Russian city of Leningrad -
The Battle of Moscow was a military campaign that consisted of two periods of strategically significant fighting
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- Dec 7 1941 Japanese fighter pilots attacked the US naval base at pearl harbor
- Was as surprise attack without a declaration of war
- They attacked the US navy so they could invade south east Asia and the pacific islands
- There were 134 planes that attacked Pearl harbor
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- The Battle of the coral sea was the first major battle in which the posing fleets did not site each other
- All aircraft combat
- Strategic US victory
- Two task forces were assembled in the Coral Sea under Adm. Frank Jack Fletcher
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- The battle of midway was a naval battle that occurred during ww2
- Occurred in 1942 Retaliation to a US attack on Tokyo
- We sunk 3 of their ships
- The US made them abandon the invasion
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The Guadalcanal Campaign, also known as the Battle of Guadalcanal was a military campaign fought between 7 August 1942 and 9 February 1943
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The Battle of Stalingrad was the largest confrontation of World War II, in which Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad
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The Battle of Iwo Jima, was a major battle in which the United States Marine Corps landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Imperial Japanese Army
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- This battle was the largest and final battle between the US and Japan.
- The Americans hoped to capture the island, so it could be used to stage raids against the Japanese mainland
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During the final stage of World War II, the United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9 1945.
