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The invasion of Poland
The 1st of September 1939, the September Campaign began, and the German Wehrmacht marched over Poland. The Soviets also invaded Poland from the east. The campaign ended the 6th October , with de division of Poland between the two invaders. Two days later Britain and France declared war on Germany. -
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German invasion of France
The Fall of France, was the German invasion of France and the Low Countries during the Second World War. Although the French built the Maginot Line to avoid future invasions, the German Strategists planed to attack through the Ardennes. In 46 days, the Wehrmacht annihilated the Allied troops and occupied the Western part of France. -
The Battle of Britain
The Battle of Britain was a military campaign of the WW2 in which the German Luftwaffe tried to gain aerial domination over the British RAF. The fist plan was to bomb all British airports in the islands so their air force could became useless. Gadgets like the radar supposed great advantages in the British side. -
Hitler and the Afrika Korps
The Deutsches Afrikakorps was a German military force send to Noth Africa by Hitler in order to help the Italian troops that were fightning in this front against the Allies. Erwin Rommel was the chief commander of this force, he gained a lot of popularity in this front, and was nicknamed "the Desert Fox" -
Operation Barbarossa
Operation Barbarossa was the code name that the Germans gave to the invasion of the USSR. The operation put into action Nazi Germany's ideological goal of conquering the western Soviet Union so as to repopulate it with Germans. The operation failled, so the wehrmacht had to withdraw in defeat, the following years, the soviets gained territory, and in 1945, they reached Berlin. -
Attack on Pearl Harbor
The Attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise aerial strike in which the Imperial air force tried to end with the American fleet in the Pacific, the second bigggest one in the area. This event brought USA into WW2, and also marks the begining of the War in the Pacific. -
Operation Torch
Operation Torch 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. The American General Dwight D. Eisenhower, commanding the operation, planned a three-pronged attack on Casablanca, Oran and Algiers , then a rapid move on Tunis. -
Allied landing on Salerno
Operation Avalanche was the codename for the Allied landings near the port of Salerno, executed on 9 September 1943, part of the Allied invasion of Italy. The Italians withdrew from the war the day before the invasion, but the Allies landed in an area defended by German troops. The 25th of April, Italy was liberated. -
D-DAY
The Normandy landings were the landing operations and associated airborne operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. 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. -
The Liberation of Paris
The Liberation of Paris was a military battle that took place during World War II from 19 August 1944 until the German garrison surrendered the French capital on 25 August 1944. Paris had been ruled by Nazi Germany since the signing of the Second Compiègne Armistice on 22 June 1940, after which the Wehrmacht occupied northern and western France. -
Adolf Hitler commits suicide
On April 30, 1945, holed up in a bunker under his headquarters in Berlin, Adolf Hitler and his wife Eva Braun commit suicide by swallowing a cyanide capsule and shooting themselves in the head. Soon after, Germany unconditionally surrendered to the Allied forces, ending Hitler’s dreams of a “1,000-year” Reich. -
Little Boy and Hiroshima
On August 6, 1945, during World War II , an American B-29 bomber (Enola Gay) dropped the world's first deployed atomic bomb (Little Boy) 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. -
Jamaon oficially Surrenders
The surrender of Imperial Japan was announced by Japanese Emperor Hirohito on August 15 and formally signed on September 2, 1945, bringing the hostilities of World War II to a close. Together with the British Empire and China, the USA called for the unconditional surrender of the Japanese armed forces in the Potsdam Declaration on July 26, 1945.
