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Germany invades Poland
German tanks and troop trucks go across the Polish border and the German aircraft began a bombing on Poland's capital Warsaw. -
War is declared
France and Britain declare war on Germany. -
Hitler sweep through the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg
While everything seemed calmed after the first attack and people though nothing else was going to happen they do a strategy to strike at France. -
France surrenders to Germany
By June 14 Germans had taken Paris, and by surrendering Germanys took control of the northern part. -
Battle of Britain begans
Until May 10, 1941. Starting when Germany's air force start to bomb Great Britain and showing the Allies that Hitler's attacks could be blocked. -
Germans invade Soviet Union
Having the largest army in the world, the of the German tanks and aircraft began to invade, week by week getting deeper in. -
Japan attacks Pearl Harbor
Japan had attacked, sunking and damaging 19 ships, including 8 battleships, killing 2,300 Americans. Same day Congress accepted President Roosvelt request for the declaration of war on Japan and its allies. -
Allies defeat Japan at Battle of Midway
Japan had tried to target Midway Island, allowing them to begin the battle American planes than come to attack the Japanese fleet destroying 332 Japanese plans and all 4 aircrafts carriers and one support ship. -
Battle of Stalingrad
It begans and Germans had 90 percent of the ruined city, but Soviet troops outside the city cut off the supplies and trapping them. -
German's surrender at Stalingrad
The half-starved German troops surrender to the Soviets. The Stalingrad's defence had cost the Soviet over one millon soilders though and the city was 99 percent destroyed. But the Germans were on the defense. -
Battle of Guadalcanal
Allies defeat Japan at Guadlcanal, Japanese abandoned what they came to call "the Island of Death" and losing 24,00 of a force of 36,000 soilders. -
D-Day invasion takes place
It was an attack towards Germany. British, American, French and Canadian troops fought their way onto 60 mile stretch of beach in Normandy. -
Battle of Leyte Gulf
Japanese suffer devastating defeat, eliminating it as a fighting force in the war. And at the end American Marines took Iwo Jima. -
The Battle of the Bulge
German tanks broke through weak American defenses along 75-mile front in the Ardennes -
Germany surrenders
After the Battle of the Bulge the war in Europe was basicall cooing down. and on May 7 General Eisenhower accepted the unconditional surrender of the third Reich from the Germand military. -
United States attacks
United States drops an atomic bomb on Hiroshima killing 700,000 to 80,000 people. -
Japan Surrenders
Japan had finally surrendered to General Douglas MacArthur , taking place on the United States battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay.
