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September 1; Germany invades Poland.
The German invasion of Poland was a military action of Nazi Germany aimed at annexing the Polish territory. The technical operation, known as the "White Case", began on September 1, 1939 and the last units of the Polish army surrendered on October 6 of that same year. -
September 1: Germany invades Poland.
The German invasion of Poland was a military action of Nazi Germany aimed at annexing the Polish territory. The technical operation, known as the "White Case", began on September 1, 1939 and the last units of the Polish army surrendered on October 6 of that same year. -
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SECOND WORLD WAR
It was a global military conflict that took place between 1939 and 1945. In this, most of the nations of the world were involved. -
September 3: Britain and France declare war on Germany.
The Battles of the Frontier conclude with the total Polish defeat. The Germans break the front in all sectors. -
September 3: Britain and France declare war on Germany.
The Battles of the Frontier conclude with the total Polish defeat. The Germans break the front in all sectors. -
September 17: Russia invades Poland.
Important victory for the Red Army of the Soviet Union. -
April 9: Germany invades Denmark and Norway.
The Germans crossed the Danish border in violation of their neutrality. To avoid useless bloodshed, the Danish government surrendered almost immediately, and as a reward their autonomy was respected and the Jewish community was allowed to escape. -
May 14: German forces invade France.
The battle of France in the field of the Second World War, began after the attack of the Wehrmacht (German armed forces) on the territory of France and the Benelux on May 10, 1940, and ended with the capitulation of the French government on the 25th. June of the same year. -
June 10: Italian dictator Benito Mussolini declares war on the Allies.
Decides on June 10, without the approval of the Fascist Grand Council, that Italy enters the conflict, and declares war on France and England. It orders the attack on the British army in Africa, and despite some initial triumphs, in the end the war extends longer than anticipated. -
June 25: France surrenders.
The French army was more numerous and was superior in armamiento but the Germans surpassed them in technology and that caused the defeat of France. -
June 22: Germany invades Russia.
Early in the morning of June 22, 1941 Barbarossa Operation began, the German invasion of the Soviet Union during the Second World War.
The attack was by surprise, as to date, Germany and the Soviet Union were allies according to the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact of August 1939, but despite that the Germans feared that the Soviets would break it before. -
December 7: Japan, already at war with China, enters the conflict with attack on American fleet at Pearl Harbour.
The war between the Republic of China and the Japanese Empire, before and during World War II, which ended the surrender of Japan in 1945. The Japanese invasion was a strategic plan designed by the Japanese imperial army as part of the large-scale plans to control continental Asia. From 1937 to 1941 China fought alone, but after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the second Sino-Japanese war was mixed with the conflict in World War II. -
August 13: Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery takes command of the 8th Army.
The Eighth Army was a field army formation of the British Army during the Second World War, fighting in the North African and Italian campaigns. Units came from Australia, British India, Canada, Free French Forces, Greece, New Zealand, Poland, Rhodesia, South Africa and the United Kingdom. -
July 25: Mussolini is overthrown.
Mussolini is arrested by order of the King of Italy Víctor Manuel III. -
June 5: Rome falls to the Allies.
On the June 5th 1944, the people of Rome flooded into the streets to welcome the arrival of the Allied troops. The men had marched from the south, following their success at the Battle of Monte Cassino. -
June 6: D-Day invasion begins on the beaches of Normandy in the famous Operation Overlord.
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 (and later Europe) from Nazicontrol, and laid the foundations of the Allied victory on the Western Front. -
June 13: First V-1 bombs land on London.
Was an early cruise missile and the only production aircraft to use a pulsejet for power.
The V-1 was the first of the so-called "Vengeance weapons" (V-weapons or Vergeltungswaffen) series designed for terror bombing of London. -
July 20: Bomb plot against Hitler narrowly fails.
Other conspirators attempted to assassinate Adolf Hitler, Führer of Nazi Germany, inside his Wolf's Lair field headquarters near Rastenburg, East Prussia. The name Operation Valkyrie—originally referring to part of the conspiracy—has become associated with the entire event.
The apparent aim of the assassination attempt was to wrest political control of Germany and its armed forces from the Nazi Party(including the SS) and to make peace with the Western Allies as soon as possible. -
April 12: US President Franklin Roosevelt dies.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies of a stroke. He is succeeded by his vice president, the Democrat Harry S. Truman. -
May 9: Nazi Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel signs unconditional surrender to Red Army in Berlin.
Victory Day is the celebration of the victory of the Soviet Union and the Allies over Nazi Germany, or Great Patriotic War, as it was denominated in the Soviet Union. -
August 6: "Little Boy" atomic bomb is dropped on Hiroshima by US B-29 bomber Enola Gay.
Little Boy was a bomb whose design had not yet been tested on the day of the launch, since the only previous test of a nuclear weapon was plutonium, while Little Boy was uranium, on whose reliability did not harbor so many doubts. -
August 9: "Fat Man" atomic bomb is dropped on Nagasaki.
The weapon was launched from the B-29 Bockscar bomber, piloted by Commander Charles Sweeney.2 Despite having almost twice the power as Little Boy launched in Hiroshima three days before, the extent of the damage was smaller due to the topography of Nagasaki, however it is estimated that 40,000 people died in this attack and another 25,000 were injured, and several thousand would die later due to related injuries, poisoning and residual radiation. -
August 14: Emperor Hirohito announces unconditional surrender of Japan and papers are signed on board the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay.
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August 15: Victory over Japan Day (VJ Day), or VP Day (Victory in the Pacific) is celebrated.
The Empire of Japan accepted the Declaration of Potsdam signed by the United States, the United Kingdom, the Republic of China and the Soviet Union.
