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September 1939 / Invasion of Poland / Axis victories and expansion
The German invasion of Poland, began on September 1, 1939. It has been considered the trigger of the Second World War. Before that, the question of Poland was among the secret clauses of the Non-Aggression Pact signed between Germany and the USSR in August 1939. They stipulated that the country would be annexed and divided into two areas: one for the Soviets and the other one for the Germans. -
May 1940 / German offensive to the east / Axis victories and expansion
In a month and a half, between May 10 and June 22, 1940, the German Armored Forces completely thwarted allied strategic plans and inflicted a total defeat on France, Belgium, Holland and the British Expeditionary Force. -
June 1941 / Invasion of the USSR / Axis victories and expansion
With the code name "Operation Barbarossa", Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, in what was the largest German military operation of the Second World War.
The destruction of the Soviet Union through the use of military force, the permanent elimination of what was perceived as a communist threat to Germany, and the confiscation of important land within the Soviet borders to establish German settlements had been a policy central to the Nazi movement since the 1920s. -
December 1941 / Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor / Axis victories and expansion
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military offensive by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base in Pearl Harbor (Hawaii) on the morning of Sunday, December 7, 1941. The attack was intended as a preventive action aimed at to avoid the intervention of the United States Pacific Fleet in the military actions that the Empire of Japan was planning to carry out in Southeast Asia. -
November 1942 - February 1943 / Battle of Stalingrad / Allied victories and conquests
It was one of the most important landmarks of the Second World War. More, from that moment, which was joined later by the battle of thousands of tanks and Russian troops in Kursk, marked the final defeat of Germany, which began to recede until it was tight in its own territory.
Hitler's fate was sealed. He could not do more solvents or traps. -
June 1942 / American victory at Midway / Allied victories and conquest
The Battle of Midway was a naval confrontation that took place in 1942 in the Pacific Ocean between US and Japanese forces, during World War II, six months after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, which had marked the beginning of the war in the Pacific. In this way, the Japanese combat capability in the sea and in the air was permanently diminished: the Empire of the rising Sun would lose the military initiative for what was left of World War II. -
November 1942 / Allied landings in North Africa / Allied victories and conquests
77 years ago, troops from the United States and the United Kingdom landed on the beaches of Morocco and Algeria, which is still considered the first major Mediterranean operation of the Second World War.
Known as Operation Torch, the landing began at dawn on November 8, 1942 and, just two days later, ended the resistance of the French Government of Vichy, in North Africa and granted the Allies control of the beaches that they extend from Casablanca to Algiers. -
September 1943 / Italy surrenders / Allied victories and conquests
The Armistice with Italy was an armistice, signed on September 3 and publicly declared on September 8, 1943, during the Second World War, between Italy and the Allied armed forces, which had occupied the extreme south of the country, which led to the Italian capitulation. -
June 1944 / Allied landings in Normandy / Allied victories and conquests
Known as D-Day, on June 6, 1944, the Allied forces launched a combined naval, air and land assault against Nazi-occupied France. Known the operation with the code name of Overlord, the allied landings in the beaches of Normandy would mark the beginning of a long and expensive campaign to liberate the northwest of Europe from the German occupation. -
August 1945 / Atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki / Allied victories and conquests
The atomic bombings on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were nuclear attacks ordered by Harry Truman, president of the United States of America, against the Empire of Japan. The attacks took place on August 6 and August 9, 1945, and put an end to World War II. -
September 1945 / Japan surrenders / Allied victories and conquests / End of the Second World War
The surrender of Japan in World War II occurred on August 15, 1945 and was signed on September 2, 1945. Japan accepted the Declaration of Potsdam signed by the United States, the United Kingdom, the Republic of China and the Union Soviet.
After the defeat of Nazi Germany on May 8, 1945 and the surrender of the Empire of Japan on September 2, 1945 , the Second World War ended. It was the end of the period of the World War and the beginning of the Cold War in the history of the world. -
May 1945 / Germany surrenders / Allied victories and conquests
The capitulation of Germany was carried out in two phases. The first one was made a week after Hitler's suicide (April 30, 1945). Before committing suicide, he named Admiral Karl Dönitz as successor who tried unsuccessfully to agree to a partial surrender to the British and Americans. This attempt was unsuccessful, the allies demanded unconditional surrender.
The second phase of the surrender had an absolute protagonism of the Soviet troops, promoted the signing of the capitulation.
