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Invasion of Poland
The invasion of Poland was an invasion of Poland by Germany that marked the beginning. of the Second World War. The German invasion began one week after the signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact between Germany and the Soviet Union. The campaign ended on October 6 with Germany and the Soviet Union dividing and annexing all of Poland under the terms of the Border Treaty between Germany and the Soviet Union. -
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Invasion of USSR
Operation Barbarossa was the code name given by Adolf Hitler to the invasion plan of the Soviet Union by the Axis Forces during the Second World War. This operation opened the Eastern Front, which became the theater of one of the largest operations of the war, scene of the biggest and most brutal battles of the conflict in Europe. The name of the operation is a tribute to Federico I Barbarroja. -
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
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. -
American victory at midway
Battle of Midway, (from June 3 to 6, 1942), the naval battle of World War II, was fought almost entirely with airplanes, in which the United States destroyed Japan's frontline force and most of its Naval pilots better trained. -
Allied landings in North Africa
Operation Torch (November 8-16, 1942) was an Anglo-American invasion of northern French Africa during World War II. Its objective was to reduce the pressure on the allied forces in Egypt and allow an invasion of southern Europe. -
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Italy surrenders
1943: Italy's surrender announced. Italy has signed an unconditional armistice with the Allies, General Dwight D Eisenhower has announced. The surrender was signed five days ago in secret by a representative of Marshal Pietro Badoglio, Italy's prime minister since the downfall of Benito Mussolini in July. -
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Atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
On August 6, 1945, during World War II (1939-45), an American B-29 bomber dropped the world's first deployed atomic bomb 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. -
Germany surrenders
On May 7, 1945, Germany officially surrendered to the allies, ending the European conflict in World War II. General Alfred Jodl, who represents the German High Command, signed the unconditional surrender of the East and West forces in Reims, France, which would take effect the following day. -
Japan surrender
The surrender of imperial Japan was announced by Hirohito on August 15 and formally signed on September 2, 1945, which put an end to the hostilities of World War II. At the end of July 1945, the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) was unable to perform major operations and an allied invasion of Japan was imminent.
