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September - Invasion of 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 6 October of that same year. It was the detonation of the Second World War in Europe and ended the Second Polish Republic. -
May - German defensive to the east
In May 1940, the Germans estimated that the Allies had about 75 divisions concentrated in Great Britain. Of that total, 65 divisions, including 6 airborne, were considered suitable for invasion. It was believed that they were integrated by 20 or 25 American divisions and 40 to 45 British. -
June - Invasion of the USSR
On the morning of June 22, 1941, more than 3 million German soldiers began the invasion of the USSR. The Soviet army had 2.9 million of soldiers on the western border and was 2 times higher than the Germans in tanks and 10 times in aircraft. Many of his tanks were outdated, but others were much more sophisticated than the Germans.Hitler had come to the conclusion that his main strategy was to block the Soviet Army during the battle and defeat him before he could escape the country. -
December - Japanese attack on Peart 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, in 1941. The attack was intended to be a preventive action aimed at avoiding 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 against the Ultramarine possessions of the kingdom Kingdom, France, Netherlands and the United States. -
June - American victory at Midway
Japan's defeat was a serious obstacle to its expansion plans for the rest of the ocean and was a ' turning point ' in the whole of the conflict. For this reason, Midway is generally considered the most important battle of the Pacific War and one of the most decisive of the Second World War. -
Nov-February - Battle of Stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad was a historic clash between the Red Army of the Soviet Union and the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany and its Axis allies for the control of the Soviet city of Stalingrad, Royal Volgograd.The battle took place in the course of the German invasion of the Soviet Union, within the framework of the Second World War. -
November - Allied landings in north Africa
The North Africa campaign began in June 1940 and continued for three years, while Axis forces and allies pushed backwards and forwards across the desert. At the beginning of the war, Libya had been an Italian colony for several decades and British forces had been in neighboring Egypt since 1882. The two armies began skirmishes almost as soon as Italy declared war on the Allies in 1940. -
September - Italy surrenders
After crossing the line Gustav the Allies enter Rome and the German Army withdraws in order to the north of Italy, where it manages to entrench itself in another line of defense, the Gothic Line, resisting the allied attacks. -
June - Allied landings in Normandy
On June 6, when Operation Overlord Advanced, approximately 160.000 Allied troops crossed the channel of La Mancha, with seven thousand ships and ships, and landed on the coast of Normandy.The maritime invasion included nearly 5,000 τloj and assault vessels, 289 escort ships, and 277 minesweepers. -
May - Germany surrenders
After six years the end of that second great World War, known as the Great War, was about to come to an end. Two of the great characters of that historical fact had disappeared from the political map: Roosevelt, the American president, had died on April 12, while on the other side, Adolf Hitler, the German Führer, had committed suicide in a bunker near Berlin just 18 days later after finding that the war was lost and its ideals of a great Reich toppled. -
August - Atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
They were nuclear attacks ordered by Harry S. Truman, President of the United States, against the Empire of Japan. The attacks were carried out on 6 and 9 August 1945, respectively, which contributed, together with the Soviet-Japanese war, to the surrender of Japan and the end of the Second World War. -
September - Japan surrenders
Japan's surrender in World War II occurred on August 15, 1945 and was signed on September 2, 1945. The Empire of Japan accepted the Potsdam declaration signed by the United States, the United Kingdom, the Republic of China and the Soviet Union.
