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Blitzkrieg
Hitler launched his blitzkrieg (lightning war) against Holland and Belgium. Rotterdam was bombed almost to extinction. Both countries were occupied. -
Nazi olympics
Nazi Germany used the 1936 Olympic Games for propaganda purposes. The Nazis promoted an image of a new, strong and united Germany while masking the regimen's targeting of Jews and Rome (Gypsies as well as Germany's growing militarism. -
The Battle of Guadalcanal
The Guadalcanal Campaign, also known as the Battle of Guadalcanal and codenamed Operation Watchtower by American forces, was a military campaign fought between 7 August 1942 and 9 February 1943 on and around the island of Guadalcanal in the Pacific theater. -
Cash and carry Act
With Roosevelt as president many new law were created like the Cash and carry act that aided the Allies during the WWII allowing countries at war to purchase American goods as long as they paid cash and picked up their orders in America ports, the purpose of Roosevelt was that with it would allow the Allies to slow Hitler's advances. -
German forces turn to the West
When Great Britain and France declared the war on Germany, they were known as the allies, this was created as a strategy to slow Hitler in Poland. While the German military leaders were making invasion plans through the dense Ardennes forest in northern France and Belgium. -
The arsenal of democracy
With Roosevelt as president for a third time he declared his goal of making the United States the arsenal of democracy, since he had given military aid to the nations fighting against the axis powers. Also the Lend Lease Act was passed which allowed to give weapons to England without having to pay. -
The election of 1940
For the first time Roosevelt decided to run for a third term as president, with the business leader Wendell Willkie as opponent, this election gave Roosevelt the victory were he continued to provide aid to the allies in the fight against Hitler's armies. -
Four Freedoms
Roosevelt delivers the Four Freedoms speech about the future of the world. -
Soviet Union
Germany begins its invasion of the soviet union. -
Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor is a U.S. naval base near Honolulu, Hawaii, that was the scene of a devastating surprise attack by Japanese forces, before 8 a.m. hundreds of Japaneses fighter planes descended on the base, where they managed to destroy or damage nearly 20 American naval vessels, including eight battleships, and over 300 airplanes. -
Battle of Stalingrad
The war started when Hitler broke his nonaggression pact with Stalin and sent his forces into the Soviet Union. The Germans attacked Stalingrad in 1942, was a battle between Russian forces, Nazis Germany and the Axis power, where many soldiers of both sides died, one of the most bloodiest battles in the WWII. -
Battle of Coral Sea
The battle took place as Japanese forces were preparing to invade the British controlled Port Moresby on the island of New Guinea. -
Battle of Midway
Americans destroy four Japanese aircraft carriers.
The Battle of Midway was a decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II only six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea. -
The Soviet Union Finally defeats the Germans
The enormous scale of this particularly ferocious war is hard to comprehend. It started with Russia totally disadvantaged, but the turn-around was awesome, as Stalin's war machine revved into action. Richard Overy explains how the Soviets turned disaster into a victory that led to the formation of a Communist superpower. -
Allies invade Sicily
The Allied invasion of Sicily, codenamed Operation Husky, was a major campaign, in which the Allies took the island of Sicily from the Axis powers. It began with a large amphibious and airborne operation, followed by a six-week land campaign, and initiated the Italian Campaign. -
D-Day
Was another name for the battle of Normandy that resulted in the allied liberation of western Europe from Nazi Germany's control, were some 156,000 American British and Canadian forces landed on the coast of France's Normandy region. By the end of the battle all of Northern France had been liberated. -
Allies launch invasion of France
The Western Allies of World War II launched the largest amphibious invasion in history when they assaulted Normandy, located on the northern coast of France. The invaders were able to establish a beachhead as part of Operation Overlord after a successful "D-Day," the first day of the invasion. -
Battle of the Buldge
Battle between Germany and the allied forces, were the German advance created a bulge in the allied battle lines. Were Adolph Hitler wanted to split the allied armies in Northwest Europe. It was the last major German offensive campaign on the western Front. -
Atomic bomb
Is a powerful weapon that uses energy released by the splitting of atoms, the research for building a atomic bomb started in 1939, by the physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer. The first bomb was dropped over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. -
Russia declares war on Japan
Russia declared war on Japan and invaded Japanese-ruled Manchuria. -
Japanese surrender
The Japanese unconditionally surrendered to the allies ending the second world war. -
MacArthur accepts Japan’s surrender
US General, Douglas MacArthur, accepted Japan’s surrender thus formally ending the second world war.
