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Germany Invades Poland
September 01, 1939,Germany invades Poland and German troops drop bombs in mid air. Then German people rule Poland. They went to war because Hilter intended to wage and he used to the "bilizkreig' strategy. -
Germany invades France and captures Paris
German troops invades France then went to Paris. Germany went to war because in ww1 they lost against France and they wanted there prior back and wanted more land. -
Germany bombs London
German bombers raid London, in the first of 57 consecutive nights of bombing. This bombing blitzkrieg would continue until May 1941.Hitler wanted a submissive, neutralized Britain so that he could concentrate on his plans for the East, namely the land invasion of the Soviet Union, without interference. -
Lend-Lease
The Lend-Lease Act was the principal means for providing U.S. military aid to foreign nations during World War II.Lend-Lease brought the United States one step closer to entry into the war. -
Operation Barbarossa
Adolf Hitler launched his armies eastward in a massive invasion of the Soviet Union. Three army groups with over three million German soldiers, 150 divisions, and three thousand tanks smashed across the frontier into Soviet territory. -
Germany invaded the Soviet Union
Hitler launched his armies eastward in a massive invasion of the Soviet Union three army groups with over three million German soldiers, 150 divisions, and three thousand tanks smashed across the frontier into Soviet territory. -
Pearl Harbor
Hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii.The Japanese managed to destroy nearly 20 American naval vessels, including eight enormous battleships, and more than 300 airplanes. -
USA declared war
The day after the assault, President Franklin D. Roosevelt asked Congress to declare war on Japan. Japanese allie Germany also declared war on the United States, and Congress approved his declaration. America had finally joined World War II. -
United States declared war on Japan and Germany
Roosevelt’s 10-minute speech, ending with an oath-“So help us God was greeted in the House by thunderous applause and stamping of feet. Within one hour, the president had his declaration of war, with only one dissenting vote, from a pacifist in the House. FDR signed the declaration at 4:10 p.m. -
Germany declared war on US
Germany went to war with the United States because of the European conflict. Although Hitler had made an oral agreement with his Axis partner Japan that Germany would join a war against the United States, he was uncertain as to how the war would be engaged. Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor answered that question. -
Bataan Death March
After the U.S. surrender of the Bataan Peninsula on the main Philippine island of Luzon to the Japanese, around 75,000 Filipino and American troops on Bataan were forced to make a 65-mile march to prison camps. The marchers made the trek in the heat and were subjected to harsh treatment by Japanese. Thousands perished in what became known as the Bataan Death March. -
Battle of Midway
In the four-day sea and air battle, U.S. Pacific Fleet succeeded in destroying four Japanese aircrafts with over five thousand sailors. The United States defeated Japan at midway an important turning point in the war. -
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
From April 19 to May 16, 1943 residents of the Jewish ghetto in Nazi occupied Warsaw, Poland, staged an armed revolt against deportations to extermination camps. The Warsaw ghetto uprising inspired other revolts in extermination camps and ghettos throughout Europe -
D-Day
D-Day is the day the Allied powers crossed the English Channel and landed on the beaches of Normandy, France, beginning the liberation of Western Europe from Nazi control during World War II. By the end of D-Day 155,000 Allied troops–Americans, British and Canadians–had successfully stormed Normandy’s beaches. -
Battle of the Bulge
Hitler attempted to split the Allied armies in northwest Europe by means of a surprise blitzkrieg thrust through the Ardennes to Antwerp. Caught off guard American units fought desperate battles to stem the German advance at St.Vith, Elsenborn Ridge, Houffalize and Bastogne. As the Germans drove deeper into the Ardennes in an attempt to secure vital bridgeheads, the Allied line took on the appearance of a large bulge -
United States dropped two atomic bombs on Japan
The U.S deployed the first atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion destroyed 90 percent of the city and killed tens of thousands. Three days later, a second bomb dropped on Nagasaki, killing an estimated 40,000 people. Japan’s Emperor Hirohito announced his country’s surrender in World War II
