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World war 2
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Germán invasión of Poland
Hitler had attacked Poland because he wanted Germans to live there. He considered the Polish people inferior and only fit as a work force. In the last three months of 1939, the Nazis murdered 65,000 Jewish and non-Jewish Poles. -
Fall of France
The Battle of France was the German invasion of France during the Second World War. France and the Low Countries were conquered, ending land operations on the Western Front -
Operation Barbarossa
Operation Barbarossa was the invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany and many of its Axis allies. It was the largest land offensive in human history, with around 10 million combatants taking part. -
Battle of Britain
Germany's failure to defeat the RAF and secure control of the skies over southern England made invasion all but impossible. British victory in the Battle of Britain was decisive, but ultimately defensive in nature -
Pearl Harbor attack
The attack of Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service in the USA against the American base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawai, before 8:00 a.m. on Sunday, December 7, 1941. -
Usa declares war
war was declared against Axis-allied Hungary, Bulgaria, and Romania, because President Franklin Roosevelt thought it was improper to engage in hostilities against a country without a formal declaration of war. -
Mexico joins war
Mexico became an active belligerent in World War II in 1942 after Germany sank two of its tankers. The Mexican foreign secretary, Ezequiel Padilla, took the lead in urging other Latin American countries to support the Allies as well. -
Battle of midway
The Battle of Midway was a major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II, six months after the Empire of Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea. -
Manhattan project
The Manhattan Project was an unprecedented, top-secret World War II government program in which the United States rushed to develop and deploy the world’s first atomic weapons before Nazi Germany. The use of these weapons by the United States against Japan in August 1945 ultimately became one of the most important historical events of the 20th century. -
Battle of Stalingrad
Battle of Stalingrad was a major battle on the Eastern Front of World War II where Nazi Germany and its allies unsuccessfully fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia. The battle was marked by fierce close-quarters combat and direct assaults on civilians in air raids, with the battle epitomizing urban warfare. It was the bloodiest battle of the Second World War, with both sides suffering enormous casualties -
Operation Overlord
Operation Overlord, the Allied forces landed troops on Normandy beaches for the largest amphibious assault in history, beginning the march eastward to defeat Germany. In a larger strategic sense, the successful Allied landing in France was a psychological blow to the German occupation of Europe -
Hitler commits suicide
Adolf Hitler, chancellor and dictator of Germany from 1933 to 1945, committed suicide via a gunshot to the head on 30 April 1945 in the Führerbunker in Berlin after it became clear that Germany would lose the Battle of Berlin, which led to the end of World War II in Europe. -
VE day
The war had been raging for almost five years when U.S. and Allied forces landed on the beaches of Normandy, France, on June 6, 1944. The invasion signaled the beginning of the end for Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany. In less than a year, Germany would surrender and Hitler would be dead. -
Atomic bombings in Hiroshima, and Nagasaki
On 6 and 9 August 1945, the United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki respectively. The bombings killed between 129,000 and 226,000 people, most of whom were civilians, and remain the only use of nuclear weapons in an armed conflict. Japan surrendered to the Allies on 15 August, six days after the bombing of Nagasaki and the Soviet Union's declaration of war against Japan and invasion of Japanese-occupied Manchuria. -
VE day
is the day on which Imperial Japan surrendered in World War II, in effect bringing the war to an end. The term has been applied to both of the days on which the initial announcement of Japan's surrender was made. 15 August 1945, in Japan, and because of time zone differences, 14 August 1945 as well as to 2 September 1945, when the surrender document was signed, officially ending World War II.