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German Blitzkrieg
Germany quickly overran much of Europe and was victorious for more than two years by relying on a new military tactic called the "Blitzkrieg" or lightning war. Blitzkrieg tactics needed the concentration of offensive weapons such as tanks, planes, and artillery along a narrow front. -
Fall of Paris
German forces defeated Allied forces by mobile operations and conquered France, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, bringing land operations on the Western Front to an end until June 61944. Italy entered the war on 10 June 1940 and attempted an invasion of France. -
Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory, on the morning of December 7, 1941 -
Normandy Invasion
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, on June 6, 1944 -
Battle of the Bulge
It was the largest battle fought on the Western Front in Europe during World War II. The Germans created a “bulge” around the area of the Ardennes forest in pushing through the American defensive line. The Germans won. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
It was a major battle in which the United States Marine Corps landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. Americans won. -
Liberation of Camps
British forces liberated concentration camps in northern Germany, including Neuengamme and Bergen-Belsen. They entered the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, near Celle, Some 60,000 prisoners and most were in critical condition because of a typhus epidemic, were found alive. -
VE Day
The public holiday celebrated
to mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces. The allied forces had won. -
The Dropping of the Atomic Bombs
The United States dropped two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan, leading to a Japanese surrender in World War II. -
VJ Day
The day on which Imperial Japan surrendered in World War II, in effect ending the war. America had beaten the Japanese.
