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Germany's invasion of Poland
1.5 million invaded Poland. German Luftwaffe bombed Polish airfields, and German warships and U-boats attcked Polish navel forces in the Baltic Sea. Hitler said it was a defensive action, but Britain and France were not convinced. Two days later Poland declared war on Germany, leading to World War Two. -
German Blitzkrieg
Is a military tactic designed to create disorganization among enemy forces through the use of mobile forces and locally concentrated firepower. It happened to prevent repetition of the attritional deadlock in World War Two. It successfully execution the results in short military campaigns, which preserves human lives and limits the experiditure of artillery. -
Pearl Harbor
When hundreds of Japanese flighter planes attcked the American naval base near Honolulu, Hawaii. Japan and the U.S had been edging toward war for decades, the U.S had been unhappy with Japan's increasing belligerent attitude toward China. This lead America to join World War Two. -
D-Day
When 156,000 American, British, and Canadian forces landed on five beaches along a fifty mile streach of the heavy fortied coast of Frances Normandy regoin. Germany was scared. This resulted in the allied liberation of Western Europe from Nazi Germany's control. -
Battle Of Bulge
An attempt to push the allied front line west from northern France to northwestern Belgium. Happened because of Hitler's plan to launch a counter-offensive to thrust through the allied armies in the Ardennes regoin of Northwest Europe and recaptured Antwerp in Belgium. The result was the Allied victory. -
Battle Of Iwo Jima
Iwo Jima was defended roughly 23,000 Japanese army and navy troops. The Americans amphiblous invasion of Iwo Jima was a key Island in the Bonin chain. American lossing, included 5,900 dead and 17,400 wounded. -
Battle Of Okinawa
This was the last and the biggest of the pacific Island of World War Two. This event ended eighty second day after it had started. There were more than 100,000 Japanese defenders on the island, but most were deeply entrenched in the island’s densely forested interior. By the evening of April 1,600,000 U.S. troops had come safely ashore. -
VE Day
Great Britain and the United States celebrate Victory in Europe Day. Cities in both nations, as well as formerly occupied cities in Western Europe, put out flags and banners, rejoicing in the defeat of the Nazi war machine. -
Dropping of the Atomic Bomb
At 8:16 a.m. Japanese time, on this day, an American B-29 bomber, the Enola Gay, dropped the world’s first atom bomb, over the city of Hiroshima. Approximately 80,000 people are killed as a direct result of the blast, and another 35,000 are injured. At least another 60,000 were dead by the end of the year. U.S. President Harry S. Truman, discouraged by the Japanese response to the Potsdam Conference’s demand for unconditional surrender, made the decision to use the atom bomb to end the war. -
VJ Day
On August 14, 1945, it was announced that Japan had surrendered unconditionally to the Allies, effectively ending World War II. Since then, both August 14 and August 15 have been known as “Victoryover Japan Day,” or simply “V-J Day.”
