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German Blitzkrieg
The German Blitzkrieg is a military tactic designed to create disorganization among enemy forces through the use of mobile forces and locally concentrated firepower. Its successful execution results in short military campaigns, which preserves human lives and limits the expenditure of artillery. -
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World War II
World War II was a global war. -
Fall of Paris
The Fall of Paris was the German invasion of France and the Low Countries during the Second World War. The French had built a defensive 280-mile long fort, all along the Franco-German border as protection against a future German attack. -
Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor was an aerial attack on the U.S. base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, by the Japanese that precipitated the entry of the United States into World War II. -
Wannsee Conference
The Wannsee Conference was a meeting of government officials of Nazi Germany and Schutzstaffel leaders that was held in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee on 20 January 1942. -
Allied invasion of Italy
The invasion started when the US Seventh Army commanded by General Patton, and the British Eighth Army under Montgomery, landed south of Syracuse. It was the Allied amphibious landing on mainland Italy that took place on 3 September 1943 during the early stages of the Italian Campaign of World War II. -
D-day
The Battle of Normandy resulted in the Allied liberation of Western Europe from Nazi Germany’s control. Code named "Operation Overlord" was the battle also known as D-Day. It was when some 156,000 American, British and Canadian forces landed on five beaches along a 50-mile stretch of the heavily fortified coast of France’s Normandy region. -
Battle of the Bulge
The Battle of the Bulge was the last major German offensive campaign on the Western Front during World War II. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
The Battle of Iwo Jima was a battle, in which the United States Marine Corps landed on and eventually captured from the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II -
VE Day
VE Day was the official end of the fighting in Europe in the Second World War. -
Dropping of the atomic bombs
On August 6, 1945, the American bomber Enola Gay dropped a five-ton bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. -
Vj day
Vj day was when Japan had surrendered unconditionally to the Allies, effectively ending World War II. -
Liberation of concentration camps
The camps were liberated by the Allied forces. The first major camp, was discovered by the advancing Soviets on July 23, 1944.
