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Germany Invades Poland
German forces bombard Poland on land and from the air, as Adolf Hitler seeks to regain lost territory and ultimately rule Poland -
Germans Occupy Paris
The Nazi occupation was a terrible time for Paris, not just because the Nazis were there but because Paris itself was complicit in its own humiliation. -
Battle of Britain
German and British air forces clashed in the skies over the United Kingdom, and locked in the largest sustained bombing campaign to that date. -
D-Day
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. -
Liberation of Nazi Concentration Camps
Soviet soldiers were the first to liberate concentration camp prisoners in the final stages of the war. -
Battle of the Bulge
The Germans launched the last major offensive of the war, attempting to push the Allied front line west from northern France to northwestern Belgium. -
V-E 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. -
Potsdam Conference
The leaders arrived at various agreements on the German economy, punishment for war criminals, land boundaries and reparations. -
Battle of Dresden
The Battle of Dresden was a major engagement of the Napoleonic Wars. The battle took place around the city of Dresden in modern-day Germany.
