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German Invasion of Poland
History.com 1.5 million Nazi soldiers invaded Poland on Sept. 1, 1939. The Nazi soldier bombed Poland's airfields and used U-boats to attack in the Baltic Sea. Adolf Hitler the Nazi leader had claimed that the attack was defensive but Britain and France did not believe that. From, that state of situation on Sept. 3, 1939 Britain and France declared war on Germany. The invasion of Poland started the World War II. -
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Battle of Britain
History.com Germany went and attacked Britain, starting from the English Channel. German Soldiers had ME109s mean while Britain had spitfires. During a three and a half months Britain government told their citizens to save aluminum and stiff upper lip to make spitfires and hurricanes for the British soliders. -
Operation Barbarossa - Russia
History.com Germany had signed a pact with Russia in 1939 but than broke the pact on June 22, 1941. The Soviet Union invaded Romania from that Hitler thought it was the threats to the Balkans to the oil supply. Than Germany aposed a countertreat to Russia. The "Directive No. 21: Case Barbarossa" was in December of 1940. This Germany planned to invade and occupy Russia. -
Battle of Moscow, Russia
<ahref='http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/battle_for_moscow.htm' >History Learning site</a> The Germans called Battle of Moscow the "Operation Typhoon. This battle started on October, 2 1941. Hitler wanted to capture Moscow; he believed that without Moscow, Russia would collapse. In the beginning Germany wanted to take Moscow but at the end they did not take the country. -
Battle of Stalingrad, Russia
History.com The Battle of Stalingrad was a successful defense that the Soviet made. The Battle of Stalingrad was the bloodiest of the history. Russians were so happy about this war because they beat the Germans. -
Battle of Kursk, Russia
battleofkursk.org In the Battle of Kursk, German soldiers went on both sides of the salient. The German soliders failed an attempt to attack from the North of Russia. But when the German soliders went to the South they seemed to have success but still failed to gain freedom. -
D-Day, France
History.com The operation overload known as "D-Day". This War had the largest water assaults in history. This War was often called the beginning of the end of the war. Part of the reason the War was so successful was due to confusion of German officals. German was removed from Northwestern, France and a week later Hitler had killed him self. -
Battle of the Bulge - Lux/Belgium
In the Battle of the Bulge this war contains many German counter offensives. All of Hitlers counterfeits this will be his last counter offensive move. The Prime Minister Winston Churchill quoted that this was the greatest war of American Military History. -
Battle of Berlin
militaryhistory.about.com The battle of Berlin was the last war of WWII with Germany.
The War started with an attack on Berlin by the Soviet forces.The Soviet forces had the support of America but did not need it. This War was on the records of being one of the deadliest wars in human history. Germany had surrender and Hitler killed himself. -
Hiroshima/Nagasaki - Japan
History.com An American bomber called B-29 dropped a atomic bomb over the city of Hiroshima in Japan. From this bomb it killed 80,000 people and about 90 percent of the city. Three days after the first bombing another B-29 bomber dropped a bomb in Nagaski, Japan, that killed close to 40,000 people. The emperor of Japan Hirohito announced that his country will surrender in World War II.
