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Polish Invasions
On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. The Polish army was defeated within weeks of the invasion. German units, with more than 2,000 tanks and over 1,000 planes, broke into Poland along the border and advanced on Warsaw in a big attack. After heavy s bombing, they surrendered to the Germans on September 27, 1939. -
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World War Two
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Us gives Britain supplies
The United States supplied Free France, the United Kingdom, the Republic of China, and later the USSR and other Allied nations with food, oil, and materiel between 1941 and August 1945. This included warships and warplanes, along with other weaponry. It was signed into law on March 11, 1941 and ended in September 1945. -
Battle of France
German forces defeated Allied forces in a series of gruesome attacks that lead to the conquest of France, This Battle consisted of two main operations. In Fall Gelb (Case Yellow), German armoured units pushed through the Ardennes and then along the Somme valley to cut off and surround the Allied units. The German forces launched a second operation, Fall Rot (Case Red) on 5 June 1940. While the depleted French forces put up stiff initial resistance, German air superiority and armoured mobility o -
Bombing and Battle of Britain
Battle of Britain Video
This battle started with Germany bombing Great Britain. Thre were a lot of counter attacks from both sides and eventually The Battle of Britain had officially started. -
Bombing of Pearl Harbor
Bombing of Pearl Harbor
President Franklin Roosevelt said "a date which will live in infamy." He said this about the bombing of Pearl Harbor. On that day, Japanese planes attacked the United States Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The bombing killed more than 2,300 Americans. -
Germant declares war on the US
German Declaration of war
On this day Adolf Hitler declares war on the United States, bringing America, which had been neutral, into the European conflict. Only days after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and the United States declaration of war against the Japanese, Germany declared war against the United States. The declaration was made by Adolf Hitler since in advance he had made a pact with Germant to enter war with US beforehand. -
Battle of Midway
Battle of Midway
The United States defeated Japan in one of the most conclusive battles in World War II. Thanks to advances in code breaking, the US was able to forestall and counter Japan’s planned attack of its small amount of remaining aircrafts, which in turn inflicted permanent damage on the Japanese Navy. -
Germans invade The Soviet Union
Operation Barbosa
Operation Barbarossa, Germany invaded the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, in the largest German military battle of World War II. Adolf Hitler sent his army eastward in a ginourmous invasion of the Soviet Union, three army groups with over three million German soldiers, and 3,000 tanks smashed across the frontier into the Soviet area. The invasion was one of the most significant "operations" ever. -
D-Day
D-Day
On this day more than 160,000 Allied troops landed along a stretch of heavily guarded French beach, to fight Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France. More than 5,000 Ships and 13,000 aircraft had a part in the D-Day attack, and by day’s end, the Allies gained a foot-hold in Continental Europe. The cost in lives on D-Day was very high. -
Battle of the Bulge
This was the last big German offensive during World War II; an unsuccessful attempt to push the Allies back from German territory. The “bulge” refers to the wedge that the Germans drove into the Allied lines. It was the largest battle ever fought by the United States Army. It involved over 600,000 American troops. The Allied forces were moving towards Germany, pushing the Germans back more towns and hoping the war to be almos won. The battle was Germny’s last attempt to stop the oposing sides. -
Batlle of Iwo Jima
Iwo Jim Video
The Battle of Iwo Jima was a major battle in which the U.S. landed on and captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese Army. It was defended the Japanese army and navy troops, who fought from a network of caves, dugouts, tunnels and underground pathways and bideouts. Despite the difficulty of the conditions, the marines wiped out the defending forces after a month of fighting. -
End of WW2
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