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Invasion of Poland
The German invasion of Poland was a military action by Nazi Germany aimed at annexing Polish territory. The technical operation, known as the "White Case," began on September 1, 1939, and the last units of the Polish army surrendered on October 6 of that year. -
Germany attacks France
The Battle of France - also known as the Fall of France - was the invasion by Germany into France and the Netherlands, in the framework of the Second World War. France had declared war on Germany on September 3, 1939, after the latter invaded Poland. -
Battle of Britain begins
The Battle of Britain begins. On this day in 1940, the Germans begin the first in a long series of bombing raids against Great Britain, as the Battle of Britain, which will last three and a half months, begins. -
Hitler sends the Afrika Korps to North Africa
German General Erwin Rommel arrives in Tripoli, Libya, with the newly formed Afrika Korps, to reinforce the beleaguered Italians' position. In January 1941, Adolf Hitler established the Afrika Korps for the explicit purpose of helping his Italian Axis partner maintain territorial gains in North Africa. -
Operation Barbarossa begins
Operation Barbarossa, launched on June 22, 1941, was the code name given by Adolf Hitler to the plan of invasion of the Soviet Union by the Axis Forces during World War II -
Attack on Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military offensive carried out by the Japanese Imperial Navy against the United States Naval Base at Pearl Harbor on the morning of Sunday, December 7, 1941. -
US and British troops land on the beaches of Algeria and Morocco
Franklin Roosevelt's decision to commit U.S. troops to the seizure of French North Africa proved to be one of the most important of the war. It reflected the actual realities of the strategic situation in fall 1942. ... North Africa was sufficiently far from Germany that it minimized the potential of Nazi military power. -
Allied troops land on the beaches of Salerno
Operation Avalanche was the codename for the Allied landings near the port of Salerno, executed on 9 September 1943, part of the Allied invasion of Italy. The Italians withdrew from the war the day before the invasion, but the Allies landed in an area defended by German troops. -
D-Day
The Normandy landings were the landing operations and associated airborne operations on Tuesday, June 6, 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. -
Paris liberated by the allies
La liberación de París durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial consistió en la entrada de los Aliados en la capital francesa en agosto de 1944 -
Hitler commits suicide
The death of Adolf Hitler, leader of the German National Socialist Workers Party (1921-1945) and Führer and Reichskanzler of the Third Reich (1933-1945), occurred on April 30, 1945 in the Führerbunker in Berlin; Hitler committed suicide by shooting himself in the head with a gun -
Dropping of first atom bomb on Hiroshima
The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were nuclear attacks ordered by Harry S. Truman, President of the United States, against the Empire of Japan. -
Japan formally surrenders
The surrender of Japan in World War II occurred on August 15, 1945 and was signed on September 2, 1945. The Empire of Japan accepted the Potsdam Declaration signed by the United States, the United Kingdom, the Republic of China and the Union Soviet.
