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britain and france declare war
Britain and France declare war on Germany. The outbreak of war led to large-scale evacuation of women and children from London and other large cities. Other emergency measures were also declared. For months there were no air raids during the period now known as the "phoney war" and many evacuees returned home. -
Invasion of Poland
The Invasion of Poland, known in Poland as the September Campaign or the 1939 Defensive War, and in Germany as the Poland Campaign or Fall Weiss, was a joint invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany, -
Miracle at Dunkirk
After being deployed to France they were caught up in the evacuation of Dunkirk, where they lost contact with each other, after being ordered to drain the oil from their trucks, drive them into the ditch at the side of the road and leave the engines running so they would seize up.he British Expeditionary Forces were trapped at Dunkirk in France by the German army. Wikipedia’s summary of the circumstances: -
battle of britain
The Battle of Britain was a military campaign of the Second World War, in which the Royal Air Force defended the United Kingdom against large-scale attacks by the German Air Force. -
Hitler invades France
The German plan for the invasion consisted of two main operations.pushed through the Ardennes and then along the Somme valley, cutting off and surrounding the Allied units that had advanced into Belgium, to meet the expected German invasion. When British, Belgian and French forces were pushed back to the sea by the mobile and well-organised German operation, the British evacuated the -
Hitler invades France
Adolf Hitler, a man who swept the Germans up to incredible victories, was also the main reason Germany ultimately lost the war. He refused to accept reality, took no advice from his Generals and then made poor decisions. ... Here follow ten other reasons why he lost the war. -
USA enter the war
the United States did not enter the war until after the Japanese bombed the American fleet in Pearl Harbor, HawaiAlthough the war began with Nazi Germany's attack on Poland -
Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory, on the morning of December 7, 1941. The attack, also known as the Battle of Pearl Harbor, led to the United States' entry into World War II. The Japanese ... -
Battle of Stalingrad
was a major confrontation of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) in Southern Russia. Marked by fierce close quarters combat and direct assaults on civilians in air raids, it is ... -
Battle of midway
Meanwhile, the Japanese aircraft that had flown the first strike on Midway, low on fuel, some damaged and with wounded aboard, would soon need to land and be struck below to the hangar decks to be refueled and rearmed. But two of those cruiser scouts, from Tone, would be launched late, and it would be one of them that would discover part of the American fleet. -
Raid on dieppe
The Dieppe Raid, also known as the Battle of Dieppe, Operation Rutter during planning stages, and by its final official code-name Operation Jubilee, was an Allied attack on the German-occupied port of Dieppe during the Second World War. -
D Day
peration Overlord was the codename for the Battle of Normandy, the Allied operation that launched the successful invasion of German-occupied Western Europe during World War II. The operation was launched with the Normandy Landings. -
End of world war ii in europe
The final battles of the European Theatre of World War II as well as the German surrender to the Allies took place in late April and early Germany's surrender, about a week after Adolf Hitler had committed suicide. VE Day – Victory in Europe celebrates . -
A-bombs dropped on Nagasaki
The second mighty atomic bomb to rock Japan fell on the teeming war city of Nagasaki at noon today and first reports indicated that the attack was as successful as the explosion that devastated Hiroshima.
Hiroshima and killed almost every living thing within its range. -
End of world war ii
ended with the unconditional surrender of the Axis powers. the Allies accepted Germany's surrender, about a week after Adolf Hitler had committed suicide. VE Day – Victory in Europe celebrates the end of the Second World War. -
A-bombs dropped on Hiroshima
continuing the conventional bombing of Japan already in effect and following up with a massive invasion, codenamed “Operation Downfall.” They advised Truman that such an invasion would result in U.S. casualties of up to 1 million. In order to avoid such a high casualty rate, Truman decided–over the moral reservations of Secretary of War Henry Stimson, General Dwight Eisenhower and a
