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Invasion of Poland
The beginning of WW2, Poland was invaded on September 1/ 1939, this was caused because of Hittler and, this was called the “Blitzkrieg” strategy, first they destroyed Poland's air capacity, railroads, communication lines and munitions dumps and then they invaded Poland with nomeous troops and tanks and articelly. -
Battle of the River Plate
It was the first naval battle in WW2, occasioned in the River Plate, which is a river between Uruguay and Argentina. This battle was against United Kingdom, Nazi Germany and New Zealand. The British won this battle. -
Operation Bolivar Begins
The “Operation Bolivar” was an espionage made by the Germans in Latin America so they could get information about does countrie, this was successful since the Germans established one espionage radio in Argentina and the courier system that is involved with the use of Spanish merchant vessels for the shipment of paper-form intelligence. -
Battle of Britain
The Battle of Britain was a battle betwen the Nazi Germany’s air force “The Luftwaffe” and the Royal Air force and the Fleet Air Arm of the Royal Army, they fought over Britain because Germany was traing to invade Britain. -
Germany invades USSR opening eastern front
Hitler had prepared a surprise attack to the Soviet Union, he sent 3 giant army groups, that had 150 division soldiers and 3 million German soldiers, this is considered one of the largest military confrontations in history, this lead to a lot of murders of jews, prisoners and Soviet civilians. -
Pearl Harbor bombing.
In 1941, Japan attacked the U.S naval base near Honolulu, Hawaii called Pearl Harbor, where over 2,400 american people died and other thousand people went missing. This attack is one of the worst in American history, 300 airplanes, 8 battleships, and lots of weapons were destroyed. Because of this incident, president Franklin D. Roosevelt declared war on Japan, and that is how then got involved in WW2. -
Bataan death march and Japan takes Phillipines
The Bataan death march was a march organized by the japanese government, they captured 76,000 soldiers of the USA and from the Philippines too, and made them march about 65-80 miles thru the Bataan Peninsula, this day they captured Manila (the capital of the philippines), so the ones that were protecting the Manila were forced to do this march -
Battle of Stalingrad
It started in August 1942, in the city of Stalingrad, Russia ( now known as Volvograd ) between russian forces and Axis powers, and its known for being one of the deadliest battles in history, with about 2 million deaths and injuries. It ended in February 1943. -
The North African campaign, allies drive germans out of North Africa
Between 1940 and 1943, there were a series of battles between the Axis and the Allies powers, who wanted territory from North Africa. These battles were fought in Libya, Egypt, Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia -
D-Day
The Normandy landings, most known as the D-Day, was when 156,000 Canadian, American and British forces arrived in the beaches of the Normandy region in France in 1944. Its the largest seaborne invasion in all history. -
The Panama Canal strike
In May 1945, Japanese captain Chikao Yamamoto and commander Yasuo Fujimori made a secret submarine attack to destroy the locks of the Panama Canal, so that the US couldn't supply goods through water from the Caribbean to the Pacific Ocean. -
Lüning Affair
The military of Cuba in WW2 was considered one of the most efficient and co-operative Caribbean nations, Cuba was one of the firsts countries to enter the WW2 after it declared war to the Axis Powers, also Cuba was really benefited because of its location at the entrance of the Gulf of Mexico and also it was really important in the America Theater of WW2. It began in 1939 and it ended in 1945. -
Victory in Europe Day
The victory In Europe day was the day the war ended in Europe, after 5 years of pain and mistreatments the war finally came to an end. -
Atomic bomb dropped.
During WW2, United States used atomic weapons against Japan, destroying the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and killing about 140000 people in Hiroshima and 80000 in Nagasaki. After this incident, Japan surrendered from WW2 and the war ended for good.
