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Invasion of Poland
Marking the beginning of World War II, the German invasion began a week after Germany and the Soviet Union signed the "Molotov-Ribbentrop Agreement", the Soviet Union invaded Poland. The battle ended with Germany and the Soviet Union dividing and annexing Poland under the terms of the German-Soviet border treaty. -
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Germany attacks France
The Battle of France (also known as the Fall of France) is the German invasion of France and the Netherlands in the framework of World War II. After Germany invaded Poland, France declared war on Germany on September 3, 1939. -
Battle of Britain begins
The Battle of Britain in WW2 was fought between the RAF and Luftwaffe. This is the first airborne battle. From July 10 to October 31, 1940, pilots and support personnel from both sides flew skyward and fought to control the airspace of Great Britain, Germany, and the English Channel. The German Air Force wanted to conquer Great Britain, but the RAF that it was a powerful enemy. -
Hitler sends the Afrika Korps to North Africa
Adolf Hitler founded Afrika Korps with the clear objective of helping his partner of the Italian axis to maintain the interests of the territory of North Africa. In three months, they deported Italians from Egypt, killed or killed 20,000 Italian soldiers, and captured 130,000 prisoners. -
Operation Barbarossa begin
It was the code name for the invasion of the Powers of the Soviet Axis that began during World War II. This operation put into practice the ideological objectives of Nazi Germany to conquer the Western Soviet Union and make it German. The failure of the Barbarossa operation reversed the fate of the Third Reich. -
Attack on Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a military assault on the Pearl Imperial Naval Base in Honolulu by the Japanese Imperial Air Force against the United States. It was a preemptive military attack. On December 7, 1941, Sunday, in Hawaiian territory before 08:00. The attack led the United States to officially join World War II the following day. -
US and British troops land on the beaches of Algeria and Morocco
American and British troops launched amphibious operations against French North Africa, especially France-controlled Algeria and Morocco. That landing battle was called the "torch," and it was enormous in other British and American war strategies. -
Allied troops land on the beaches of Salerno
Operation Avalanche on September 9, 1943 was the code name for the Allied forces that landed near the port of Salerno, which was part of the Allied invasion of Italy. The day before the invasion, the Italians withdrew from the war, but the allies landed in an area protected by the German army. -
D-day
The Normandy landing was a landing operation and related airborne operations in "Operation Overlord" of the Allied invasion of Normandy during World War II on June 6, 1944. The code-named operation "Neptune", commonly known as D-day, is the largest maritime invasion in history -
Paris liberated by the Allied
When US troops entered Paris and participated in the Allied battle to remove the city from German control, the street battle was heard live. After several days of fighting, Germany handed Paris over to the Allies, ending four years of occupation. Paris no longer has military value, only its escaped German remains can cross the bridge over the Seine. -
Hitler commits suicide
On April 30, 1945, Adolf Hitler,an Austrian-German politician who was the leader of the Nazi Party, was killed in a bunker at the Berlin headquarters, swallowed cyanide capsules, and shot himself. Soon after, Germany surrendered to the Allies unconditionally, ending Hitler's dream of establishing a "millennial" empire. -
Dropping of first atom bomb on Hiroshima
On August 6, 1945, during World War II (1939-45), an American B-29 bomber dropped the world's first deployed atomic bomb in Hiroshima, Japan. The blast destroyed 90% of the city's population and immediately killed 80,000 people. In the future, thousands of people will die from radiation. -
Japan formally surrenders
Representatives of the Japanese government and allied forces met in Missouri at Tokyo Bay and signed the "Japanese surrender", effectively ending World War II. The document was prepared by the United States Department of War and approved by President Harry Truman.
