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Invasion Of Poland
Germany invaded Poland. To justify the action, Nazi propagandists falsely claimed that Poland had been planning, with its allies Great Britain and France, to encircle Germany. -
Battle Of Dunkirk
The Allies were losing the Battle of France on the Western Front, the Battle of Dunkirk was the defence and evacuation of Britain. -
The Battle Of Britain
In the Battle of Britain, Germany bombed Great Britain in order to try and destroy their air force and prepare for invasion. -
The Blitz
he heavy and frequent bombing attacks on London and other cities was known as the 'Blitz'. German bombers attacked British cities, ports and industrial areas for 8 months. Sept 1940- May 1941. -
Operation Barbarossa: the German invasion of Russia
Operation Barbarossa. Adolf Hitler launched his armies eastward in a massive invasion of the Soviet Union: three great army groups with over three million German soldiers, 150 divisions, and three thousand tanks smashed across the frontier into Soviet territory. -
Pearl Harbor
183 aircraft of the Imperial Japanese Navy attacked the United States Naval base at Pearl Harbour, Hawaii. Their intention was to destroy and damage as much of the US Pacific Fleet as possible before it could respond to Japanese operations taking place on the same day against British, Dutch and US territories in southeast Asia. -
Midway
The United States Navy defeated a Japanese attack against Midway Atoll, marking a turning point in the war in the Pacific War. -
D-Day: Operation Overlord
The Allied Forces of Britain, America, Canada, and France attacked German forces on the coast of Normandy, France. With a huge force of over 150,000 soldiers, the Allies attacked and gained a victory that became the turning point for World War II in Europe. -
Gemany Surrenders
Nazi Germany surrenders, May 7, 1945. On this day in 1945, Gen. Alfred Jodl, representing the German High Command, signed a document unconditionally surrendering all German military forces, to take effect the following day, thereby all but ending World War II in Europe -
Bombing Of Nagasaki And Hiroshima
American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion wiped out 90 percent of the city and immediately killed 80,000 people; tens of thousands more would later die of radiation exposure. Three days later, a second B-29 dropped another A-bomb on Nagasaki, killing an estimated 40,000 people.