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Germany Invade Poland
After Hitler have regained lost territories and rule Poland. The World War II had begun. -
Declarate War on Germany
Britain and France were the first two countries which creates the Allies, represent the nation to declare war on Germany. -
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Evacuation of Dunkirk
This event happens while the German army arrived in the North Sea and separated Britain troops with it's Allie France. The evacuation of Dunkirk is a mission to get out of this situation to get rid of this situation. By June 4, when the surrender was accepted, more than 338,000 soldiers were saved. After the successful evacuation, this mission became known as “Miracle of Dunkirk.” -
Churchill becomes Prime Minister of Britain
Churchill has brilliant military leadership ability. Lots of people believe that Churchill is the one who led Britain to the victory in WWII. -
Italy enter the war in the Axis Power side
On May 22, 1939, Germany and Italy signed the so-called Pact of Steel, formalizing the Axis alliance with military provisions. Finally, on September 27, 1940, Germany, Italy, and Japan signed the Tripartite Pact, which became known as the Axis alliance. -
The Armistice between German and France
This Armistice works after midnight on 25 June. Marshal Henri Petain represcent the prime minister and decided to sign an armistice with Germany. -
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Operation Sealion
The operation sea lion is a code name for a plan that Hitler set by himself to invade Britain. This plan was supposed to have the confidence to take Britain by using the air power and several other powers, but because of several reasons, they only have the air power that is running normally. The result of this failure, Germany lost loads of air powers. This lost contributed to the final victory of -
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Battle of Britain
This battle is basically Germany using the air forces to boom the Britain with his numbers of Planes and boom. -
Tripartite Pact signed
The Tripartite Pact was signed by Germany, Italy, and Japan in Burlin. The main purpose of this Alliance is to defend the US to join in the conflict. -
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Siege of Tobruk
Operation Sonnenblume forced the Allies into a retreat to the Egyptian border. Germany, Italy, United Kingdom and Australia was evolved in the war. It's during the Western Desert Campaign of the Second World War. -
Operation Barbarossa
Operation Barbarossa is the codename for the invasion of the USSR. The campaign was to lay the foundations for the conflict that was going to happened between the two Anglo-Saxon powers and to free Germany from the economic warfare that the Allies were against. The German invasion marked the beginning of a rapacious war of conquest. -
Bombing of Pearl Harbour
The bombs rained down on Pearl Harbour just after 6 am. The assault damage and destroyed more than a dozen of U.S ships, While more than 300 aircraft suffered damage. The first signs of the attack was when the U.S spotted a Japanese submarine, but it wasn’t until the U.S found incoming Japanese fighters. The U.S quickly decoded some Japanese code and this is when they found out about the intent of the Japanese. -
Britain and US declare war on Japan
This declaration of war happened one day after the attack on Pearl Harbour. The rescript that Japan made when declaring war states that the war was “truly unavoidable”. Japan at this time was allied with Germany and Italy and Japan was faced with a war against Russia. Britain and the U.S didn’t like the fact that Japan easily bombed Pearl Harbour and they knew that they would have to declare war on Japan. -
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Battle of Stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad is an extremely significant cause of Allies' victory because it symbolizes the end of Germany's advances into eastern Europe and Russia. One of the leaders in the Soviet army, Georgi Zhukov, said that Germany had underestimated the Soviets. Also, the morale of the German army was lowered and the German army was weakened by the huge amount of resources they used on this Battle did not help them to win. -
Japan takes Singapore
After Japan has occupied Singapore, it was renamed Syonan-Winston Churchill called the fall of Singapore "the worst disaster and largest capitulation in British history" -
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First Battle of El Alamein
The First Battle of El Alamein is a battle fought in Egypt between Axis power and the Allies of the Eighth Army. The battle happened in the Western Desert. Several countries are evolved in it, which include the British Empire, India, Australia and New Zealand. In the Axis power have Germany and Italy. -
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Battle of Midway
The fought almost entirely with airforces. When the United States destroyed Japan’s first-line carrier strength and most of its best trained naval pilots. Together with the Battle of Guadalcanal, the Battle of Midway ended the threat of further Japanese invasion in the Pacific. -
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Second Battle of El Alamein
The battle of EI is on the climax of the conflict between the British Empire and the German-Italian army in the North African campaign. By May 1943 the campaign was over and the Mediterranean dominated by the Allies. However, Russia the Germans were suffering disaster at Stalingrad. The two battles: Stalingrad and El Alamein is a prove to be the watershed of the war against Germany. -
D-day Landing
The D-Day Landings were the most vital part to liberate Europe from years of German military occupation via the biggest seaborne invasion in the world history. Before the Operation starts, due to the bad weather, it was delayed by a day. However the supreme commander of the Allie gave this operation the codename of Neptune. This battle started with 15000 soldiers crossing the English chin and landing in five beaches from different directions to surround the German. -
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Battle of the Bulge
The Battle of the Bulge is the last major German attack on the Western Front, it is also known as the bloodiest battle in WW2.
A crucial German supplies shortage, the German soldier was desperate, in the poorly roaded, rugged, heavily forested Ardennes. The Battle of the Bulge was the costliest action ever fought by the U.S. Army, which suffered over 100,000 casualties. -
Mussolini captured and executed
Mussolini: the dictator in Italy was found in the final days of World War II in Europe, he was shot the following afternoon, two days before Adolf Hitler's suicide. -
Hitler commits suicide
Adolf Hitler commits suicide by swallowing a cyanide capsule and shooting himself in the head with his wife. They were both found in the base room in his Führerbunker in Berlin.. -
German forces surrender
This brings an end to the European conflict in World War II. General Alfred Jodl, representing the German High Command, signed the unconditional surrender of both east and west forces in Reims, France, which would take effect the following day. -
V.E. day
The V.E day is also known as the "Victory in Europe" day. Evey year in this time, people would celebrate that the war has ended. -
Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima
This act from America can be seen as a revenge toward what Japan did to them in the Pearl Harbor. -
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Soviet Union declared war on Japan
This war is also known as the Soviet-Japanese war. This war has basically involved most of the war in Eastern front (Asia), it's betweeen Japan and USSR(Soviet Union). -
Japanese surrender – End of WWII
The surrender of Imperial Japan was announced on August 15 and formally signed on September 2, 1945. Together with the British Empire and China, the United States called for the unconditional surrender of the Japanese armed forces in the Potsdam Declaration on July 26, 1945—the alternative being "prompt and utter destruction". Japan chose to Unconditional Surrender which brings WW2 to a end. -
Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki
Just three days after the bomb in Hiroshima, the United State droped a second atomic bomb in Nagasaki. -
United Nations
The United Nations was born of perceived necessity, as a means of better arbitrating international conflict and negotiating peace. The growing Second World War became the real impetus for the United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union to begin formulating the original U.N. Declaration, signed by 26 nations in January 1942 as a formal act to position the Axis central power "members".
