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The Invasion of Poland
a joint attack on the Republic of Poland by Nazi Germany, the Slovak Republic, and the Soviet Union -
Great Britain and France declare war on Nazi germany
Honoring their guarantee of Poland's borders -
the Invasion of Belgium Luxembourg Netherlands and france
The goal of the Germans was to conquer France. -
The battle & Great escape at dunkirk
the evacuation from Dunkirk, involved the rescue of more than 338,000 British and French soldiers from the French port of Dunkirk between 26 May and 4 June 1940. The evacuation, sometimes referred to as the Miracle of Dunkirk, was a big boost for British moral -
The Battle of Britain
It was one of Britain's most important victories of the Second World War because it showed Germany could be defeated, it allowed Britain to carry on fighting the war, and ultimately ensured the Allies had a base from which to launch the liberation of Europe on D-Day in June 1944. -
Selective service & training act
required all men between the ages of 21 and 45 to register for the draft. -
Lend-lease assistance act
set up a system that would allow the United States to lend or lease war supplies to any nation deemed "vital to the defense of the United States." -
The attack on pearl harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Empire of Japan on the United States Pacific Fleet at its naval base at Pearl Harbor -
America enters world war 2
America's isolation from war ended on December 7, 1941, when Japan staged a surprise attack on American military installations in the Pacific. The most devastating strike came at Pearl Harbor, the Hawaiian naval base where much of the US Pacific Fleet was moored. -
Germany and Italy declare war on the United states
The declaration followed the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor -
The battle of the coral sea
The battle ended the proposed Japanese sea-borne invasion of Port Moresby -
The battle of Midway island
the U.S. Navy intercepted a Japanese invasion fleet heading for Midway Island, achieving an overwhelming victory and resulting in the turning point of the war in the Pacific. -
The Invasion of north africa
The Allied victory in North Africa destroyed or neutralized nearly 900,000 German and Italian troops, opened a second front against the Axis, permitted the invasion of Sicily and the Italian mainland in the summer of 1943, and removed the Axis threat to the oilfields of the Middle East and to British supply lines -
The invasion of Sicily & italy
the invasion of the Italian island of Sicily by Allied forces. The conquest of Sicily took a little more than a month and it led directly to the fall of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini and the surrender of the Italian government to the Allies. -
The D-Day invasion of france
the Allies launched the long-anticipated invasion of Normandy, France. Soldiers from the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, and other Allied nations faced Hitler's formidable Atlantic Wall as they landed on the beaches of Normandy. -
Nazi concentration camps discoverd
Images of what the Allies found when they liberated the first Nazi death camps towards the end of World War II brought the horror of the Holocaust to world -
The battle of the bulge
German forces launched a surprise attack on Allied forces in the forested Ardennes region in Belgium, Luxembourg, and France. -
The Yalta conference
Roosevelt and Churchill discussed with Stalin the conditions under which the Soviet Union would enter the war against Japan -
v-e victory in Europe day
After the many deaths during the war in Europe, V-E Day was cause for worldwide celebration -
The atomic bomb on hiroshima
On 6 and 9 August 1945, the United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, respectively. The bombings killed between 150,000 and 246,000 people, most of whom were civilians, and they remain the only use of nuclear weapons in an armed conflict. -
The atomic bomb on nagaski
On 6 and 9 August 1945, the United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, respectively. The bombings killed between 150,000 and 246,000 people, -
v-j victory over Japan day
The next day, August 15th, 1945, was proclaimed Victory over Japan (VJ) Day, although the signing of the official instrument of surrender was not to occur until September 2nd, 1945, aboard the USS Missouri, in Tokyo Bay. There, representatives of nine Allied nations were present to accept the Japanese surrender.