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invasion of poland
The Invasion of Poland, known in Poland as the September Campaign or the 1939 Defensive War and in Germany as the Poland Campaign, was an invasion of Poland by Germany that marked the beginning of World War II. -
German offensive to the east
The East Prussian Offensive was a strategic offensive by the Soviet Red Army against the German Wehrmacht on the Eastern Front (World War II). ... The East Prussian Offensive is known to German historians as the Second East Prussian Offensive. -
Invasion of the USSR
Operation Barbarossa (German: Unternehmen Barbarossa) was the code name for the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union, which started on Sunday, 22 June 1941, during World War II. -
Japanese Attack ON PEARL HARBOR
Pearl Harbor attack, (December 7, 1941), surprise aerial attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor on Oahu Island, Hawaii, by the Japanese that precipitated the entry of the United States into World War II. -
American victory at Midway
The Battle of Midway was a decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II that took place between 4 and 7 June 1942, only six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea. ... Four Japanese and three American aircraft carriers participated in the battle -
Allied landings in North Africa and Battle of Stalingrad
By the spring of 1942, despite the failure of Operation Barbarossa to decisively defeat the Soviet Union in a single campaign, the Wehrmacht had captured vast expanses of territory, including Ukraine, Belarus, and the Baltic republics. Elsewhere, the war had been progressing well: the U-boat offensive in the Atlantic had been very successful and Erwin Rommel had just captured Tobruk.[23]:522 In the east, they had stabilized their front in a line running from Leningrad in the north to Rostov -
Italy surrenders
Italy Surrenders to the Allies. A September 8, 1943, war report from Allied Force Headquarters outlines Italy's unconditional surrender, known as a "volte-face," announced earlier that day by Gen. Dwight Eisenhower. -
Allied landigs in Normandy
The Normandy landings were the landing operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. Codenamed Operation Neptune and often referred to as D-Day, it was the largest seaborne invasion in history. -
Germany surrenders
On May 7, 1945, Germany officially surrendered to the Allies, bringing 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. -
Atominc bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
On August 6, 1945, during World War II (1939-45) an American B-29 bomber dropped the world's first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima -
Japan surrenders
