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Germany invades Poland
Just before dawn today, German tanks, infantry and cavalry penetrated Polish territory on several fronts with five armies, a total of 1.5 million troops. Britain and France have mobilized their forces and are preparing to wage war on Germany for the second time this century. -
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Battle of Britain
British victory in Battle of Britain forces Hitler to postpone invasion plans. The Battle of Britain was the first major campaign to be fought entirely by air forces -
Operation Barborossa
Over 4.5 million troops of the Axis powers invaded the USSR -
Pearl Harbor
The attack was intended as a preventive reaction in order to keep the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki U.S. Pacific Fleet from interfering with military actions the Empire of Japan was planning in Southeast Asia against over seas territories of the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and the United States. The base was attacked by 353 Japanese fighters, bombers and torpedo planes in two waves -
Battle of Midway
Following the attack on Peal Harbor, Japanese armies rolled over Southeast Asia, the Philippines, and the East Indies. The war in the Pacific was fought on land, at sea, and in the air. The turning point in the war in the Pacific came in June, 1942 at the Battle of Midway. In a four day battle fought between aircraft based on giant aircraft carriers, the -
The Battle of Okinawa
<a href='http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/battle_of_okinawa.htm' >LINK</aAmerica had gathered together 300 warships and 1,139 other ships. On July 2nd, the Americans declared Okinawa secure – Ushijima had committed suicide some days before this. They met little opposition and by the end of the day 60,000 American military personnel had landed at Hagushi Bay. By April 20th, all Japanese resistance in the north of the island had been eradicated except for some guerrilla activity. Okinawa is the largest of the Ryukyus islands at the southern tip of Japan. Okinawa is abo -
Hitler Commits Suicide
The first Soviet artillery shells had started falling on Berlin the previous evening.[29] At the afternoon situation conference in the bunker on 22 April, Hitler suffered a total nervous collapse when he was informed that the instructions he had issued the previous day for SS-General Felix Steiner's Army Detachment Steiner to move to the rescue of Berlin had not materialised.[30] Hitler openly declared for the first time the war was lost and blamed the generals. Hitler announced he would stay in -
Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
During the final stages of World War II in 1945, the United States conducted two atomic bombings against the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan, the first on August 6, 1945 and the second on August 9, 1945. These two events are the only active deployments of nuclear weapons in war to date.
