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Air warfare in China
Japan launched a full-scale war in China in 1937 and soon controlled the major cities and the seacoast. The U.S. sent help through Burma, and after 1942 flew in supplies over the "The Hump" (the Himalaya Mountains) from India.
In 1940–41, well before Pearl Harbor, the United States decided on an aggressive air campaign against Japan using Chinese bases and American pilots wearing Chinese uniforms.[41] The United States created, funded, and provided crews and equipment for the "Flying Tigers", a -
Invasion of Poland
After the shelling by the Germans burn combustion Royal Castle in Warsaw
Main article: Polish Campaign
September 1, 1939 morning, Hitler decided to invade Poland , in order to rationalize the invasion , Hitler orders the soldiers posing as Polish soldiers "invasion" of Germany, Pod War officially broke out. Germans use the cover of darkness , the Polish blitzkrieg raid . September 3 , Britain and France declared war on Germany , but in Poland the war has not been British and French military supp -
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Battle of the Atlantic
The Battle of the Atlantic was the longest continuous military campaign[4][5] in World War II, running from 1939 to the defeat of Germany in 1945. At its core was the Allied naval blockade of Germany, announced the day after the declaration of war, and Germany's subsequent counter-blockade. It was at its height from mid-1940 through to the end of 1943. The Battle of the Atlantic pitted U-boats and other warships of the Kriegsmarine (German navy) and aircraft of the Luftwaffe (German Air Force) a -
North invaded the Soviet Union
Finnish defenders war when Russia and Finland
After World War II broke out. Stalin believed Germany attacked the Soviet Union sooner or later , they began to establish preventive German eastern front , this front has been extended from the Baltic to the Black Sea , and attempted to strengthen the defense of Germany invaded the Soviet Union through the expansion of the western frontier . September 28 , the Soviets moved into Lithuania, Latvia , Estonia, early August 1940 forcibly incorporated in -
Germany conquered Scandinavia
When Operation Weserübung Norwegian troops were defending coastal defense fort in Oslo, two-door 280 mm artillery hit the sunken heavy cruiser Blucher
Main article: Operation Weserübung
December 14, 1939 , in iron ore sources believe may threaten the Allies after Hitler ordered the invasion of Norway IDF high command draft plan , namely Operation Weserübung . April 9 German invasion began , the Danish King Christian X. immediately surrender, Norwegian army struggling to resist . Allied troops on -
Battle of Britain
When Germany attacked Britain by bombing them. Many Canadian pilots helped the RAF defeat Germany. -
Operation Barbarossa plan
When the Battle of Kiev , the Germans bombed beside a pontoon bridge across the river to set up forward
England frustrated after Hitler , decided June 22, 1941 raid on the Soviet Union , about 3.2 million German ground offensive into the east , there are hundreds of thousands of accompanying Romania, Hungary, Slovakia and Italy troops , Finland (Not the Axis powers , but war confrontation with the Soviet Union ) launched an offensive from the north . German offensive also ignited the independe -
Hongkong
n the same morning as the attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, forces of the Empire of Japan attacked British Hong Kong. -
Air warfare of Japan
Washington tried to deter Japanese entry into the war by threatening the firebombing of Japanese cities using B-17 strategic bombers based in the Philippines. The US sent too little too late, as the Japanese easily overwhelmed the American "Far Eastern Air Force" the day after Pearl Harbor.[44]
Japanese naval air power proved unexpectedly powerful, sinking the American battleship fleet at Pearl Harbor in December 1941, then raging widely across the Pacific and Indian oceans to defeat elements of -
Battle of the Java Sea
At the Battle of the Java Sea, February 27, 1942, the Japanese Navy destroyed the main ABDA (American, British, Dutch, and Australian) naval force. The Netherlands East Indies campaign resulted in the surrender of Allied forces on Java. Meanwhile, Japanese aircraft had all but eliminated Allied air power in South-East Asia and began attacking Australia, with a major raid on Darwin, February 19. A raid by a powerful Japanese Navy aircraft carrier force into the Indian Ocean resulted in the Battle -
Main article: Battle of Stalingrad
Fierce street fighting in the city of Stalingrad
Operation Barbarossa plan failed after Hitler attacked the Soviet Union 's ambitions diminished , he believes Stalingrad , this Soviet leader Stalin in the name of the current city , captured it will make the Soviet Union who suffered a serious setback gas , so the city has become Hitler's attack object . -
The Raid on Dieppe
With virtually all of continental Europe under German occupation, the Allied forces faced a well-entrenched enemy. Some method had to be found to create a foothold on the continent, and the Raid on Dieppe offered invaluable lessons for the successful D-Day invasion in 1944, saving countless lives in that momentous offensive. -
Italian Campaign
The Italian Campaign of World War II was the name of Allied operations in and around Italy, from 1943 to the end of the war in Europe. Joint Allied Forces Headquarters (AFHQ) was operationally responsible for all Allied land forces in the Mediterranean theatre, and it planned and commanded the invasion of Sicily and the campaign on the Italian mainland until the surrender of German forces in Italy in May 1945.
It is estimated that between September 1943 and April 1945, some 60,000 Allied and 50,
