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Begining of WWII
1.5 million German troops invade poland all along its 1,750 mile border with German-controlled territory, It's starting of WW II. -
Fall of France
In the second world war, the British of France, also known as the Fall of France, was the successful German invasion of France and the low countries, begining on 10 May 1940, defeating primarily French forces. -
Operation Barbarossa
Adolf Hitler launched his armies eastward in a massive invasion of the Soviet Union: three greate army groups with over three million German soldiers, 150 divisions, and three thousand tanks smashed across the frontier into Soviet territory. -
Pearl Harbor
Hundreds of japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii. -
D-Day
The day when the Allies invade Western Europe in the largest amphibious attack in history. -
V-E Day
German troops throughout the Europe finally laid down their arms. In Pargue, Germans surrendered to their soviet antaonists, after the latter had lost more than 8,000 soldiers, and the Germans considerably more; in Copenhagen and Oslo; at Karlshorst, near Berlin; in northern Latvia; On the Channel Island of Sark- the German surrender was realized in a final cease- fire. -
Atomic Bomb
A US B-29 bomber dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, instantly killing around 80,000 people. Three days later, a second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, causing the deaths of 40,000 more. The dropping of the bombs, which occurred by executive order of US President Harry Truman, remains the only nuclear attack in history. In the months following the attack, roughly 100,000 more people died slow, horrendous deaths as a result of radiation. -
V-J Day
on August 14, 1945, it was announced that japan had surremdered unconditionallt to Allies, effectively ending world war II. Japan surrendered was caused by bombing the Hiroshima and Nagasaki by America.
