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Germany invades Poland
Poland was bombed by Germany by air and ground, On 1939. Adolf Hitler seeks to regain lost territory and take over Poland. Adolf Hitler used a new strategy called ' Blitzkrieg ' on Poland which took over Poland in 3 weeks. -
Germany invades France
German attack went through the Ardennes Forest in southeastern Belgium and northern Luxembourg. German infantry and tanks quickly broke through the French defensive lines and advanced to the coast. -
Germany bombs London, Battle of Britain Begans
The Germans begin the first in a long series of bombing raids against Great Britain, as the Battle of Britain, which will last three and a half months. -
The United States give Britain war Supplies
The United States began to provide significant military supplies and other assistance to the Allies in September 1940. Most of this aid went to the United Kingdom and other nations already at war with Germany and Japan through an innovative program known as Lend-Lease. -
Germany invades the Soviet Union
Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, the largest German military operation of World War II. On December 18, 1940, Adolf Hitler signed Directive 21 (code-named Operation "Barbarossa"), the first operational order for the invasion of the Soviet Union. -
Japan Bombs Pearl Harbor
December 7, 1941, just before 8 a.m. on that Sunday morning, hundreds of Japanese fighter planes bombed the base, where they managed to destroy or damage nearly 20 American naval vessels, including eight enormous battleships, and over 300 airplanes. More than 2,400 Americans died in the attack. President Franklin D. Roosevelt asked Congress to declare war on Japan the next day. -
Germany declares War on United States, United States declares War on Germany
Adolf Hitler was convinced that the United States would soon beat him to the punch and declare war on Germany. The U.S. Navy was already attacking German U-boats. On December 11, 1941 Adolf Hitler declares war on the United States. -
The United States was victorious over Japan in the Battle of Midway.
Six months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States defeated Japan in one of the most decisive naval battles of World War II. The Japanese carriers were caught while refueling and rearming their planes, making them especially vulnerable. American bombers sank four fleet carriers–the entire strength of the task force–Akagi, Kaga, Soryu, and Hiryu, with 322 aircraft and over five thousand sailors. The turning point in the Pacific war, which led to Americans straight into Tokyo. -
D-day
The battle began on June 6, 1944, also known as D-Day, when some 156,000 American, British and Canadian forces landed on five beaches along a 50-mile stretch of the heavily fortified coast of France’s Normandy region. The invasion was one of the largest amphibious military assaults in history. -
The Bombing of 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. The explosion wiped out 90 percent of the city and immediately killed 80,000 people. Three days later, a second B-29 dropped another A-bomb on Nagasaki, killing an estimated 40,000 people.
