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Germany invades Poland
1.5 million German troops invaded Poland along their border line. Hitler claimed the invasion was a act of defense. -
The United States gives Britain war supplies
The United States let Britain borrow war supplies because it was a law (program) by the U.S. When the lease was over this... Would have to pay them back with money or with returning the goods. -
Germany invades France and captured Paris
Germany was planning to attack Russia and they knew France would honour its alliance with Russia, so they attacked them as well. -
Germany bombs London, Battle of Britain
They were actually trying to bomb Britain, but they bombed London on accident due to a lost pilot on that plane. -
Germany invaded the Soviet Union
On 22 June 1941, the Germans broke their agreement and invaded the Soviet Union. Hitler regarded the Soviets as sub-human. He also believed the Jews had created communism. The war in the East was aimed not merely at conquest but at the destruction of millions of Soviets. -
Operation Barbarossa
Hitler's interest in overthrowing the soviet regime was heightened. He becane suspicious and he began to feel that he could not afford to wait to complete the subjection of Western Europe as he had originally planned, before dealing with the Soviet Union. -
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Japanese Navy Air Service against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor. Japan intended the attack as a preventive action to keep the U.S. Pacific Fleet from interfering with military actions that were planned in Southeast Asia against overseas territories of the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and the United States. -
The United States declared war on Japan and Germany
Four days after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the U.S. declaring war against the Japanese empire, Germany declared war on the U.S. in response to what was claimed to be a series of provocations by the United States government when the US was still officially neutral during World War II. The decision to declare war was made by Adolf Hitler, almost without consultation. Later that day, the United States declared war on Germany. -
Bataan Death March
The Bataan Death March was the transfer of thousands of prisoners of war, they were loaded onto trains. The march began Jan. 7th and continued until April 9th, when the General Edward King Jr. surrendered to Col. Nakayama of the 14th Jap. army. -
Warsaw Ghetto uprising
The Warsaw Ghetto uprising was the 1943 act of Jewish resistance that arose within the Warsaw Ghetto in German-occupied Poland during World War II, and which opposed Nazi Germany's final effort to transport the remaining Ghetto population to Treblinka. The uprising started on 19 April when the Ghetto refused to surrender to the police commander. -
American and other allied troops land in Normandy...on D-Day
Allies were in firm control of Normandy, and on August 25, Paris was liberated by the French Resistance with help from the French Forces of the Interior and the U.S. 4th Infantry Division. In September, the Allies launched another major invasion. -
Battle of the Bulge
Hitler attempted to split the Allied armies in northwest Europe by a surprise blitzkrieg through the Ardennes to Antwerp. As the Germans drove deeper into the Ardennes in an attempt to secure vital bridgeheads, the Allied line took on the appearance of a large bulge, giving rise to the battle’s name. -
Battle of Iwo JIma
The Battle of Iwo Jima was a major battle in which the United States Marine Corps captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Imperial Japanese Army during WW ll. The American invasion, had the goal of capturing the entire island, including the three Japanese-controlled airfields to provide a staging area for attacks on the Japanese main islands. -
Liberation of concentration camps
Soviet soldiers were the first to liberate concentration camp prisoners. They entered a camp in Poland, and later overran several other killing centers. A few months later the entered Auschwitz and they found hundreds of sick and exhausted prisoners.The Germans had been forced to leave these prisoners behind in their retreat from the camp. -
The United States was victorious over Japan.
was the result of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki t’s possible that these finally pushed Emperor Hirohito (posthumously called Emperor Showa) to break the deadlock in the Supreme War Council and accept the terms of the Potsdam Declaration for unconditional surrender issued by the Allied leaders on July 26, 1945. In that declaration, there was a promise of “prompt and utter destruction” if the armed forces of Japan didn’t surrender. -
The United States dropped two atomic bombs on Japan
The U.S. bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki due to the attack Japan caused on Pearl Harbor so the US. bombed Japan in two different places They surrendered after the second bomb because they saw that the United States was winning and they had no chance of fighting.
