WWII- War in Europe

By Jim Xue

  • Germany invades Poland

    Territorial Expansion. Started WWII.

  • Germans Occupy Paris

    Territorial Expansion. By the time German tanks rolled into Paris, 2 million Parisians had already fled, with good reason. In short order, the German Gestapo went to work: arrests, interrogations, and spying were the order of the day, as a gigantic swastika flew beneath the Arc de Triomphe.

  • Battle of Britain

    Military campaign of the Second World War, when the Royal Air Force defended the United Kingdom against the German Air Force attacks from the end of June 1940. (July 10, 1940 – October 31, 1940)

  • Tripartite Pact

    Also known as the Berlin Pact. Agreement between Germany, Japan and Italy signed in Berlin. Defensive Military Alliance.

  • Operation Overlord

    Code name for Battle of Normandy.

  • D-Day

    Normandy Landings. Soldiers to begin the slow, hard slog across Europe, to defeat Adolf Hitler’s crack troops.

  • Liberation of Nazi Concentration Camps

  • Battle of the Bulge

    It was the last major German offensive campaign of World War II. It was launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in Belgium, France, and Luxembourg, on the Western Front, towards the end of World War II, in the European theatre.

  • Bombing of Dresden

    Bombed the German city

  • V-E Day

    Victory in Europe Day

  • Potsdam Conference

    USSR, UK, US. The goals of the conference also included the establishment of post-war order, peace treaty issues, and countering the effects of the war.