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Germany and the Soviet Union invades Poland.
Germany invading Poland was the start if World War II. Britain and France responded to the invasion by attacking Germany. Later Poland was soon defeated by he German and Soviet forces. -
Lend-Lease
The transfer of supplies without compensation to Britain, China, the Soviet Union and other countries, the act permitted the United States to support its war interests without being overextended in battle. -
Germany invaded France and captured Paris
Germany invading France was also known as the fall of France. France only lasted six weeks in battle. The French believed the German forces would attack through Belgium as they had during WWI. -
Battle of Britain began
A combat where the Royal Air Force defended the United Kingdom from German Air Force attacks. -
Operation Barbarossa
Operation Barbarossa was the code name for Nazi Germany's World War II invasion of the Soviet Union -
Germany invaded the Soviet Union
This caused the permanent elimination of the communist threat to Germany. The seizure of prime land within Soviet borders for long-term German settlement had been core policy of the Nazi movement since the 1920s -
Japan Bombed Pearl Harbor
Hundreds of Japanese fighter planes bombed Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii. The Japanese destroyed over 90% of American fleet -
Germany declares war on the United States, The United States declare war on Japan and Germany
The day after Pearl Harbor President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave a ten-minute speech and within an hour after giving the speech the United States declared War on Japan and Germany -
Bataan Death March
U.S. surrender of the Bataan Peninsula on the main Philippine island of Luzon to the Japanese during World War II, the approximately 75,000 Filipino and American troops on Bataan were forced to make an arduous 65-mile march to prison camps. -
The United States defeats Japan
The battle for Guadalcanal began in August when the Marines landed in the first American offensive of the war. The ground fighting saw U.S. troops gain a decisive edge, wiping out detachments and regiments in brutal combat. The most effective Japanese counterstrikes came from the air and sea, with bombing raids harassing the Marines and threatening their dwindling supplies. But before the Japanese could reinforce their own ground troops, the Navy went to work -
Warshaw Ghetto rising
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 -
American and other allied troops landed in Normandy on D-Day
Called Operation Overlord, during World War II, the Allied invasion of western Europe. The most celebrated D-Day in war history -
Liberation of Concentration camps
Soviet soldiers were the first to liberate concentration camp prisoners in the final stages of the war -
Battle of the Bulge
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 -
Battle of Iwo Jima
The Battle of Iwo Jima was a major battle in which the United States Marine Corps landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II -
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
An American bomber dropped the world's first deployed atomic bomb over Japan which wiped out over 90% of Hiroshima's population.
