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Invasion of Poland
the aging German pre-dreadnought battleship Schleswig-Holstein arrived in the port of the Free City of Danzig. Officially, it was there to celebrate the anniversary of the German victory in the Battle of Tannenberg in World War I, but the ship had a more sinister purpose. Unbeknownst to onlookers, over 200 marines were hidden below deck, preparing for a deliberate and unprovoked attack against Poland. -
Fall of France to Nazi Forces
a remarkable German assault on north-west Europe, known as the Battle of France, resulted in the capture and subjugation of not only France but three other countries Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and Belgium. It also witnessed the retreat of the British Army and its evacuation home from Dunkirk and other western French ports. -
Rescue at Dunkirk
The Dunkirk evacuation, codenamed Operation Dynamo and also known as the Miracle of Dunkirk was the evacuation of more than 338,000 Allied soldiers during the Second World War from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk, in the north of France.The operation commenced after large numbers of Belgian, British, and French troops were cut off and surrounded by German troops during the six-week Battle of France. -
London Blitz
The Blitz was a German bombing campaign against the United Kingdom during the Second World War. The term was first used by the British press and originated from the term Blitzkrieg, the German word meaning 'lightning war'.The Germans conducted mass air attacks against industrial targets, towns, and cities, beginning with raids on London towards the end of the Battle of Britain. -
Attack on pearl harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States against the American naval base at Pearl Harbor. The United States was a neutral country at the time, the attack led the U.S. to formally enter World War II on the side of the Allies the following day. -
Bataan Death March
The Bataan Death March was when the Japanese army forcibly transferred 75,000 American and Filipino prisoners. The Japanese army beat, killed, and even beheaded the prisoners that were forced to march. -
Doolittle's Raid
was an air raid on 18 April 1942 by the United States on the Japanese capital Tokyo and other places on Honshu during World War II. It was the first American air operation to strike the Japanese archipelago. -
Battle of Midway
The Battle of Midway was a major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II that took place six months after the Empire of Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea. The U.S. The Navy defeated an attacking fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy. -
Guadalcanal
The Guadalcanal campaign, also known as the Battle of Guadalcanal and codenamed Operation Watchtower by American forces. It was the first major land offensive by Allied forces against the Empire of Japan. -
Victory at Stalingrad
It was a major battle on the Eastern Front of World War II where Nazi Germany and its allies unsuccessfully fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad.The battle was marked by fierce close-quarters combat and direct assaults on civilians in air raids, with the battle epitomizing urban warfare. -
Operation Market Garden
It was an Allied military operation during the Second World War fought in the German-occupied Netherlands. Its objective was to create a 64 mi salient into German territory with a bridgehead over the Nederrijn, creating an Allied invasion route into northern Germany. -
Italian Campaign
In the final push to defeat the Axis powers of Italy and Germany during World War II, the U.S. Great Britain planned to invade Italy. Beyond their goal of crushing Italian Axis forces, the Allies wanted to draw German troops away from the main Allied advance through Nazi-occupied northern Europe to Berlin, Germany. -
D-Day (Invasion of Normandy)
The Normandy beaches were chosen by planners because they lay within range of air cover, and were less heavily defended than the obvious objective of the Pas de Calais, the shortest distance between Great Britain and the Continent. Six divisions were to land on the first day; three U.S., two British and one Canadian. Two more British and one U.S. divisions were to follow up after the assault division had cleared the way through the beach defenses. -
Leyte
The Pacific campaign of World War II was the amphibious invasion of the island of Leyte in the Philippines by American forces and Filipino guerrillas, who fought against the Imperial Japanese Army in the Philippines. The operation, codenamed King Two, launched the Philippines campaign of 1944–45 for the recapture and liberation of the entire Philippine Archipelago and to end almost three years of Japanese occupation -
Battle of the Bulge
The Battle of the Bulge, also known as the Ardennes Offensive, was a major German offensive campaign on the Western Front during World War II. The offensive was intended to stop Allied use of the Belgian port of Antwerp and to split the Allied lines, allowing the Germans to individually encircle and destroy the four Allied armies and force the western Allies to negotiate a peace treaty in the Axis powers' favor. -
Iwo Jima
The major battle in which the US Marines and Navy landed on and captured the island of iwo jima. The American invasion had the purpose of capturing the island with its two airfields. -
Okinawa
More than 60,000 soldiers and US Marines of the US Tenth Army stormed ashore at Okinawa, in the final island battle before an anticipated invasion of mainland Japan. Under relentless assault by the Tenth Army, Shuri Castle fell, and US Marines seized the airfield at Naha through an amphibious assault commencing. -
Victory in Europe Day
Victory in Europe Day is the day celebrating the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces. It marked the official end of World War II in Europe in the Eastern Front, with the last known shots fired -
Bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki
during world war II, an american b-29 bomber dropped the world's first deployed atomic bomb over the japanese city hiroshima. The explosion immediately killed an estimated 80,000 people and tens of thousands more would later then die. -
Surrender of Japan
The surrender of the Empire of Japan in World War II was formally signed on 2 September 1945, bringing the war's hostilities to a close. By the end of July 1945, the Imperial Japanese Navy had become incapable of conducting major operations and an Allied invasion of Japan was imminent.