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Germany invaded Poland
On this day in 1939, German forces bombard Poland on land and from the air, as Adolf Hitler seeks to regain lost territory and ultimately rule Poland. Poland try to fight back but lost -
Germany invaded France
German bombers hit air bases in France,and destroying large numbers of Allied planes on the ground and crippling Allied air defenses. German tanks had broken through the main fronts along the Somme River and the fortified Maginot Line, moving ever closer to their goal, Paris -
The battle of Britain
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, begins.Although Britain had far fewer fighters than the Germans–600 to 1,300–it had a few advantages, such as an effective radar system, which made the prospects of a German sneak attack unlikely Opening day of battle a plea was made by the government to turn in all available aluminum to the Ministry of Aircraft Production. -
United States gave Britain war supplies
United States began to provide significant military supplies and other assistance to the Allies in September 1940, even though the United States did not enter the war until December 1941.Through Lend-Lease the United States became what President Franklin D. Roosevelt called the "arsenal of democracy," making and supplying materiel of war to Great Britain and others fighting Axis powers. -
Germany invaded Soviet Union and Soviet Union defeated Germany
Adolf Hitler launched his armies eastward in a massive invasion of the Soviet Union: three great army groups with over three million German soldiers, 150 divisions, and three thousand tanks smashed across the frontier into Soviet territory.Germans struggled to the gates of Moscow where Soviet counterattacks stopped them in early December.Barbarossa had failed, and Nazi Germany confronted a two-front war that it could not win. -
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor is a U.S. naval base near Honolulu, Hawaii, and was the scene of a devastating surprise attack by Japanese forces. Japanese fighter planes descended on the base, where they 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, including civilians, and another 1,000 people were wounded.After the assault, President Franklin D. Roosevelt asked Congress to declare war on Japan. -
Germany declared war on the United States
On December 8, Japanese Ambassador Oshima went to German Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop to nail the Germans down on a formal declaration of war against America.Adolf Hitler declares war on the United States, bringing America, which had been neutral, into the European conflict.The bombing of Pearl Harbor surprised even Germany. Although Hitler had made an oral agreement with his Axis partner Japan that Germany would join a war against the United States. -
D-day begin the liberation of Western Europe
Codenamed Operation Overlord, 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 military assaults in history and required extensive planning.The Americans entered the war in December 1941.Hitler made people make 2,400-mile fortification of bunkers, landmines and beach and water obstacles. -
United States was victorious over Japan
This day was know as Marianas Turkey Shoot,” U.S. carrier-based fighters decimate the Japanese Fleet with only a minimum of losses in the Battle of the Philippine Sea.Japanese Admiral Ozawa Jisaburo decided to challenge the American fleet, ordering 430 of his planes, launched from aircraft carriers, to attack. In what became the greatest carrier battle of the war, the United States, having already picked up the Japanese craft on radar, proceeded to shoot down more than 300. -
United States dropped two atomic bombs on japan and japan surrendered
The Japanese navy and air force were destroyed.The Allied naval blockade of Japan and intensive bombing of Japanese cities had left the country and its economy devastated. At the end of June, the Americans captured Okinawa a Japanese island from which the Allies could launch an invasion of the main Japanese islands. U.S. General Douglas MacArthur was put in charge of the invasion, which was codenamed Operation Olympic 1945.United States detonated the world’s first atomic bomb in the New Mexico
