World War 2

  • The World War 2 starts

    The World War 2 starts
    The world war 2 started because the invasion of Germany to Poland
  • UK and France declares war on Germany

    In response to Hitler’s invasion of Poland, Britain and France, both allies of the overrun nation declare war on Germany but in past days Germany a British ship "Athenia"
  • Italy enters war

    Italy enters war
    On this day in 1940, after withholding formal allegiance to either side in the battle between Germany and the Allies, Benito Mussolini, dictator of Italy, declares war on France and Great Britain.
  • Germany invades Norway and Denmark

    On this day in 1940, German warships enter major Norwegian ports, from Narvik to Oslo, deploying thousands of German troops and occupying Norway. At the same time, German forces occupy Copenhagen, among other Danish cities.
  • Battle of Britain

    The Battle of Britain took place during World War II between Britain’s Royal Air Force (RAF) and the Luftwaffe, Nazi Germany’s air force. From July 10 through October 31, 1940, pilots and support crews on both sides took to the skies and battled for control of airspace over Great Britain, Germany and the English Channel.
  • Operation Barbarossa

    Operation Barbarossa
    On June 22, 1941, 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. Barbarossa was the crucial turning point in World War II, for its failure forced Nazi Germany to fight a two-front war
  • Pearl Harbor

    Pearl Harbor
    Japan Air Force attacks an US military base on Honolulu this causes the mad toward Japan by US
  • Battle of Midway

    The Battle of Midway was an epic clash between the U.S. Navy and the Imperial Japanese Navy that played out six months after the attack on Pearl Harbor. The U.S. Navy’s decisive victory in the air-sea battle (June 3-6, 1942) and its successful defense of the major base located at Midway Island dashed Japan’s hopes of neutralizing the United States as a naval power and effectively turned the tide of World War II in the Pacific. And this turned on Axis lost of power on Pacific Ocean.
  • Italy surrenders

    With Mussolini deposed from power and the earlier collapse of the fascist government in July. Eisenhower for weeks. Weeks later, Badoglio finally approved a conditional surrender, allowing the Allies to land in southern Italy and begin beating the Germans back up the peninsula. Operation Avalanche, the Allied invasion of Italy, was given the go-ahead, and the next day would see Allied troops land in Salerno.
  • D day

    D day
    D-Day, the Allies conducted a large-scale deception campaign designed to mislead the Germans about the intended invasion target. By late August 1944, all of northern France had been liberated, and by the following spring the Allies had defeated the Germans. The Normandy landings have been called the beginning of the end of war in Europe.
  • Normandy invasion

    The Battle of Normandy, which lasted from June 1944 to August 1944, resulted in the Allied liberation of Western Europe from Nazi Germany’s control. 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 amphibious military assaults in history, requierd extensive planning
  • Paris liberation of Nazis

    Paris liberation of Nazis
    After the liberation of Western Europe , street battles are heard in a live broadcast as American troops enter Paris, joining the Allied fight to liberate the city from German control. On August 25, 1944, after many days of fighting, Germany surrendered Paris to the Allied forces, ending four years of occupation.
  • Ardennes offensive and Germanys fate

    The Battle of the Bulge in the Ardennes region of Belgium was Adolf Hitler’s last major offensive in World War II against the Western Front. Hitler’s aim was to split the Allies in their drive toward Germany. The German troops’ failure to divide Britain, France and America with the Ardennes offensive paved the way to victory for the allies.
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt dies

    Franklin D. Roosevelt dies
    On this day in 1945, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt dies after suffering a cerebral hemorrhage, leaving Vice President Harry S. Truman in charge of a country still fighting the Second World War and in possession of a weapon of unprecedented and terrifying and imagined power.
  • Iwo Jima last Japanese mayor defense

    Iwo Jima last Japanese mayor defense
    American forces invaded the island on February 19, 1945, and the ensuing Battle of Iwo Jima lasted for five weeks. In some of the bloodiest fighting of World War II, it’s believed that all but 200 or so of the 21,000 Japanese forces on the island were killed, as were almost 7,000 Marines. But once the fighting was over
  • Rhine river crossing

    Allies captured the Ludendorff Bridge from the Germans
  • Hitlers suicide

    Most of people think that this tyrant did killed himself but there are not yet sold proofs that he did the body founded had a woman DNA
  • Germany surrenders

    the German High Command, in the person of General Alfred Jodl, signs the unconditional surrender of all German forces, East and West, at Reims, in northeastern France.
  • First Atomic Bomb released

    American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion wiped out 90 percent of the city and immediately killed 80,000 people; tens of thousands more would later die of radiation exposure
  • Nagasaki bombing

    B-29 dropped another A-bomb on Nagasaki, killing an estimated 40,000 people on Japan
  • Japan finally surrenders

    Japan finally surrenders
    Aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay, Japan formally surrenders to the Allies, bringing an end to World War II (the bloodiest conflict ever)