-
The invasion of Poland
The German invasion began on 1 September 1939, one week after the signing of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact between Germany and the Soviet Union, and one day after the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union had approved the pact.The Soviets invaded Poland on 17 September. The campaign ended on 6 October with Germany and the Soviet Union dividing and annexing the whole of Poland under the terms of the German–Soviet Frontier Treaty. -
Period: to
1939-1945
-
Period: to
1939-1945
-
German invasion of France
Was the German invasion of France and the Low Countries during the Second World War. On 3 September 1939 France had declared war on Germany, following the German invasion of Poland.In 46 days, the Wehrmacht annihilated the Allied troops and occupied the Western part of France. -
The Battle of Britain
Was a military campaign of the Second World War, in which the Royal Air Force (RAF) defended the United Kingdom (UK) against large-scale attacks by Nazi Germany's air force, the Luftwaffe.The fist plan was to bomb all British airports in the islands so their air force could became useless. Gadgets like the radar supposed great advantages in the British side. -
Hitler and the Afrika Korps
Was the German expeditionary force in Africa during the North African Campaign of World War II. First sent as a holding force to shore up the Italian defense of their African colonies. Erwin Rommel was the chief commander of this force, he gained a lot of popularity in this front, and was nicknamed "the Desert Fox" -
Operation Barbarossa
Was the code name for the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union, which started on Sunday, 22 June 1941, during World War II. The operation put into action Nazi Germany's ideological goal of conquering the western Soviet Union so as to repopulate it with Germans. -
Attack on Pearl Harbor
Was a surprise, preemptive military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States (a neutral country at the time) against the naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, just before 08:00, on Sunday morning, December 7, 1941.This event brought USA into WW2, and also marks the begining of the War in the Pacific. -
Operation Torch
Was an Allied invasion of French North Africa during the Second World War. The French colonies in the area were dominated by the Vichy French, formally aligned with Germany but of mixed loyalties.The American General Dwight D. Eisenhower, commanding the operation, planned a three-pronged attack on Casablanca, Oran and Algiers , then a rapid move on Tunis. -
Allied landing on Salerno
Was the Allied amphibious landing on mainland Italy that took place on 3 September 1943 during the early stages of the Italian Campaign of World War II. The Italians withdrew from the war the day before the invasion, but the Allies landed in an area defended by German troops. The 25th of April, Italy was liberated. -
D-DAY
The Normandy landings were the landing operations and associated airborne operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. Codenamed Operation Neptune and often referred to as D-Day, it was the largest seaborne invasion in history. The operation began the liberation of German-occupied France (and later western Europe) and laid the foundations of the Allied victory on the Western Front. -
The Liberation of Paris
Was a military battle that took place during World War II from 19 August 1944 until the German garrison surrendered the French capital on 25 August 1944. Paris had been ruled by Nazi Germany since the signing of the Second Compiègne Armistice on 22 June 1940, after which the Wehrmacht occupied northern and western France. -
Adolf Hitler commits suicide
On April 30, 1945, holed up in a bunker under his headquarters in Berlin, Adolf Hitler and his wife Eva Braun commit suicide by swallowing a cyanide capsule and shooting themselves in the head. Soon after, Germany unconditionally surrendered to the Allied forces, ending Hitler’s dreams of a “1,000-year” Reich. -
Little Boy and Hiroshima
On August 6, 1945, during World War II , an American B-29 bomber (Enola Gay) dropped the world's first deployed atomic bomb (Little Boy) 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. -
Jamaon oficially Surrenders
The surrender of Imperial Japan was announced by Japanese Emperor Hirohito on August 15 and formally signed on September 2, 1945, bringing the hostilities of World War II to a close. Together with the British Empire and China, the USA called for the unconditional surrender of the Japanese armed forces in the Potsdam Declaration on July 26, 1945.
