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The German invasion of Poland
The German invasion of Poland was a military action of Nazi Germany aimed at annexing the Polish territory. The technical operation, known as the "White Case," began on September 1, 1939, and the last units of the Polish army surrendered on October 6 of that year. He was the trigger for World War II in Europe and ended the Second Polish Republic. -
The Battle of Britain
The battle of England was air fighting in the British sky and on the English Channel, between July and October 1940, when Germany sought to destroy the Royal British Air Force to obtain the necessary air superiority for an invasion of Great Britain, the Operation Leon Marino. -
Operation Barbarossa
Operation Barbarroja, undertaken on June 22, 1941, was the code name given by Adolf Hitler to the invasion plan of the Soviet Union by the Axis Forces during World War II. This operation opened the Eastern Front , which became the theater of one of the largest operations of the war, scene of the greatest and most brutal battles of the conflict in Europe. The name of the operation is a tribute to Federico I Barbarroja whose name is linked to German nationalism of the nineteenth century. -
The battle of Moscow
The battle of Moscow is the name given by Soviet historians to two strategically significant periods of struggle in a 600 km corridor of the Eastern Front during World War II. These episodes took place on december 5 of 1941. The Soviet defensive effort had thwarted Hitler's strategy of taking the city of Moscow, capital of Russia and its largest city, which was considered the first military and political objective of the axis forces for the invasion of the Soviet Union. -
Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise carried out by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base in Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), in December 7, 1941. The attack was intended to be a preventive action aimed at preventing intervention of the Pacific Fleet of the United States in the military actions that the Empire of Japan was planning to carry out in Southeast Asia against the overseas possessions of the United Kingdom, France, the Netherlands and the United States. -
Stalingrad
The battle of Stalingrad was a warlike confrontation between the Red Army of the Soviet Union and the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany and its Axis allies for control of the Soviet city of Stalingrad, now Volgograd, on August 23, 1942 -
Operation Torch
Operation Torch was the landing and advance towards Tunisia of Anglo-American troops in World War II during the campaign in North Africa, which began on November 8, 1942. -
Normandy
The Western Allies of World War II launched the largest amphibious invasion in history when they attacked German positions at Normandy, located on the northern coast of France, on 6 June 1944. The invaders were able to establish a beachhead as part of Operation Overlord after a successful "D-Day", the first day of the invasion. Allies United Kingdom, United States, Canada and Axis Nazi Germany. -
Operation Bagration
Operation Bagratión, also known as Operation Bagration Offensive, was the code name that received the mass offensive of the Red Army to destroy the German Army Group of Armies during the summer of June 22, 1944, three years after the invasion German of the Soviet Union, the Soviet forces began the operation. The German Army Army Group's destruction offensive reached its climax five weeks later when the Red Army arrived at the gates of Warsaw. -
Battle of the Bulge
The battle of the Ardennes was a great German offensive, launched at the end of World War II December 16, 1944, through the dense forests and mountains of the Ardennes region of Belgium and more specifically Wallonia, hence its French name, Bataille des Ardennes, France and Luxembourg on the Western Front. The Wehrmacht gave the offensive the codename Operation Wacht am Rhein for the German patriotic anthem Die Wacht am Rhein.
