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Invasion of Poland
The invasion lasted from September 1 to October 5, 1939. As dawn broke on September 1, 1939, German forces launched a surprise attack on Poland. The attack was sounded with the predawn shelling, by the German battleship Schleswig-Holstein, of Polish fortifications at the Baltic port of Danzig (modern Dansk) -
SLOVAKS DECLARE THEIR INDEPENDENCE
Under German pressure, the Slovaks declare their independence and form a Slovak Republic. In violation of the Munich agreement, the Germans occupy the rest of Czech territory and form the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. -
TRIPARTITE PACT
Germany, Italy and Japan signed the Tripartite Pact on September 27, 1940. This pact formalized the alliance between the three countries later designated as the Axis powers. In the pact, Japan recognized “the leadership of Germany and Italy in the establishment of a new order in Europe.” -
BATTLE OF THE ALPS
The Italian invasion of France, also known as the Battle of the Alps, was a war that marked the entry of the Kingdom of Italy into World War II, and was the last operation of the larger contest between the French Third Republic and the Third Reich, which culminated in a German victory. -
PEARL HARBOR ATTACK
On December 7, 1941, Japan made a surprise attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor in the Hawaiian archipelago. The surprising Japanese maneuver caused consternation in the United States and led to the entry of this country into the war as part of the Allied side. -
GERMANY’S DECLARATION OF WAR AGAINST THE UNITED STATES
On December 11, 1941, four days after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the U.S. Declaration of War against Japan, Nazi Germany declared war on the United States, in response to what was claimed to be a series of provocations and pretexts by the U.S. government to meddle in the war, while the United States was still officially neutral during World War II. -
THE BATTLE OF MIDWAY
On June 4, 1942, two powerful fleets, the American and the Imperial Japanese, clashed in the Pacific in a decisive battle for control of Midway Atoll, where the Americans had a naval base, halfway between Asia and America. The Empire of the Rising Sun chose this place to deal what they believed would be the definitive blow to the United States. -
SECOND BATTLE OF EL ALAMEIN
The Second Battle of El Alamein was the turning point of the war in North Africa during World War II. The battle was a continuation of the First Battle of El Alamein, which had halted the advance of the Afrika Korps forces. General Bernard Montgomery had taken command of the British 8th Army, displacing Claude Auchinleck in August 1942. -
THE ALLIED INVASION OF SICILY
The Allied invasion of Sicily began on the night of July 9-10, 1943 and ended on August 17 with an Allied victory. The invasion of the island was dubbed Operation Husky and began with a major amphibious and airborne operation, followed by a six-week land campaign. It began the Italian campaign. -
THE TUNIS CAMPAIGN
The Tunis Campaign (also known as the Battle of Tunis) is a series of battles that took place in Tunisia during the North African Campaign of World War II between Axis and Allied forces.
The Allied forces were composed of British Imperial Forces and U.S. Armed Forces, including also Polish, Greek and Free French troops. -
THE LANDING OF NORMANDY
known as D-Day, on June 6, 1944, Allied forces launched a combined naval, air and ground assault against Nazi-occupied France. Known as the operation codenamed Overlord, the Allied landings on the beaches of Normandy would mark the beginning of a long and costly campaign to liberate northwestern Europe from German occupation. -
THE PHILIPPINE CAMPAIGN
The Philippine Campaign of 1944-1945, the Battle of the Philippines of 1944-1945, or the Liberation of the Philippines was the American, Mexican, and Philippine campaign to defeat and expel the Imperial Japanese forces occupying the Commonwealth of the Philippines, during World War II. The Imperial Japanese Army had invaded the entire Philippines during the first half of 1942. -
ATOMIC BOMBING HIROSHIMA
Los días 6 y 9 de agosto de 1945, Estados Unidos detonó dos bombas atómicas sobre las ciudades japonesas de Hiroshima y Nagasaki. Los bombardeos mataron entre 129.000 y 226.000 personas, la mayoría civiles, y siguen siendo el único uso de armas nucleares en un conflicto armado. -
THE DEATH OF ADOLF HITLER
The death of Adolf Hitler, leader of the National Socialist German Workers' Party (1921-1945) and Führer and Reichskanzler of the Third Reich (1933-1945), occurred on April 30, 1945, in the Führerbunker in Berlin; Hitler committed suicide by gunshot to the headbc along with his wife Eva Braun, who resorted to cyanide poisoning.