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The Battle Of Britain And The Fall Of France
In April, 1940 Germany Invaded Denmark And Norway. In May the army staged a successful two-pronged attack on France, with one division invading through Belgium and the other through the Ardennes, south of Paris. The advancing German divisions cut off the British troops, who were forced to retreat across the English Channel. -
Germans bomb Paris
On June 3, 1940, the German air force bombs Paris, killing 254 people, most of them civilians. -
Hitler Tour Paris
Adolf Hitler visits Paris with architect Albert Speer (left) June 23, 1940 -
Nazis invade Greece and Yugoslavia
Invasion. On 6 April 1941, the German Army, supported by Hungarian and Bulgarian forces, attacked Yugoslavia and Greece. Hitler launched the assault in order to overthrow the recently established pro-Allied government in Yugoslavia and to support the stalling Italian invasion of Greece (launched in October 1940). -
Nazis murder 33,771 Jews at Kiev.
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Japanese Bombing Of Pearl Harbor
Aboard a Japanese carrier before the attack on Pearl Harbor, crew members cheer departing pilots. Below: A photo taken from a Japanese plane during the attack shows vulnerable American battleships, and in the distance, smoke rising from Hickam Airfield where 35 men having breakfast in the mess hall were killed after a direct bomb hit. -
First all-American air attack in Europe.
U.S. Army Air Force gunner Sgt. William Watts of Alexandria, Louisiana, fires his machine-gun at German fighter planes during a bombing run in 1942. -
Battle of the Barents Sea between German and British ships.
The Battle of the Barents Sea was a World War II naval engagement on 31 December 1942 between warships of the German Navy (Kriegsmarine) and British ships escorting convoy JW 51B to Kola Inlet in the USSR. The action took place in the Barents Sea north of North Cape, Norway. -
Soviet troops take Kursk.
Russian troops had retaken Stalingrad and captured nearly 100,000 German soldiers, though pockets of resistance continued to fight in the city until early March. Most of the captured soldiers died in Russian prison camps, either as a result of disease or starvation. -
Germans re-capture Kharkov.
The Third Battle of Kharkov was a series of battles on the Eastern Front of World War II, undertaken by Army Group South of Nazi Germany against the Soviet Red Army, around the city of Kharkov between 19 February and 15 March 1943. Known to the German side as the Donets Campaign, and in the Soviet Union as the Donbas and Kharkov operations, the German counterstrike led to the recapture of the cities of Kharkov and Belgorod. -
Soviet troops recapture Kharkov.
Soviet victory
The Belgorod–Kharkov strategic offensive operation, or simply Belgorod–Kharkov offensive operation, was a Soviet strategic summer offensive that aimed to recapture Belgorod and Kharkov, and destroy the German forces of the 4th Panzer Army and Army Detachment Kempf. -
British drop 3000 tons of bombs during an air raid on Hamburg, Germany.
Adolf Hitler, accompanied by other German officials, grimly inspects bomb damage in a German city in 1944. -
D-Day landings on the northern coast of France.
On 6 June 1944 – 'D-Day' – Allied forces launched the largest amphibious invasion in the history of warfare. Codenamed Operation 'Overlord', the Allied landings on the beaches of Normandy marked the start of a long and costly campaign to liberate north-west Europe from Nazi occupation. -
Last use of gas chambers at Auschwitz.
The crematorium I building was adapted as an air-raid shelter in 1944. The first provisional gas chamber, bunker 1, was demolished in 1943, while the second, returned to operational use in the spring of 1944, was demolished in the fall of 1944. -
The Flag
Five Marines and a Navy hospital corpsman raise the flag on Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima, using a piece of Japanese pipe as a mast, February 23, 1945. Three of the flag raisers were later killed as the fighting raged on. By March 16, when Iwo Jima was declared secured, 6,821 Americans and 21,000 Japanese (the entire force) had died. The flag raising photo and subsequent statue came to symbolize being a Marine. -
The Death Of Franklin D. Roosevelt And Take Over Of Truman
Vice President Harry S. Truman was sworn in as president of the United States on April 12, 1945, after the death of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who died suddenly of a cerebral hemorrhage. -
Adolf Hitler commits suicide.
Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician who was dictator of Germany from 1933 until his death in 1945. He rose to power as the leader of the Nazi Party, becoming the chancellor in 1933 and then taking the title of Führer und Reichskanzler in 1934. Wikipedia
Born: April 20, 1889, Braunau am Inn, Austria
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V-E Day
Victory in Europe Day is the day celebrating the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces on Tuesday, 8 May 1945, marking the official end of World War II in Europe in the Eastern Front, with the last shots fired on the 11th. -
First U.S. atomic bomb test:Trinity
The world's first nuclear explosion (Trinity) occurred On July 16, 1945, when a plutonium implosion device was tested at a site located 210 miles south of Los Alamos, New Mexico, on the plains of the Alamogordo Bombing Range, known as the Jornada del Muerto. -
First atomic bomb dropped, on Hiroshima, Japan
"Little Boy" Is The Name Of The Atomic Bomb That Was Dropped On Hiroshima, Japan On August 6, 1945.
it's estimated roughly 70,000 to 135,000 people. -
Second Nuclear Bomb Dropped On Japan.
Moments after the atomic bomb was dropped by a U.S. B-29 Superfortress, a cloud forms over the Japanese city of Nagasaki rising over 60,000 feet. Below: After the bomb, a Catholic Cathedral on the hill is all that remains.
It's estimated60,000 to 80,000 people died in Nagasaki. -
V-J Day
Victory over Japan Day is the day on which Imperial Japan surrendered in World War II, in effect bringing the war to an end. -
Japanese sign the surrender agreement.
On September 2, 1945, Japanese representatives signed the official Instrument of Surrender, prepared by the War Department and approved by President Harry S. Truman. It set out in eight short paragraphs the complete capitulation of Japan. -
United Nations is born.
Four months after the San Francisco Conference ended, the United Nations officially began, on 24 October 1945, when it came into existence after its Charter had been ratified by China, France, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, the United States and by a majority of other signatories. -
War Crimes Trials held in Tokyo.
Eleven countries came together to form the International Military Tribunal for the Far East (IMTFE), convened on April 29, 1946 to try the leaders of Japan for joint conspiracy to start and wage war.The prosecution team consisted of justices from eleven Allied nations: Australia , Canada , China , France, Great Britain, India, the Netherlands, New Zealand , the Philippines , the Soviet Union and the United States of America . The Tokyo trial lasted from May 1946 to November 1948. -
Hermann Göring commits suicide two hours before his scheduled execution.
öring joined the Nazi party in 1923 after hearing a speech by Adolf Hitler.
After the war, Göring was convicted of conspiracy, crimes against peace, war crimes and crimes against humanity at the Nuremberg trials in 1946. He was sentenced to death by hanging, but committed suicide by ingesting cyanide hours before the sentence was to be carried out. -
UNICEF
In 1946 (UNICEF) United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund Was Established. -
The First Polaroid
Polaroid founder Edwin Land first demonstrated the instant camera on February 21, 1947 at a meeting of the Optical Society of America in New York City. The Land camera, as it was originally known, contained a roll of positive paper with a pod of developing chemicals at the top of each frame. -
The Beginning Of The Cold War
The Cold War is a term commonly used to refer to a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc. -
Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan was an American initiative enacted, By President Truman, in 1948 to provide foreign aid to Western Europe. The United States transferred $13.3 billion in economic recovery programs to Western European economies after the end of World War II. -
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