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Invasion Of Poland
Also known as the Semptember Campaign or 1939 defensive war. It marked the start of world war 2 -
Invasion of France
Also known as the fall of France, it was the German invasion of France and the low countries. -
Battle of Britain
The Battle of Britain was the first major campaign to be fought entirely by air forces, and was also the largest and most sustained aerial bombing campaign to that date. -
Operation sealion
Germany's plan was to invade the United Kingdom. Germany was defeated in the Battle of Britan which posponed operation sealion indefinatly. -
Operation Barbarossa
Operation Barbarossa was the largest military operation in human history in both manpower and casualties. It was the code name for Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II -
Pearl Harbor
A surpeize attack on the United States naval base by the Imperial Japanese Navy. It was intended as a preventative action to keep th U.S. from interfering with the war Japan was planning. -
Battle of Midway
Regarded as the most important navla battle of the Pacific Campaign. The Japanese aimed to eliminate the United States as a strategic power in the Pacific -
Battle of Stalingrad
Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control over Stalingrad. The Battle marked the turning point of war in favor of the allies. -
Battle of Guadacanal
Part of the Allied strategic plan to protect the convoy routes between the U.S, Australia and New Zealand. -
Operation Torch
The Soviet Union had pressed the United States and Britain to start operations in Europe and open a second front to reduce the pressure of German forces on the Soviet troops. -
Battle of Tarawa
The first American offensive in the critical central pacific region. -
Anzio Landing
planned by Winston churchill to take rome -
D-Day
160,000 allied troops landed a long a 50-mile stretch of heavily fortified French coastline to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy France. -
Battle of Leningrad
The capture of Lengrad was one of three strategic goals in the German plane codnamed operation Barbarossa of the eastern front. -
Operation Market Garden
An allied military operation fought in the netherlands and Germany in the second world war. -
Nagasaki
Capital and largest city of Nagasaki prefecture of hyshui in Japan. -
Battle of the Bulge
A amjor German offensive, launched toward the end of world war 2 through the densely forced Ardennes mountain region of Walnnia in Belgium -
Battle for Berlin
Red army breached the German front as a result of the vistula order offensive and advanced westward as much as 40 kilometers a day. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
A battle in which the United States fought for and captured Iwo Jima from Japan. -
Battle of Okinowa
The allies were approaching Japan and planned to use Okinawa a large island only 340 miles away from mainland Japan. -
Hitler's Suicide
Adolf Hitler committed suicide by gunshot in his fuhrer bunker in Berlin. -
VE Day
The world war 2 allies farmally accepted the unconditional surrender of the armed forces of Nazi Germany and the end of Hitler's third reich -
Hiroshima
First city to be destroyed by a nuclear weapon. -
VJ Day
Japan surrendered.
