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German forces invade Poland on land and from the air, as Hitler seeks to regain lost territory and rule Poland. World War II had begun.
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Hitler begins his Western offensive sending his forces into Holland and Belgium.
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After many battles between Germany and the Allies, Benito Mussolini declares war on France and Great Britain.
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the Japanese invaded Indochina to prevent the Republic of China from importing arms and fuel.
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The soviet union signed a non-aggression pact with Nazi Germany
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The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service against the United States naval base.
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Germany and Italy have announced they are at war with the United States.
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Berlin, the capital of Nazi Germany, was subject to 363 air raids during WW2.
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Japanese forces went through Owen Stanley Range take over Port Moresby as a strategy of isolating Australia from the United States.
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Japanese forces tried their hardest to go through the Kokoda trail, going through the steep path towards Port Moresby...
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Kokoda's recapture pushed the Australians were again committed to battle, fighting the Japanese at Oivi and Gorari.
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A battle during WW2 in which Nazi Germany and it's allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad.
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One month after Italy surrendered to Allied forces, it declared war on Nazi Germany, its Axis powers partner.
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multiple battles fought in the Japanese Ryukyu Islands.
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Claus von Stauffenberg and other conspirators attempted to assassinate Adolf Hitler.
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The Soviet army entered Auschwitz and released more than 7,000 remaining prisoners, who were mostly ill and dying.
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Marks the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces.
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an American bomber, Enola Gay, dropped a five-ton bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
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This date celebrates Japan's acceptance of the Allied demand for unconditional surrender
