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Battle of El Alamein
Montgomery attacked the German-Italian army in North Africa with a huge bombardment followed by an armored attack. He then continues to chase the routed enemy some up to 1500 miles across the desert. -
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Causes of world war two
Some causes of WWII were the Italian fascism in the 1920's, Japanese invading China in the 1930's, and the political takeover in 1933 of Germany by Hitler and his Nazis and it aggression foreign policy. -
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Outbreak of World War II
On September 1, 1939 Hitler invaded Poland from the west. England and France have declared war on Germany two days later. On September 17, the Soviet Union had invaded Poland from the east. -
Perl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory, on the morning of December 7, 1941. -
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The US joins WWII
After the attack on the Perl Harbor on December 7, 1941 the US The next day declare war on Japan. On December 11, 1941 Germany decides to declare war on the US because Japan and Germany were allies. -
Italy surrenders
Mussolini had been thrown out of office and the new government of Italy surrendered to the British and the USA. They then agreed to join the allies. -
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D-Day
The allies launched an attack on Germany’s forces in Normandy, Western France. Thousands of transports carried an invasion army under the supreme command of general Eisenhower to the Normandy beaches. This took place on June 6, 1944 and lasted up to June 30, 1944. -
The atomic bombs in Japan
President Harry S. Truman, warned by some of his advisers that any attempt to invade Japan would result in horrific American casualties, ordered that the new weapon be used to bring the war to a speedy end. On August 6, 1945, the American bomber Enola Gay dropped a five-ton bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima killing up to 80,000 people. On this day in 1945, a second atomic bomb is dropped on Japan by the United States, at Nagasaki, resulting finally in Japan's unconditional surrender.
