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Germany invaded Poland the 1 of September with the intention of recovering the territories lost by the Treaty of Versailles. This event caused the outbreak of World War Il. -
In fulfillment of their commitment to ensure the integrity of Poland's borders, Britain and France declare war on Germany on September 3, 1939. -
On June 14, 1940, the Nazi army entered a deserted and distressed Paris. On June 14, 1940, the Nazi army entered a deserted and distressed Paris, with tens of thousands of its citizens lost on the roads of France in one of the saddest exoduses in the history of the 20th century. -
In early August 1941 the Germans captured the city of Smolensk, an important defense post on the way to Moscow, but fighting in the Smolensk area blocked the German advance until mid-September, making Blitzkrieg unfeasible. -
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military offensive by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor on the morning of Sunday, December 7, 1941. -
Soviet forces launched a counteroffensive against the Germans arrayed at Stalingrad in mid-November 1942. They quickly encircled an entire German army, more than 220,000 soldiers. In February 1943, after months of fierce fighting and heavy casualties, the surviving German forces—only about 91,000 soldiers—surrendered. -
The Normandy landings were the landing operations and associated air operations on Tuesday, June 6, 1944, of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II.
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The death of Benito Mussolini, the deposed Italian fascist dictator, occurred on 28 April 1945, in the final days of World War II in Europe, when he was summarily executed by an Italian partisan in the small village of Giulino di Mezzegra in northern Italy. The generally accepted version of events is that Mussolini was shot by Walter Audisio, a communist partisan. -
The German capitulation acts ended World War II in Europe. The text was signed on May 7, 1945 in Karlshorst, Berlin by representatives of the three armed forces of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (OKW), the Allied Forces being the highest Soviet, American and French officials, observers of the signing.
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The United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6 and 9 August 1945, respectively. The two bombings killed between 129,000 and 226,000 people, most of whom were civilians, and remain the only use of nuclear weapons in armed conflict. -
The surrender of Japan in World War II occurred on August 15, 1945 and was signed on September 2, 1945. The Empire of Japan accepted the Potsdam Declaration signed by the United States, the United Kingdom, the Republic of China and the Union Soviet.
