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France and Great Britain guarantee the integrity of the borders of the Polish state.
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Hitler and stalin had a nonaggression aggrement to not attack each other so the germans could attack poland.
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German's invaid poland which start the war.
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The Soviet Union invades Finland, initiating the so-called Winter War. The Finns sue for an armistice and have to cede the northern shores of Lake Lagoda and the small Finnish coastline on the Arctic Sea to the Soviet Union.
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Denmark surrenders on the day of the attack; Norway holds out until June 9.
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German forces attacked the Low Countries. Moving to their aid, French troops and the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) were unable to prevent their fall.
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Italy invades southern France on June 21.
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when the us gave goods to the british forces without pay untill after the war
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The Germans send the Afrika Korps to North Africa to reinforce the faltering Italians.
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Yugoslavia surrenders on April 17. Germany and Bulgaria invade Greece in support of the Italians.
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Japanese raid on Pearl Harbor was one of the great defining moments in history.
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In the weeks after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued a directive that efforts be made to directly attack Japan as soon as possible.
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The us broke the japanese code and were able to counter attack and have the upper hand in battle stoping the japanese from expanding into Australia
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German troops fight their way into Stalingrad on the Volga River by mid-September and penetrate deep into the Caucasus after securing the Crimean Peninsula.
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US troops halt the Japanese island-hopping advance towards Australia at Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands.
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at El Alamein in Egypt, sending the Axis forces in chaotic retreat across Libya to the eastern border of Tunisia.
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invasion of north africa and first time america seaks combat.
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having been persuaded of the impracticality of launching an invasion of France as a second front, American commanders agreed to conduct landings in northwest Africa with the goal of clearing the continent of Axis troops and preparing the way for a future attack on southern Europe.
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World War II in North Africa ended in 1943, when Axis forces surrendered, and 275,000 German and Italian troops were captured after the final assaults on Tunis and Bizerte.
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Kursk was to be the biggest tank battle of World War Two and the battle resulted in a severe crisis for Nazi Germany’s war machine in Russia.
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The Germans launch a massive tank offensive near Kursk in the Soviet Union. The Soviets blunt the attack within a week and begin an offensive initiative of their own.
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US forces land on beaches and while the germans wait and attack them back.
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Fearing Hungary’s intention to desert the Axis partnership, the Germans occupy Hungary and compel the regent, Admiral Miklos Horthy, to appoint a pro-German minister president.
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160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France. General Dwight D.
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This battle was said to be the last great carrier battle of World War Two.
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The Soviets launch a massive offensive in eastern Byelorussia (Belarus), destroying the German Army Group Center and driving westward to the Vistula River across from Warsaw in central Poland
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While General Douglas MacArthur favored advancing into the Philippines to make good his promise to liberate that country, Admiral Chester W. Nimitz preferred to capture Formosa and Okinawa which could serve a springboards for future operations against China and Japan.
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Though supported by American and British aircraft, the campaign would be entirely conducted by the Red Army on the ground as General Dwight D. Eisenhower saw no reason to sustain losses for an objective that would ultimately fall into the Soviet occupation zone after the war.
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both Great Britain and the United States celebrate Victory in Europe Day.
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Japan surrenders and ends the war in the pacific.
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Unable to challenge the Royal Navy in regard to capital ships, the Kriegsmarine began a campaign against Allied shipping with the goal of cutting off Britain from the supplies needed to wage war
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Adolf Hitler issued a directive for an offensive designed to stabilize the situation. His ultimate goal was to compel the United States and Britain to sign a separate peace so that Germany could focus its efforts against the Soviets in the East.
