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INVASION OF POLAND
Once established partnerships that guaranteed the necessary military support (USSR,etc..), Hitler decided to start his plan. April 28 demanded the return to Poland Danzig to the Reich and the right to build a road through the Polish Corridor. The refusal of Poland, with the support of France and Britain, was the excuse for the invasion. Finally Hitler and Stalin divided Poland in two parts, one control by USSR and the other by Nazi Germany. -
FRANCE AND GREAT BRITAIN DECLARED THE WAR TO GERMANY
On March 31, 1939 France and Great Britain had given assurances of its support to Poland, and on April 6 had signed a Pact of mutual assistance. So after that the nazis invaded Poland Britain and France will declare the war Alemania.Tras deal with Poland the nazis offered a peace treaty to France and Great Britain, which was rejected by its distrust of Hitler. -
WESERÜBUNG OPERATION
Operation Weserübung was the code name for the German assault on the neutral Denmark and Norway during the second world war, allegedly to protect them from a possible attack from France and United Kingdom. Operation Weserübung was considered a success. Norway and Denmark were occupied with 3,800 dead and 1,600 wounded German, and 100 aircraft, less than 10% of the used is lost. However, from the point of view of the German Navy, the operation was not as cheap. -
INVASION OF BELGIUM, HOLLAND AND LUXEMBOURG
German troops stormed, a "lightning war", by the Belgian and Dutch Plains. The Belgian fortress of Eben-Emael may 11 dropped. Rotterdam, the main Dutch port, May 14 was heavily bombarded. The Dutch government resigned. Both countries, along with Luxembourg, had been fully occupied in just two weeks. The Franco-British army, retrocedio because of the German pressure, and was trapped by the sea and the nazis, Dunkerque. -
GERMANY TAKES PARIS
Unreservedly to repel the German advance by France, Germans ran free in the North and centre of the country. In the last week's fight, a large contingent of soldiers escaped to England in the so-called operation Ariel, this time from the province of Brittany. The second group of French armies, representing the only force Allied fighter in Europe, surrendered on 22 June, two-thirds of France were occupied by the nazis and the rest was under French rule. -
BLITZ
The luftwaffe faced front to RAF bombing their bases and military airports to cancel the ability of the RAF to resist an invasion. The Germans attacked some English cities and in retaliation the British attacked Germany even reaching Berlin. After this Hitler entered in anger and began attacking English cities, especially in London causing more than 43000 casualties and destroying over one million homes. But this made that RAF could recover from their losses. -
ITALY INVADES GREECE
Because Hitler sent troops to Romania, the Italians decided to conquer Greece to counter the hegemony of Hitler in the Balkans and reduce the English presence in the Mediterranean. The Italians believed that it would be an easy conquest, but the Greeks rejected them and took the South of Albania. Attempts to retake the initiative and break the Greek defences failed among other things by its poor organization. -
GERMAN LANDING IN LYBIA
The Italians after an offensive English surrender and lose part of its territory in Africa. This event is not unnoticed by Hitler, who sent the Africakorps to Lybia under the command of general Erwin Rommel to help the Italians in the defence of its territory. Rommel had to adapt to their troops to the desert (for example he camouflaged its armoured cars throwing oil burned in the tank and giving them sand) and later began to launch offensives to the allies. -
INVASION OF YUGOSLAVIA AND MARITA OPERATION
Hitler signed an alliance with the Prince Pablo de Yugoslavia, to move with his army to Albania, but the Serbs rebelled and overthrew the monarch. Hitler suspended the Operation Barbarossa and sent its troops to Yugoslavia. After conquering Yugoslavia, advances made North of Greece taking unprepared Greek army which succumbed to the German potential. The survivors fled to Crete, which later it was conquered by German troops with heavy losses. -
BARBAROSSA OPERATION
Plan of invasion of the Union Sovietica. It meant a hard blow to the unprepared Soviet forces, who suffered heavy casualties and lost large tracts of territory in a short time. However, the arrival of the Russian winter ended German plans end the invasion in 1941. During the winter, the Red Army counterattacked and quashed hopes of Hitler to win the battle of Moscow. The operation ended on December 5, 1941, with the withdrawal of the German army. -
JAPANESSE BOMBING TO PEARL HARBOUR
It was a surprise military offensive carried out by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States at Pearl Harbor (Hawaii) naval base. The aim was to leave the American Navy used so do not intervene in the Pacific nor support English and French colonies overseas. The attack shocked the American people and ended up with the lives of more than 2000 Americans and the official entry of the United States in the second world war. -
UNITED STATES DECLARED THE WAR TO JAPAN
On the afternoon of December 7, 1941, President Roosevelt and his assistant Harry Hopkins received the call from the War Secretary Henry Stimson informing him of the attack on Pearl Harbor. After a meeting with his military advisers President wrote the request to Congress for a declaration of war to Japan. The decision was unanimous and United States declared the war to Japan. -
UNITED STATES DEFEAT JAPAN IN THE BATTLE OF MIDWAY
Six months after the attack on Pearl Harbour was a RID naval conflict between American troops (led by Nimitz) and Japanese troops (led by Yamamoto). In which the Americans stopped the attempt of Japan to invade Midway Atoll. The Japanese defeat was a blow to the expansion plans of Japan for the Pacific and a turning point in the whole of the conflict. For this reason it is considered the most important battle of the Pacific. -
ENGLAND STOPPED THE GERMAN ADVANCES IN THE FIRST BATTLE OF THE ALAMEIN
It was a battle of the campaign the desert west of the second war world, where they fought the axis forces commanded by Erwin Rommel, and allied forces commanded by Claude Auchinleck. The battle halted the second (and final) advance made by the forces of the axis in El Alamein, Egypt, located about 106 kilometres of Alexandria. The battle came to a standstill but had managed to stop the German advanced to Alexandria. -
STALINGRADO BATTLE
It was a German offensive to capture Stalingrad. In an attempt by Germany to take the oil wells of the Caucasus. A massive bombardment of Luftwaffe reduced much of the city to rubble while the ground troops of the axis were to take the city building by building. A great Soviet counter-offensive pocketed to the 6th Army German of the general Paulus inside Stalingrad, not managing to escape the siege by Hitler's refusal to renounce the conquest of the city. -
ENGLAND DEFEAT GERMAN IN THE SECOND BATTLE OF THE ALAMEIN
It was the turning point of the war in North Africa, during the Second World War. The Allied victory ended the German wishes take possession of Egypt, which was a British protectorate, and gain control of the Suez Canal, as well as the oil of Middle East. After this battle, the German forces had to withdraw through the North coast of Africa, suffering at all times the British persecution led by the General Montgomery, although many managed to escape to Sicily. -
URRS DEFEAT GERMANY IN THE BATTLE OF STALINGRADO
This battle that began in 1942 for control of the city of Stalingrad between German and Russian forces, is considered to be the bloodiest battle of World War II. The severe defeat of the nazis and their allies in the city meant a key point and of severe change in the final results of the war, represents the beginning of the end of Nazism, the Wehrmacht would never recover its former strength nor you would get more strategic victories on the Eastern Front. -
CONFERENCE OF THE ALLIES IN CASABLANCA
Conference (in Morocco) held in order to plan a European strategy for the operation Allied during the Second World War. This Conference was attended by Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Charles de Gaulle and Henri Giraud. Are according to which accountability should be sought without conditions by the axis powers. It was also agreed to give aid to the Soviet Union, the invasion of Sicily and Italy and recognize the leadership in a way joint free France. -
THE ALLIES INVADED ITALY
Finished the campaign in North Africa, the allies decide that the next step should be the invasion of Italy, from Sicily. British and American troops landed to the South-East of the island and occupy it in little more than one month. The Allied invasion of the Italian territory leads to, the King of Italia Víctor Emmanuel III ordered the arrest of Mussolini and appoints Marshal Badoglio new President of the country. This signed peace with the allies in secret to not alert to Hitler. -
MUSSOLINI LIBERATION
Hitler discovers the Italian treachery and ordered the occupation of Italy. Before this counter-offensive the Allied forces have to fight hard against the German troops that repel the landing to be able to leave the beaches of Salerno. Meanwhile, German paratroopers get free Mussolini and Hitler placed as head of the new fascist state in Northern Italy, with capital in Milan. The allies fought a series of battles against the nazis before releasing Italy. -
TEHERAN CONFERENCE
Meeting between the leaders Iósif Stalin, Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt, forming the side of the allies. It was the first Conference between the big three (the Soviet Union, the United States, and the United Kingdom) in which Stalin was present. It succeeded the Cairo Conference and was followed by the Yalta Conference and the Potsdam Conference. The main discussion focused on the opening of a second front in Western Europe. -
D-DAY
It started with the landings in Normandy (operation Neptune). An airborne assault carried out by 1200 aircraft preceded an amphibious landing that involved 5000 ships. 160 000 soldiers crossed the English channel from England to France and towards the end of August the Allied troops in French soil were more than three million. This operation was directed by general Eisenhower. -
UNITED STATES DEFEAT JAPAN IN THE BATTLE OF GUAM
It was a clash between American and Japanese troops in the Pacific Ocean. The objective of the Americans was to take the island of Guam, as a reference point for the invasion of the Philippines, Taiwan and the Ryukyu Islands. After the American victory Guam became a base of operations for the allies. Five large air fields, from where the B-29 bombers were able to fly up to military targets in the Western Pacific and in Japan were built. -
FINISHED OF THE OVERLORD OPERATION
The allies were not able to achieve the objectives planned for the first day, but yes secured a beachhead that expanded with tenacity in the days following the capture of the port of Cherbourg and Caen. The Germans tried to a failed counterattack that left 50 000 German soldiers trapped in the so-called bag of Falaise. the allies launched an invasion of southern France, Operation Dragoon, and on 25 August was the liberation of Paris. -
YUGOSLAV AND SOVIETS FREE BELGRADE
It was a military operation in which Belgrade was freed from the occupation of the Wehrmacht German through a joint manoeuvre of the Yugoslav Partisans and the Soviet Red Army. Both forces developed separate but coordinated operations that got its goal to dislodge the Germans from the Belgrade area. The operation involved the liberation of much of Serbia and the start of the final withdrawal of the Germans in the Balkans. -
HUNGARIANS AND SOVIETS FREE BUDAPEST
It was a battle that resulted in the capture of Budapest by the Red Army. The city was an important center of central Europe, in addition to being the capital of the last ally who was left to nazi Germany. His position was also a barrier that protected the southern regions of the German Reich and the latest oil reserves which were in German hands. It was one of the most important victories of the allies on their way to Berlin. It was one of the more bloody battles of the Eastern front -
UNITED STATES DEFEAT GERMAN IN THE BATTLE OF THE ARDENNES
It was a major German offensive through the dense forests and mountains of the Ardennes region of Belgium and more particularly in Wallonia, France and Luxembourg. The aim was to divide the Allied forces forzandolas to sign a peace treaty. At the beginning was successful but more terde by natural conditions and reinforcements sealed the failure of the offensive and lost many troops and material. It was one of the bloodiest battles of the second world war. -
YALTAS CONFERENCE
It was the meeting between Iósif Stalin, Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt, as heads of Government of the USSR, the United Kingdom and United States, respectively. Is agreement: a Europe liberated, the Division of Germany into four zones for the allies and France, the UN was created, intervention Soviet in the Pacific in exchange for Sakhalin and Kuril Islands, monetary compensation to Germany, and the situation of Poland. -
UNITED STATES DEFEAT JAPAN IN THE BATTLE OF IWO JIMA
Known as codename "Operation Detachment", it is one of the bloodiest fighting of the second world war. At the end of the fighting, the Americans managed to conquer the island and control their important fields of aviation. However, during the bloody battle they encountered extreme resistance from the Japanese, resistance involving the death of most of its fighters. -
THE SOVIET UNION TROOPS TAKE PARIS
It was the last major battle in Europe, after the start of a major offensive of the Soviet Union on the city German defenders surrendered the city to the Red Army. During the day the battle, due to the lack of preparation and material of the Germans, the Soviets advanced quickly through the streets of Berlin until you reach the center of the city, where matches were fought melee and House by House. -
HITLER´S SUICIDE
Hitler established their residence in the Chancellery bunker, where served as a Third Reich in process of disintegration, since the allies were advancing by East and West alike. By the end of April, the Soviet forces had entered Berlin.hitler committed suicide by a shot in the head with his wife, Eva Braun, who resorted to poisoning with cyanide. The two bodies were incinerated. -
GERMANY SURRENDERS TO THE ALLIES
The head of the State more of the high command of the German armed forces, general Alfred Jodl, signed the Act of unconditional surrender for all German forces to the allies. But not before the Russians who forced them to sign the same Treaty of peace. All German troops scattered throughout Europe surrendered and tried to flee to the areas occupied by the English and Americans. Germany is divided into four parts as it acordo Yaltas Conference. -
UNITED STATES DEFEAT JAPAN IN THE BATTLE OF OKINAWA
Whose code name was operation Iceberg, was the largest amphibious assault in the Pacific war. The battle has been called Typhoon of steel by the ferocity of the fighting. The battle turned out to be one that had more casualties, civilian and military, throughout the second world war. The main objective of the operation was to seize the great island of Okinawa only 550 km away from Japan as a base of operations. -
POSTDAM CONFERENCE
The participants were the Soviet Union, United Kingdom and United States, the most powerful of the allies who defeated the powers of the axis in the second world war. The heads of Government of these three Nations were Iósif Stalin, Prime Minister Winston Churchill and President Harry S. Truman. Is acordo Germany, postwar order management, the study of the effects of war and peace treaties. -
UNITED STATES LAUNCHES A NUCLEAR BOMB TO HIROSHIMA
At the time of the bombing, Hiroshima was a city of some industrial and military significance. At the time of the attack, it is estimated that there were approximately 255,000 people. The LITTLE BOY was dropped over the city to force Japan to sign peace and so do not suffer lower. The effect of the bomb was devastating, killing thousands and thousands of civilians. -
UNITED STATES LAUNCHES NUCLEAR BOMB TO NAGASAKI
The city of Nagasaki had been one of the largest in the southern part of Japan ports and had great importance during the war by its large industrial activity, including the production of artillery, ships, military equipment, as well as other war materials. The pump was launched like Hiroshima to force the Japanese Government to sign peace. This pump caused thousands upon thousands of deaths and leave the infected radiation area. -
JAPAN SURRENDERS TO UNITED STATES
The Empire of Japan accepted the Potsdam Declaration signed by United States, United Kingdom, Republic of China and the Soviet Union, after the explosion of two nuclear bombs. The peace treaty was signed at the USS MISSURI, although continuous having some military resistance, general Douglas McArthur managed to eradicate it. Japan led under American protection
