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Germany invades Polland
As Adolf Hitler try's to take back the territory he lost and ultimately rule Poland.The German invasion of Poland was a primer on how Hitler intended to wage war–what would become known as the “blitzkrieg” strategy.Once the German forces had demolished their way through, devastating territory, soldiers moved in, taking out any remaining resistance.The Polish army made some very bad strategic decisions early in the war -
Germans enter Paris
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill had tried for days to convince the French government to hang on, not to sue for peace, that America would enter the war and come to its aid.By the time German tanks rolled into Paris, 2 million Parisians had already fled. The United States did not remain completely idle, though. -
Battle of Britain
The defeated French signed an agreement to stop WWll. Britain was a lone wolf to the power of Germany’s military forces, which had conquered most of Western Europe in less than two months. For most of Jul y they waited for British surrender and attacked only in August.For a time the advantage seemed to go a little bit in favor of the Germans, but a combination of bad intelligence and British attacks on Berlin led the Luftwaffe to change attacks on London. -
Lend-Lease
The Lend-Lease policy, properly know by the titled "An Act to Promote the Defense of the United State was a program under which the United States supplied Free to France, the United Kingdom, the Republic of China, and later the Soviet Union and other Allied nations with supply such as oil, food, etc. between 1941 and August 1945.This program ended the United States pretense and was a decisive step away from non-interventionist policy. -
Pearl Harbor Bombing
On December 7, 1941, hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor. The chaos lasted just two hours, but it was devastating.More than 2,000 Americans soldiers and sailors died in the attack, and another 1,000 were wounded.Right after the attack, President Franklin D. Roosevelt asked Congress to go and declare war on China.The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise, but Japan and the United States had been showing signs toward war for decades. -
Germany Declares war on the U.S
The bombing of Pearl Harbor surprised even Germany. Although Hitler had made an oral agreement with his Axis partner Japan that Germany would join a war against the United States, he was uncertain as to how the war would be engaged.Von Ribbentrop feared that the addition of another antagonist, the United States, would overwhelm the German war effort.But Hitler thought otherwise. He was convinced that the United States would soon beat him to the punch and declare war on Germany. -
Battle of Midway
Six months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States defeated Japan in one of the most important naval battles of World War II. Thanks in part to huge advances in code breaking, the United States was able to counter Japan’s planned attack of its little remaining aircraft carriers, inflicting permanent damage on the Japanese Navy. The intelligence interplay would be critical to the outcome of the battle and began many weeks before the clash of arms. -
Battle of Stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad was the successful Soviet defense of the city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) in the U.S.S.R. during World War II. The Battle of Stalingrad was one of the bloodiest battles in history, with combined military and civilian casualties of nearly 2 million.This huge battle is justly considered a turning point in the war on the Eastern Front and one of the most crucial engagements of World War II. The invading Germans saw the conquest of Stalingrad as important to campaign. -
D-Day
D-Day, when some 156,000 American, British and Canadian forces landed on five beaches along a 50-mile stretch of the very strong fortified coast of France’s Normandy region.By late August 1944, all of northern France had been liberated, and by the following spring the Allies had defeated the Germans.The Normandy landings have been called the beginning of the end of war in Europe. -
Atomic Bombs Dropped
The United States becomes the first and only nation to use atomic weaponry during wartime when it drops an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Though the dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan marked the end of World War II, many historians argue that it also ignited the Cold War.Since 1940, the United States had been working on developing an atomic weapon, after having been warned by Albert Einstein that the Nazi was already trying to research into nuclear weapons.
