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It was the trigger for the Second World War in Europe and ended the Second Polish Republic.
The invasion of Poland was the first of the military aggressions that Hitler's Germany would undertake. -
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According to the bilateral treaties that the Polish government had signed with each of the two allied powers, they had to assist Poland militarily in the event of receiving a German attack. They did not. -
Germany used the Blitzkrieg tactic successfully against Poland (attacked in September 1939), Denmark (April 1940), Norway (April 1940), Belgium (May 1940), the Netherlands (May 1940), Luxembourg (May 1940), France (May 1940), Yugoslavia (April 1941), and Greece (April 1941).
It usually began with an air attack, then the entry of troops aboard tanks and infantry units, ready to occupy enemy territory. -
Germany invaded Norway on April 9, 1940, simultaneously attacking the country's coastal cities, from Narvik in the far north to Oslo in the south. Narvik was the scene of bloody battles between the German forces and the Allies, which landed the troops coming by sea in support of the Norwegians. -
the set of air battles fought in British skies and over the English Channel, between July and October 1940, when Germany sought to destroy the Royal British Air Force (RAF) in order to achieve the air superiority necessary for an invasion of Great Britain, Operation Sea Lion. -
Also known as the German invasion of the Soviet Union was the code name for the invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany and some of its Axis allies, which started on Sunday, 22 June 1941, during World War II. -
The forecloruse on Japanese oil imports decreed by US President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in response to the Japanese aggressions in China, which had taken place since 1937. -
In October 1942, the Germans continued their offensive. But this was answered with a strong reaction on the part of these, who had withdrawn to El Alamein. With this action, the British sought to permanently dislodge the Axis troops from North Africa. -
It was a decisive confrontation between the German forces and the Soviet armies for the city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) between June 1942 and February 1943, during the course of World War II.
Stalingrad meant the end of German hopes of capturing the Caucasus and the Volga. -
On July 24, 1943, in Rome, the Great Fascist Council voted the removal of Benito Mussolini from all his posts. Shortly after, he met with King Victor Emmanuel III and upon leaving the meeting he was arrested. The Italian "old order" had withdrawn its support and was preparing to offer him as a scapegoat to save itself. -
Berlin surrendered to the Soviet forces on May 2, 1945. The German armed forces surrendered unconditionally in the west on May 7 and in the east on May 9, 1945. -
The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were two nuclear attacks ordered by Harry S. Truman, President of the United States, against the Empire of Japan, totaling some 246,000 deaths, although only half died on the days of the bombings. -