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Invasion of Poland
The German invasion of Poland began on September 1, 1939. It has been considered the trigger of the Second World War.On September 1, 1939, exactly 70 years ago, Germany invaded Poland. In the two years that followed the invasion, Hitler managed to annex most of the European continent, from north to south. -
German offensive to the east
Thousands of British soldiers looking to return to their country after being surrounded by the Germans in May 1940. They only maintained a narrow bridge in the French port of Dunkirk. they were at the mercy of the bombings while they waited desperately for a ship with which they could cross the sea. -
Invasion of the USSR
With the code name "Operation Barbarossa", Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, in what was the largest German military operation of the Second World War. -
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military offensive by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on the morning of Sunday, December 7, 1941. -
American victory at Midway
The Battle of Midway was a naval confrontation that took place in 1942 in the Pacific Ocean between American and Japanese forces, during World War II, six months after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, which marked the beginning of the war in the Pacific . -
Alied landings in north Africa
Operation Torch was the landing and advance towards Tunisia of the Anglo-American troops in the Second World War during the campaign in North Africa, which began on November 8, 1942. -
Italy Surrenders
The armistice with italy
(In war, an armistice is the suspension of hostilities agreed between belligerent peoples or armies.)it was an armistice, signed on September 3 and publicly declared on September 8, 1943, during the Second World War, between Italy and the Allied armed forces, which had occupied the extreme south of the country, which led to the Italian capitulation. -
Alied landings in Normandy
On June 6, 1944, known as "D-day", the allies began the disembarkation of the army more than 150,000 soldiers (73,000 Americans and 83,000 Britons and Canadians) on the beaches of Normandy. The so-called Operation "Overlord", the Allied invasion of France had begun. -
Germany surrender
The capitulation of Germany was carried out in two phases. The first was held a week after Hitler's suicide (April 30, 1945). Before committing suicide, he appointed Admiral Karl Dönitz as successor who tried unsuccessfully to accept a partial surrender to the British and Americans. -
Atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were nuclear attacks ordered by Harry S. Truman, president of the United States, against the Empire of Japan. -
Japan surrenders
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 Declaration of Potsdam signed by the United States, the United Kingdom, the Republic of China and the Union Soviet
