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The invasion of Poland, also known as the September Campaign, the 1939 Defensive War, and the Polish Campaign, was an attack on the Republic of Poland by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union that marked the beginning of the Second World War. World War. -
In fulfillment of their commitment to ensure the integrity of Poland's borders, Britain and France declare war on Germany on September 3, 1939. The Polish army is defeated within weeks of the German invasion, and Warsaw surrenders on September 28. September 1939. -
The name of the operation means "Exercise on the Weser", this being a German river. At 4:15 a.m. local time, "Weser time", on April 9, 1940, "Weser day", Germany invaded Denmark and Norway, supposedly to protect them from possible attack by France and the United Kingdom. -
Nazi Germany intends to defeat Belgium, Holland and Luxembourg with a lightning attack, called Blitzkrieg. The Belgian army discovers German attack plans when, in early 1940, a German plane crash-lands in Belgium. For this reason, Hitler delays the attack. -
Germany attacked the West on May 10, 1940. Paris, the French capital, fell to the Germans on June 14, 1940. As part of the armistice agreement that France signed with Germany on June 22, Germany occupied the North of that country and its entire Atlantic coast up to the border with Spain.06 -
Between September 7, 1940 and May 21, 1941, sixteen British cities were attacked with at least 100 long tons of explosives. ... More than a million homes were destroyed and an estimated 40,000 civilians lost their lives, almost half of them in London. -
The Battle of Greece began on October 28, 1940 with the invasion of Greece by fascist Italy and ended with the fall of Kalamata, in the Peloponnese, on April 28, 1941. ... Italy invades Greece on April 28 October 1940 from Albania, a country he had previously occupied in April 1939. -
It took place in the North African desert, from June 10, 1940 to May 16, 1943. It included campaigns in Italian Libya and the Kingdom of Egypt (Western Desert), in the French Protectorate of Morocco and French Algeria. (known to the Allies as Operation Torch) and in French Tunisia. -
In order to secure the Balkan flank and anticipate the attack on the Soviet Union planned for June 22, 1941, Hitler ordered the invasion of Yugoslavia and Greece. On April 6, 1941, the Germans and Italians attacked, supported by units from Bulgaria, Hungary, and Romania. -
On Sunday, June 22, 1941, at 3:15 a.m., the Wehrmacht attacked the Soviet Union. Without a declaration of war, without taking into account the non-aggression treaty, the so-called Hitler-Stalin Pact. German Wehrmacht troops invade the Soviet Union. (June 22, 1941). -
On December 7, 1941, Japan made a surprise attack on the US naval base at Pearl Harbor in the Hawaiian Islands. The surprising Japanese maneuver caused consternation in the United States and led to the entry of this country into the war as part of the Allied side. -
On December 8, 1941, the United States Congress declared war on the Empire of Japan in response to that country's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor the day before. -
The Battle of Midway was an air and naval confrontation that took place in June 1942 in the waters of the Pacific Ocean, between forces from Japan and the United States. The victory of the Americans put a stop to the Japanese expansion in Oceania, which until then seemed unstoppable. -
The battle would begin on August 23, 1942 and pitted the Red Army of the Soviet Union against the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany and their Axis allies for control of the city, which had an important military industry and was established as an important railway communications hub. -
The Casablanca conference was held at the Hotel Anfa, in Casablanca (Morocco), which was then a French protectorate. The conference was held from January 14 to 24, 1943, with the aim of planning a European strategy for the Allied operation during World War II. -
The Battle of Stalingrad was a war between Soviet and German troops for control of Stalingrad, present-day Volgograd, in what is now Russia. It began on August 23, 1942 and ended on February 2, 1943, after the Germans surrendered to the armies of the Soviet Union. -
The Allied invasion of Italy was the Allied amphibious landing on mainland Italy that took place from 3 September 1943, during the Italian campaign of World War II. The operation was undertaken by General Sir Harold Alexander's 15th Army Group (comprising General Mark W. -
The Armistice with Italy was an armistice, signed on September 3 and publicly declared on September 8, 1943, during World War II, between Italy and the Allied armed forces, which had been occupying the extreme south of the country, which led Italian capitulation. -
The Tehran Conference was a meeting between U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin in Tehran, Iran, between November 28 and December 1, 1943. -
On June 6, 1944, known as "D-Day", the Allies began the landing of an army of more than 150,000 soldiers (73,000 Americans and 83,000 British and Canadians) on the beaches of Normandy. Known as Operation "Overlord", the allied invasion of France had begun. -
The battle was fought on the island of Guam in the Pacific Ocean between July 21 and August 10, 1944. The battle ended in American victory, making Guam a base for further military action. -
The Battle of Normandy, codenamed Operation Overlord, was the Allied military operation during World War II that culminated in the liberation of Western European territories occupied by Nazi Germany. -
After the Axis invaded Yugoslavia in April 1941, Belgrade became the capital of occupied Serbia. Finally on October 20, Belgrade had been completely liberated by the Yugoslav and Soviet forces. -
Soviet forces liberate Budapest on February 13, 1945. At the time of liberation, more than 100,000 Jews remained in the city. -
Aftermath of the Battle of the Bulge
The failure in the Ardennes condemned Germany to defeat in World War II. From then on, he could no longer launch new offensives and only went back day after day until Hitler's suicide and unconditional surrender on May 8, 1945. -
The Yalta conference was the meeting held before the end of World War II (February 4-11, 1945) by Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill and Franklin D. It is often considered the beginning of the Cold War. -
According to historian Samuel E. Morison, US forces suffered 24,480 casualties, of which 4,197 were directly killed in the fighting, 19,189 wounded, and 418 missing. Subsequently, 1,401 wounded died as a result of the injuries received. -
It began on April 16, 1945 after the start of a major Soviet offensive on the capital city of the Third Reich, and ended on May 2, 1945, when the German defenders surrendered the city to the Red Army. -
The death of Adolf Hitler, leader of the National Socialist German Workers' Party (1921-1945) and Führer and Reichskanzler of the Third Reich (1933-1945), occurred on April 30, 1945 in the Führerbunker in Berlin; Hitler committed suicide by shooting himself in the head with his wife Eva Braun. -
Berlin surrendered to the Soviet forces on May 2, 1945. The German armed forces surrender unconditionally in the west on May 7 and in the east on May 9, 1945. May 8, 1945 is proclaimed Day of the Victory in Europe (VE Day). -
On the ground, US forces lost at least 225 tanks and many LVTs, while eliminating 27 Japanese tanks and 743 artillery pieces (including mortars, howitzers, and anti-aircraft guns), some of them destroyed by air and naval bombardment, but the most of them destroyed by the artillery of US troops. -
The Potsdam Conference was a meeting held in Potsdam (near Berlin), Germany between July 17 and August 2, 1945, at the Cecilienhof Palace. -
On August 6, 1945, 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. Approximately 80,000 people are killed as a direct result of the blast, and another 35,000 are injured. -
On August 9, 1945, a second atom bomb is dropped on Japan by the United States, at Nagasaki, resulting finally in Japan's unconditional surrender. The devastation wrought at Hiroshima was not sufficient to convince the Japanese War Council to accept the Potsdam Conference's demand for unconditional surrender. -
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 Potsdam Declaration signed by the United States, the United Kingdom, the Republic of China and the Union Soviet.