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This was an attack on the Republic of Poland by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union which marked the beginning of World War II. Millions of Polish people were killed. This attack happened right after the German–Soviet non-aggression pact. -
On September 3, 1939, in response to Hitler’s invasion of Poland, Britain and France, both allies of the overrun nation declare war on Germany. In response the British ocean liner Athenia, was sunk by a German U-30 submarine that had assumed the liner was armed and belligerent. -
Operation Weserübung was Germany's assault on Denmark and Norway during the Second World War and the opening operation of the Norwegian Campaign. German troops invaded Norway on 9 April 1940, planning to capture the King and the Government in order to force the country to surrender. -
SS authorities establish the Auschwitz camp. The Auschwitz concentration camp complex was the largest of its kind established by the Nazi regime. It included three main camps, all of which deployed incarcerated prisoners at forced labor. -
The Lend-Lease Act had given President Roosevelt virtually unlimited authority to direct material aid such as ammunition, tanks, airplanes, trucks, and food to the war effort in Europe without violating the nation's official position of neutrality. Roosevelt wanted congress to pass the Lend Lease Act because he wanted to help the “allied” countries in case the US ever entered the war. -
Isolationists claimed that U.S. aid for Great Britain would increase the likelihood of actual American involvement in World War II. Internationalists claimed that it would make U.S. intervention less likely. Many public figures gave speeches and radio addresses swaying the people in opposite directions. -
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States against the naval base at Pearl Harbor. After this attack Congress approved the recognition of the state of war between the US and Japan. -
The Normandy landings were the landing operations and associated airborne operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord. The D-Day invasion is significant in history for the role it played in World War II. It marked the turn of the tide for the control maintained by Nazi Germany; less than a year after the invasion, the Allies formally accepted Nazi Germany's surrender. -
The United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6 and 9 August 1945, respectively. The two bombings killed between 129,000 and 226,000 people, most of whom were civilians, and remain the only use of nuclear weapons in armed conflict.
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The United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6 and 9 August 1945, respectively. The two bombings killed between 129,000 and 226,000 people, most of whom were civilians, and remain the only use of nuclear weapons in armed conflict.
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The United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6 and 9 August 1945, respectively. The two bombings killed between 129,000 and 226,000 people, most of whom were civilians, and remain the only use of nuclear weapons in armed conflict. -
The Soviet forces marched into Poland and got to Auschwitz, Birkenau and other German concentration camps and liberated over 7000 prisoners. Their march through mid-january ment the breakthrough of another great German territory which further meant the end of the war. It was a historic events because the prisoners inside these concentration camps were mutilated, exploded and tested. Many of the free were ill or dying.